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65.	An Answer to Some Verses, etc.
	l. 6.	herse] The frame of wood or metal on which the pall was suspended above a coffin or tomb.
66.	l. 19.	barbed steed] A horse fully caparisoned for battle: cf. Rich. III., I. i. 10, and note citing parallel passages in Arden ed. of play.
68.	Song.
	l. 20.	promont] Nares gives an instance of this form from the tragedy of Hoffman, 1631: 'Ile to yon promont's top, and there survey What shipwrackt passengers the Belgique sea Casts from her fomy entrailes by mischance.'
69.	Detraction Execrated.
	l. 29.	correspondency] correspondence had 1709; correspondence, Hazlitt.
	l. 36.	lose't] Hazlitt; lost 1646, and other early edd.; loos'd 1709.
70.	Song.
	l. 20.	The gentle and quick approaches] Cf. second stanza of ''Tis now since I sat down,' etc.
71-73.	Cantilena Politico-Jocunda.
		This was first printed by Hazlitt from Harl. MS. 367, where no author's name is given to it. On the endorsement is a note in the handwriting of Sir Henry Ellis, principal librarian of the British Museum, 1827-36, attributing it to Suckling. The date of the piece is usually assigned to about 1623, from the apparent mention of the Duc de Luynes, who died at Montauban in 1622. Some of the allusions, however, seem to point to a rather later date. In any case. Suckling's authorship is by no means certain, and may be left an open question. In the present edition, the poem has been carefully collated with the original MS.
73, 74.	Verses.
		Printed by Hazlitt from a transcript by Dyce, communicated to Notes and Queries, 1st ser., vol. i., from a small volume of English poetry, temp.