[94] Understood in the large sense, of the regulated exercise of the imagination.
[95] Commonly called a pun.
[96] These notes are all retained in this edition, as well as the smaller foot notes, by which the poet thought proper to explain difficult passages. They are distinguished by the addition of his name.
[97] In the early editions of the Annus Mirabilis, the verses to the Duchess are here inserted.
[99] Precious stones at first are dew condensed, and hardened by the warmth of the sun, or subterranean fires. Dryden.
[100] According to their opinion who think, that great heap of waters under the Line, is depressed into tides by the moon towards the poles. Dryden.
[102] The Spaniard.