NOTES ON MILTON

(Continued from Vol. i., p. 387.) *L'Allegro.* On l. 6. (D.):— "Where triumphant Darkness hovers With a sable wing, that covers Brooding Horror." *Crashaw*, Psalm xxiii. On l. 11. (G.) Drayton has this expression in his *Heroical Epistles*:— "Find me out one so young, *so fair, so free*." *King John to Matilda.* and afterwards,— "Leave that accursed cell; There let black Night and Melancholy dwell." On l. 24. (G.) Most probably from a couplet in Burton's *Anatomy of Melancholy*:— "And ever and anon she thinks upon the man, That was so fine, so fair, *so blith, so debonaire*." P. 3. Sc. 2. p. 6…