"The moist star,
Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands."
[8] "Thrilling—tremulously moving."—Dyce. Perhaps the meaning rather is penetrating—drilling its way through—"the gloomy sky."
[9] Variegated (Lat. discolor).
[10] Dyce quotes a passage of Harington's Orlando Furioso where "flowre" (floor) rhymes with "towre."
[11] Ed. 1600 and later 4tos. "Tail'd." For the coupling of "Vailed" with "veiling," cf. 2. Tamb. v. iii. 6. "pitch their pitchy tents."
[12] This line is quoted in As you like it, iii. 5:—
"Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might,—
Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight."
[13] "A periphrasis of Night." Marginal note in ed. 1598.