Note 71 — HERO AND LEANDER.
Reading edition
"This conceit was suggested to Chapman by a passage in Skelton's Phyllyp Sparowe:
"But whan I was sowing his beke, Methought, my sparow did speke, And opened his prety byll, Saynge, Mayd, ye are in wyll Agayne me for to kyll, Ye prycke me in the head.' —Works, I, 57, ed. Dyce."—Dyce.