.  /'^  A  LL  here  my  varUi  *,  I'll  tmErm  again  :j      Pan.  Will  thi?  gecr  ne'er  be  mended  ?


XS'hy  Ihould  I  war  without  the  wal^      Trot.  The  Greeks  are  (Irons,  and  Ikiliiil  Co  their


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ftrcii^th.
I  Mr.  Pope  (after  Dryden)  infomis  us,  that  the  ftory  of  Trotlus  and  Crcflida  was  originally  tii^
work  oi  one  Lo.hos,  a  Lombard  ;  but  Dr^'dcn  goes  yet  hiithcr.  He  declares  it  to  have  been  writ-
te-i  in  Lai  in  \errr,  and  thai  Chjucer  tranfUted  it.  Lollius  was  a  hifloriograpfacr  of  Urbioo  in  Italy.
6  lukfprare  received  the  grcatcfl  part  of  his  materials  for  the  ftru&iireof  this  play  from  the  Troy  BoAe
cf  Lvdg'.tc,  printed  in  1513.  L>dgate  was  00c  much  more  than  a  tranflator  oi  Ouido  of  Coluropna,
-u'-.ouas  of  McHija  in  Siciiv,  and  wrote  hU  HiJlory  of  Troy  in  La:in,  after  Dit'tys  Cretenfis,  and
DjivTs  Phrygius,  in  1287.  On  thcfc,  as  Mr.  Warton  obfcnres,  he  co;;7-aftcd  many  v^^w  romantic
inventions,  which  the  tafle  of  his  age  dictated,  and  which  the  connexion  between  Grecian  and  Gothic
fiction  eaf.ly  adiniited  ;  at  the  fame  lime  compichcnding  in  his  plan  the  Theban  and  Argonaotic  fto-
r:rs  from  Ovid,  Statius«  and  Valerius  Flaccus.  *  i.  e,  proud,  difdainful.  3  'XoJulJUl  in  this
fi^ice  means  to  Hi!  nil  there  be  no  room  for  more.  ♦  Tofperre,  ory^r,  from  the  old  Teutonic
\k>u6ft>crin,  lif^nif.ct  tnjiut  vpt  defend  by  bars.  Sec,  i  t,  c.thc  mvantt  what  went  before.  ^  Tbia
word  anciently  fignificd  e  (ervant  orfoou&ao  to  a  knight  or  warrior.
Fierw


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6HAKSPEAR£*«     PLATS.
Fierce  to  their  (kin*  and  to  their  fiercenels  Talbmc ;
Bat  I  am  weaker  than  a  woman's  tear.
Tamer  thaD  fleep,  fonder  ^  thaa  ignorvioe ;
]>f«  valiant  tlian  the  virgin  in  the  night.
And  ikill-lefs  as  unpndtii'd  infincy.
