Which opes at will a paradise on earth.
Stanza xiii. line 8.
An ancient commentator says this line is taken with little alteration from one in an ancient book of romances.
Yet might the observing eye of things concealed
Conjecture safely, from the charms revealed.
Stanza xiv. lines 7 and 8.
Quæque latent, meliora putat.
Ovid.
Angelic visions, creatures of the sky.
Stanza xv. line 7.
This may mean nothing more than its most obvious construction would imply; but such was the passion for Platonic doctrines in Italy, that I cannot help suspecting Ariosto of some such allusion in this line.
A springe is planted in Rogero’s way,
On all sides did she speak, smile, sing, or move.
Stanza xvi. lines 1 and 2.
Illam, quicquid agit, quoquo vestigia movit,
Componit furtim subsequiturque decor.
Where
Cleopatra feasted with the Latian lord.
Stanza xx. lines 3 and 4.
The Latian lord evidently means Mark Antony; but there is some discussion among the old critics, as to whether he was
