No Nereid stirr'd. Cf. Milton, Lycidas, 50:
| "Where were ye, Nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas?" |
[35, 36.] The reading of 1st ed. is,
| "Nor cruel Tom nor Harry heard. What favourite has a friend?" |
[40.] The 1st ed. has "Not all that strikes," etc.
[42.] Nor all that glisters gold. A favourite proverb with the old English poets. Cf. Chaucer, C. T. 16430:
| "But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told;" |
Spenser, F. Q. ii. 8, 14:
"Yet gold all is not, that doth golden seeme;"