Note 121 — Epigrammes.
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Daniel, I believe: [Malone's Manuscript note in Bodlean copy. See Epigram 30. G.] Mr. Dyce adds here, "I am sorry to believe that by Dacus (who is spoken of with great contempt in Epigram xxx.) our author means Samuel Daniel: but the following lines in that very pleasing writer's Complaint of Rosamond (which was first printed in 1592) certainly would seem to be alluded to here,
"Ah beauty syren, faire enchanting good, Sweet, silent rhetorique of perswading eyes, Dumb eloquence, whose power doth moue the blood More then the words or wisdom of the wise, &c.
1611, p. 39,—Daniel's Certaine Small Works, &c. 1611.") G.