v. 181. this] i. e. thus; see note, p. 86. v. 38.
v. 183. dowues donge] i. e. pigeon’s dung.
v. 194. croked] i. e. crooked.
—— Cacus] See extract from The Recuyel of the Historyes of Troy, in note, p. 213. v. 23.
v. 196. Nother] i. e. Neither.
—— Olibrius] Was “the provost” by whose order Saint Margaret, after being put to sundry tortures, was beheaded at Antioch. Golden Legende, fol. ccxiiii. sqq. ed. 1483. See also The Legend of Seynt Mergrete, printed from the Auchinleck MS., in Turnbull’s Legendæ Catholicæ. Most readers will recollect Mr. Milman’s dramatic poem, The Martyr of Antioch.
v. 198.
—— Phalary,
Rehersed in Valery]
i. e. Phalaris, recorded in Valerius Maximus, lib. iii. cap. iii. (where it is related that the Agrigentines, at the instigation of Zeno Eleates, stoned the tyrant Phalaris to death. “’Tis plain,” says Bentley, “he mistakes Phalaris for Nearchus.” Diss. upon the Ep. of Phalaris,—Works, i. 241. ed. Dyce), and lib. ix. cap. ii.