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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Jtote ueen of Malta renascentur, quce jam cecidere. J seems but an act of justice to pay some honour to the memory of men whose labours have promoted literature, and enabled othert to eclipse their reputation. Lord Holland. . t. rt chapter{Section 4 Jlotes P. 3. st. i, -- Baldwyn awake, thie penn hath slept to longc, Ferris is dead: state cares staie Sackvill's ease. These were the principal contributors to the Mirror for Magistrates, respecting whom see Appendix, No. 1. P. 3. t. i, -- Theise latter mitts delighte in pleasant songe, Or luvingfi layes mfh mate theire m please In the original M. S. sayes, which I have emendated to layes, conceiving the former to be a mistake of the transcriber: Ley is inaccurately defined a song by Speght, whereas, no two things can be possibly more distinct. M. de la Ravaliere in Poes. du Rot de Nov. styles Lay une sorte d'Elegie, and derives it from du mot Latin Lessus, qui signifie des plaintes; bat the learned, accurate, and lamented Tyrwhitt has shewn the fallacy of such doctrine, in the very elaborate Discourse prefixed to his excellent edition of Chaucer; he there clearly proves that Lai, F. r. Liod, //. Lied, Tuet. and Leoth, Sax. are all to be deduced from the same Gothic original, and appropriately describes the Lay to be a species of serious narrative poetry, of moderate length, in a simple style, and light metre. P. 3. st. ii, -- And in some sorte I guiltye am of blame. It will be seen in the course of the poem, that, the writer palliates rather than defends, the crimes imputed to the unfortunate Mary. ., P. 4. st. iii. sithe -- since. P. 4. st. iii. And now the knightes