Note 1. From Poems: In Divers Humours, 1598. Perhaps no poet of this great period is considered with so regretful a recollection as the author of this immortal lyric. “Our first-born Keats,” Mr. Swinburne names him, which Prof. Schelling explains as “probably in allusion to his proficiency in the heptasyllabic trochaics of this poem, a favorite measure with Keats.” There is something I think more internal and personal than the mere technique of his verses which makes him the literary father of Crashaw, and literary grandfather of Keats; for there are, perhaps, no three English poets, who, in a certain intense personal quality, clothed in the rich garments of an abundant vocabulary, soared so high in the same realms of melodious diction as these three. A longer version was included in the Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music, appended to The Passionate Pilgrim, 1599. A collection, made by the piratical publisher, William Jaggard, of some genuine sonnets, etc., by Shakespeare, and other writers, all credited, by the title page, to Shakespeare. The present poem was “conveyed” with Poems in Divers Humours and appended to The Encomion of Lady Pecunia: or the Praise of Money, the last book of verses written by Barnfield. [back]
Note 2. Tereu, Tereu: for the meaning of this cry see the note to Sidney’s The Nightingale (No. 79). [back]
