IN DACUM.[121] 45.

[Footnote 121: Daniel, I believe: [Malone's Manuscript note in Bodlean

copy. See Epigram 30. G.] Mr. Dyce adds here, "I am sorry to believe

that by Dacus (who is spoken of with great contempt in Epigram xxx.)

our author means Samuel Daniel: but the following lines in that very

pleasing writer's _Complaint of Rosamond_ (which was first printed in

1592) certainly would seem to be alluded to here,

"Ah beauty syren, faire enchanting good,

Sweet, silent rhetorique of perswading eyes,

_Dumb eloquence_, whose power doth moue the blood

More then the words or wisdom of the wise, &c.

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