Note 1. From Perimedes the Blacksmith, 1588. In Morley’s First Book of Madrigals (1594) there is a madrigal with the stanza:
April is in my mistress’ face,
And July in her eyes hath place;
Within her bosom is September,
But in her heart a cold December.
Oliphant surmises, in the Musa Madrigalesca, p. 74, that both are translated from a foreign original. [back]
Note 2. Lines 17, 18, My harvest in the grass bears grain, and, The rock will wear, washed with a winter’s rain, are proverbs. Compare the opening lines of Greene’s Doralicia’s Ditty:
In time we see that silver drops
The craggy stones make soft, etc.
and also the stanza in a poem to which Prof. Schelling calls attention, signed “M. T.,” published in The Paradise of Dainty Devises, beginning:
