749 ([return])
[ Borne upon unequal wheels.—Ver. 264. He alludes to Thalia, the Muse who inspires him, preferring the unequal or Hexameter and Pentameter measure of Elegiac verse.]
750 ([return])
[ By the lark.—Ver. 286. See the Metamorphoses, Book x.]
751 ([return])
[ Of Cydon.'—Ver. 293. This was a city of Crete.]
752 ([return])
[ Untruthful as it is.—Ver. 298. The Cretans were universally noted in ancient times for their disregard for truth. St. Paul, in his Epistle to Titus, ch. i. ver, 12, says, quoting from the Cretan poet Epimenides "One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, 'The Cretans are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.' This witness is true.">[