FOOTNOTES:
[3] Alluding to the two heroines of Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia; Sacharissa was the grandniece of that preux chevalier, and hence the frequent allusions to his name and fame.
[4] Alluding to Sir Philip Sydney.
[5] Lines on her picture.
[6] Sacharissa, the poetical name Waller himself gave her, signifies sweetness.
[7] His infant daughter, then about two years old, afterwards Marchioness of Halifax.
[8] The Countess's mother, Lady Leicester, who was then with her at Althorpe.
[9] Sydney's Memorials, vol. ii. p. 271.
[10] See State Poems, vol. iii. p. 396.