and streightway she
Carves out her dainty voice as readily,
Into a thousand sweet distinguish'd Tones,
And reckons up in soft divisions
Crashaw, Musicks Duell.Quicke volumes of wild Notes.
l. 102. Satans Sergeants, i.e. bailiffs, watching to arrest for debt. Compare:
as this fell Sergeant, Death,
Shakespeare, Hamlet, V.Is strict in his arrest.
l. 120. but a Saint Lucies night. Compare p. [44]. 'Saint Lucies night' is the longest in the year, yet it too passes, is only a night. Death is a long sleep, yet a sleep from which we shall awaken. So the Psalmist compares life to 'a watch in the night', which seems so long and is so short.
ll. 123-6. Shee whose Complexion, &c.: i.e. 'in whose temperaments the humours were in such perfect equilibrium that no one could overgrow the others and bring dissolution':