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- ¹ Two are especially noteworthy, viz. ‘scarlet ornaments’, of the lips or cheeks (Sen. CXLIII. 6 and Edw. III, ii. 1. 10), and ‘flatter’, applied to the effect of sunlight (Sen. XXXIII. 2 and Edw. III, i. 2. 142).
² In Sonnet LXXXV Shakespeare uses together the rare words ‘compiled’ and ‘filed’ (in the sense of ‘polished’) when he writes of comments of your praise, richly compiled, . . .
And precious phrase by all the Muses filed, Barnfield, in his *Cassandra*, which was ready for publication in January, 1595, writes on the same page of his heroine’s lover that ‘his tongue compiles her praise’, and subsequently of ‘her filed tongue’. The collocation of the expressions is curious. Barnfield’s descriptions in his *Affectionate Shepheard* (1594) of his youth’s ‘amber locks trust up in golden trameis’, ‘which dangle adowne his louely cheekes’, with the poet’s warning of ‘th’ indecencie of mens long haire’, and the appeal to the boy, ‘Cut off thy Locke, and sell it for gold wier’ (*Affectionate Shepheard*, I. ii; II. xix, xxiii), may comment on Shakespeare’s sonnet LXVIII, where the youth is extravagantly complimented on the beauty of his ‘golden tresses’, which ‘show false art what beauty was of yore’. In Shakespeare’s sonnet XCVIII, lines 8–12—
Nor did I wonder at the lily’s white,
Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;
They were but sweet, but figures of delight,
Drawn after you, you pattern of all those,
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