Note 1. Silence in lave, etc.: “This stanza was,” says a note in the Oxford Ed. of Raleigh’s Works, “by some strange anachronism, current about seventy years ago (1759), among the circles of fashions, as the production of the late celebrated Earl of Chesterfield.” This stanza is also quoted in the dedication to one of Fletcher’s plays, 1652, as written by “an ingenious person of quality.” (Dyce’s Edition, vol. viii., p. 106.) [back]
