FOOTNOTES:
[140:1] This is a modern reading, the older and more correct reading is "twilled."
"Within the garden's peaceful scene
Appeared two lovely foes,
Aspiring to the rank of Queen,
The Lily and the Rose.
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Yours is, she said, the noblest hue,
And yours the statelier mien,
And till a third surpasses you
Let each be deemed a Queen."—Cowper.
LIME.
| (1) | Ariel. | All prisoners, sir, In the Line-grove which weather-fends your cell. |
| Tempest, act v, sc. 1 (9). | ||
| (2) | Prospero. | Come, hang them on this Line. |
| Ibid., act iv, sc. 1 (193). | ||
| (3) | Stephano. | Mistress Line, is not this my jerkin? |
| Ibid., act iv, sc. 1 (235). | ||