[4] As, for instance, avarice and prodigality.
[5] In the Thebaid.
[6] Eteocles and Polynices, the two sons of Jocasta. See Hell, Canto XXVI.
[7] On her lyre.
[8] From the general course of thy poems.
[9] St. Peter.
[10] The famous prophecy of the Cumaean Sibyl, very early applied to the coming of Christ:—
Magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo.
Jam redit et virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna:
Jam nova progenies caelo demittitur alto.—Ecloga, iv. 5-7.
[11] Where love too slack is punished.
[12] Parnassus.
[13] The Muses.