[49] See A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth, Percy Society Publications, vol. vi.
[50] Masson’s Life of Milton, vol. i. p. 665.
[51] Ibid.
[52] It was payable in three instalments, the third to be paid on Midsummer Day 1638.
[53] Compare Prospero in The Tempest: “To my poor cell”.
[54] L. P., first series, vol. v.
[55] L. P., first series, vol. v.
[56] Lady Warwick’s Autobiography (Percy Society).
[57] Variously explained as being the arbutus, and espalier apples.
[58] George Goring was now Governor of Portsmouth. He had been wounded in the leg at the siege of Breda, had been going about London on crutches, and was still lame.