[641]. Furies': used objectively.
[642]. little reckoning made: see 'Lycidas,' [116].
[646]. lime-twigs: used metaphorically.
[662]. root-bound: referring to her metamorphosis into a laurel tree (δάφνη).
[673]. his: old neuter genitive, its.
[675]. Nepenthes (Gk. νηπενθὲς, sorrow-soothing): the drug (supposed to be opium) given by Polydamna to Helena, who put it into her husband Menelaus's wine.—Od., iv. 220 et seq. See note to Pope's translation, v. 302.
'Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore.'
—Poe's Raven, 83.
[685]. unexempt condition: condition to which all mortal frailty is subject, namely, refreshment after toil, ease after pain.
[688]. that: referring to 'you,' 682.