'There is no beldam nurse to powt nor lower
When wantoning we revell in my tower,
Nor need I top my turret with a light,
To guide thee to me as thou swim'st by night.'"—Broughton.
[22] So the old eds.—Dyce reads "about."
[23] We are reminded of Lycidas:—
"Comes the blind Fury with the abhorrèd shears
And slits the thin-spun life."
[24] Omitted in ed. 1600 and later 4tos.
[25] This word cannot be right. Query, "high-aspiring?"