Footnotes

The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,

Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.

Waller: Verses upon his Divine Poesy.

[39:3] Westward the course of empire takes its way.—Berkeley: On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America.

Had in him those brave translunary things

That the first poets had.

(Said of Marlowe.) To Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy.

For that fine madness still he did retain

Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.

(Said of Marlowe.) To Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy.

The coast was clear.[40:1]

Nymphidia.

When faith is kneeling by his bed of death,

And innocence is closing up his eyes,

Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over,

From death to life thou might'st him yet recover.

Ideas. An Allusion to the Eaglets. lxi.