[112] Davies and Southey, as before, substitute 'Maker's will.' G.
[113] Homer, Iliad, VIII. 19: and cf. Tennyson ('Morte d' Arthur,' p. 200: edition 1848.)
'For so the whole round world is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.' G.
[114] It is noticeable that the supreme Divine and Thinker of America—Jonathan Edwards—accepts this symbol of the 'Tree,' and works it out marvellously in his great treatise on 'Original Sin.' G.
[115] Misprinted in 1622 'sports:' 'spots' from 1599, 1602 and 1608. G.
[116] 'Since,' as before in 1599 and 1608 editions. G.
[117] One of Heylin's numerous books is called 'Microcosmus:' a little Description of the great World. Oxon: 1st edn., 1622. The word is met with in other old title-pages and in theological (Puritan) writings. G.
[118] Davies and Southey, as before, insert 'forth' here. G.
[119] Davies and Southey, as before, substitute 'o'er:' but 'on' is the Poet's own word here and elsewhere. G.
[120] In 1599 and 1608 editions, 'her.' G.