[190] The word "enlights" is, I believe, of our poet's coinage, analogically formed from "light," as "enlighten" from "lighten."—Wakefield.
[191] Sir Robert Howard's poem against the Fear of Death:
And neither gives increase, nor brings decay.
[192] There is very little poetical expression from this line to ver. 450. It is only mere prose fringed with rhyme. Good sense in a very prosaic style; reasoning, not poetry.—Warton.
[193] "Joins with quality" for "joins with men of rank" is a vulgar colloquialism.
In sing-song Durfey, Oldmixon or me,
was the original reading of the manuscript.
[195] This couplet is succeeded by two more lines in the manuscript:
And while to thoughts refined they make pretence,
Hate all that's common, ev'n to common sense.