And from the rapture woke!—All fiercely round, &c.
The reader will perhaps perceive, that the above passage, containing the Vision of Ægle, is partially borrowed from the apparition of Clorinda, in Tasso.—Cant. xii.
Is it the Freya, whom your scalds have sung.
Freya is the goddess of love, beauty, and Hymen; the Scandinavian Venus.
O Dog skoinophagous—a tooth for mine!—
Id est, "rope-eating"—a compound adjective borrowed from such Greek as Sir Gawaine might have learned at the then flourishing college of Caerleon. The lessons of education naturally recur to us in our troubles.