[Footnote 173: 'Edward:' Edward the Black Prince, born on Trinity
Sunday.]
[Footnote 174: 'Patron of our isle': St George.]
[Footnote 175: 'Araunah's threshing-floor:' alluding to the passage in 1
Kings xxiv.]
[Footnote 176: 'Unnamed as yet:' the prince was christened but not named when this poem was published.]
[Footnote 177: 'Tetragrammaton:' Jehovah, or the name of God, unlawful to be pronounced by the Jews.]
[Footnote 178: 'Rome was kept concealed:' some authors say, that the true name of Rome was kept a secret.]
[Footnote 179: 'Crete:' Candia, where Jupiter was born and bred secretly.]
[Footnote 180: 'Brain was born:' Pallas or Minerva, said by the poets to have sprung from the brain of Jove, and to have been bred up by hand, as was this young prince.]
[Footnote 181: 'Sudden blast:' the sudden false report of the prince's death.]
[Footnote 182: 'Moments grow:' those giants are feigned to have grown fifteen yards every day.]