Unsphere, draw from his sphere or station.
The immortal mind. Plato treats of the immortality of the soul chiefly in the Phaedo. The demon, with Socrates, is the attendant genius of an individual; with Plato it is more general; and the assigning the demons to the four elements is a notion of the later Platonists.
Sceptered pall = royal robe.
Presenting Thebes, &c. These lines represent the subjects of tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the great tragic poets of Athens.
Musaeus, here for some bard of the distant past, generally. Musaeus, in mythology, is a bard of Thrace, and son of Orpheus.
Half-told the story of Cambuscan bold. The Squire's Tale in Chaucer, which is broken off in the middle.
Camball, Cambuscan's son. Algarsife and Canacé, his wife and daughter.
Frounced. Used of hair twisted and curled.
The Attic Boy = Cephalus, loved by Eos, the Morning.
A shower still = a soft shower.