[332. That wont’st to love.] Wont’st, in the present tense, means, as we say, art wont.
[333. Stoop thy pale visage.] Stoop is thus used, transitively, Richard II. III 1 19, “myself ... have stooped my neck.”
[334. And disinherit Chaos, that reigns here.] Chaos, “the formless void of primordial matter,” is personified by Milton here and, much more conspicuously, in Par. Lost III.
[338. a rush-candle:] a candle made with a rush for a wick,—the cheapest kind of light. from the wicker hole Of some clay habitation. Imagine a hut whose walls are made of wattled twigs plastered with clay. This clay when dry is apt to fall off in spots, leaving holes through which the light within can be seen from without. A wicker hole is a hole in the wicker-work, perhaps made intentionally, to serve as a window.
[341-342. The star of Arcady] is the constellation of the Greater Bear, and the Tyrian Cynosure that of the Lesser Bear. Stars in these constellations served as guides to Greek and Tyrian mariners.
[345. Or sound of pastoral reed with oaten stops.] Compare Collins’s Ode to Evening,—If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song. The shepherds of the Greek idylls made their musical pipes of reeds or oat-straws, and the oat has therefore been adopted by the pastoral poetry of all ages.
[349. innumerous boughs.] Compare Par. Lost VII 455.
[358. Of savage hunger, or of savage heat:] of hungry savages, or of lustful savages.
[361. grant they be so:] grant that they are real evils.
[365.] Make four syllables of delusion.