[44]‘Like a flag floating,’ &c.: hence Wilson’s line in his ‘Address to a Wild-Deer:’—
‘Like a flag burning bright when the vessel is gone.’
[45]‘Fucus:’ an old type of makeup.—ee
[46]‘Snuff:’ a candle-end or wick.—ee
[47]‘Murray:’ Lord Mansfield.
[48]‘Fabled boy:’ Narcissus.
[49]‘Yorke:’ Lord Chancellor Hardwick.
[50]‘Above:’ in a former Night.
[51]‘Prussia:’ under Frederick the Great.
[52]‘One departed world:’ the world before the flood.