NOTES TO BOOK XI.

[1.—Page 386, stanza xxviii.]

Hung on the music, nor divined the death?

See Book ii. pp. 57, 58, from stanza xxvii. to stanza xxx.

[2.—Page 388, stanza xxxix.]

Because that soul refined man's common air!

Perhaps it is in this sense that Taliessin speaks in his mystical poem called "Taliessin's History," still extant:—

"I have been an instructor
To the whole universe.
I shall remain till the day of doom
On the face of the earth."

[3.—Page 389, stanza xlviii.]

And smote the Heathen with the Angel's sword.