Multa elementa vides multis communia verbis,
Cum tamen inter se versus ac verba necessest
Confiteare et re et sonitu distare sonanti,
Tantum elementa queunt permutato ordine solo.
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, I. 824-7.
Compare Aristotle, De Gen. et Corr. I. 2.
l. 22. unfit. I have changed the semicolon after this word to a full stop. The former suggests that the next two lines are an expansion or explanation of this statement. But the poet is giving a series of different reasons why Flavia may be loved.
ll. 41-2. When Belgias citties, the round countries drowne,
That durty foulenesse guards, and armes the towne:
Chambers, adopting a composite text from editions and MSS., reads: