[27]‘Ne’er to meet, or ne’er to part:’ hence Burns’s famous line in his verses to Clarinda:—
‘Never met, or never parted,
We had ne’er been broken-hearted.’
[28]‘She:’ his wife, it is supposed.
[29]‘Most Christian:’ Louis XIV., King of France.
[30]‘Ours is the cloth,’ &c.: how like the lines of Coleridge!—
‘O Lady, we receive but what we give,’ &c.
[31]‘Towering flame,’ &c.: these lines are reproduced in the close of Campbell’s ‘Pleasures of Hope.’
[32]‘Already:’ Night Sixth.
[33]‘Bellerophon:’ who carried letters from Proctus to Jobates, King of Lycia, which contained an order in cipher for his execution after nine days. He contrived, however, to escape.