HWITATATA KF 10017 HARVARL COLLEGE that BEQUEST OF JUNE 26, 1930 George Larrance, Dorset Street, London. ARGUMENT. The Knight, by damnable Magician, But now, t'observe romantique method, ARGUMENT, ver. 1. and 2. Thus altered 1674, restored 1704. The Knight being clapp'd by th' heels in prison, The last unhappy expedition. v. 3. Love bring's his action on the case] An action on the case, is a writ brought against any one, for an offence done without force, and by law not specially provided for. See Manley's Interpreter ; Jacob's Law Dictionary; Bailey's Dictionary. v.5. How he receives, &c.] How he revi's, &c. In the two first editions of 1664. CANTO, v. 1. But now, t observe, &c.] The beginning of this Second Part may perhaps seem strange and abrupt to those who do not know, that it was written on purpose in imitation of Virgil, who begins Exchang'd to love's more gentle style, To let our reader breathe a-while: In which that we may be as brief as Is possible, by way of preface. Is 't not enough to make one strange, That some men's fancies should ne'er change, 10 But make all people do, and say, The same things still the self-same way? Some writers make all ladies purloin'd, And knights pursuing like a whirlwind; Others make all their knights, in fits Of jealousy, to lose their wits; the 4th Book of his Æneids in the very same manner, At Regina gravi, v. 2. Altered to Let rusty steel 1674, 1684, &c. to trusty steel 1700, v. 3. And the three following lines stood in the two first editions of And unto love turn we our style, To let our readers breathe u-while, By this time tir'd with th' horrid sounds, Of blows, and cuts, and blood, and wounds. v. 9. Is't not enough to make one strange) So some speak in the West v. 10. That some men's fancies] That a man's fancy, in the two v. 13, 14. Some writers make all ladies purloin'd-And knights pur- suing like a whirlwind] Alluding, probably, to Don Quixote's account of |
