[404. it recks me not.] The verb is thus used, impersonally, also in [Lycidas 122].
[407.] The line has two hypermetric syllables, one after the third foot, and one at the end.
[413. squint suspicion.] An epithet applicable only to a physical infirmity is applied to a mental act.
[422. quivered:] bearing a quiver.
[423. unharbored:] furnishing no shelter.
[424. Infamous hills.] Accent infamous as we do now and as Milton does elsewhere. Verses thus beginning with trochees are common.
[429.] Look up the origin of the word grots.
[430. unblenched:] unstartled.
[434. Blue meagre hag.] The hag has the livid hue of hunger.
[436. swart faery of the mine.] A malignant demon dwelling under ground,—a gnome.