5 Whereupon it made this threne ;] This funeral fong. So, in Kendal's poems, 1577: "Of verses, tbrenes, and epitaphs, "Full fraught with teares of teene." A book entitled David's Threanes, by J. Heywood, was published in 1620. Two years afterwards it was reprinted under the title of David's Tears: the former title probably was difcarded as obfolete. For this information I am indebted to Dr. Farmer. MALONE. ROM off a hill whofe concave womb re-worded Upon her head a platted hive of straw, This beautiful poem was firft printed in 1609, with our authour's name, at the end of the quarto edition of his Sonnets. I wonder that it has not attracted the attention of fome English painter, the opening being uncommonly picturefque. The figures, however, of the lady and the old man should be ftanding, not fitting, by the river fide; Shakspeare reclining on a hill. MALONE. 2 whose concave womb re-worded] Repeated; re-echoed. The fame verb is found in Hamlet: "Bring me to the teft, "And I the matter will re-word." MALONE. 3-from a fiftering vale,]This word is again employed in Pericles, 16098 "That even her art fifiers the natural rofes." It is not, I believe, used by any other authour. MALONE. 4 My fpirits to attend this double voice accorded,] The poet meant, I think, that the word spirits should be pronounced as if written fprights. MALONE. 5 Storming her world with forrow's wind and rain.] So, in Julius Cæfar : 66 -and the ftate of a man, "Like to a little kingdom, fuffers then "The nature of an infurrection." Again, in Hamlet e -Remember thee? "Ay, thou poor ghoft, while memory holds a feat Again, in King Lear: "Strives in his little world of man to out-corn "The to-and-fro-confli&ting wind and rain." Sorrows wind and rain are fighs and tears. Thus, in Anteng and Cleopatra: "We cannot call her winds and waters, fighs and tears." The modern editions read corruptedly : Storming her words with ferrews, wind, &c. MALONE. Whereon |