104. Flanders. Allusion to Cæsar’s campaign against the Nervii, who occupied that part of the Netherlands known as Flanders.
113. This battle is depicted in Cæsar’s Commentaries, Book II, chapter 25.
136. Since Rose Standish died. See note on line 61.
140. The loss of her father, mother and brother is mentioned in Bradford’s History of the Plymouth Plantation. See note, line 85.
206. Astaroth, Baal. Divinities of ancient Syria, mentioned in the Old Testament. Milton refers to them:
“With these came they, who, from the bordering flood
Of old Euphrates to the brook that parts
Egypt from Syrian ground, had general names
Of Baalim and Ashtaroth,—those male,
These feminine.”