[64.] "Death of that king, abandoned by his children, and even robbed in his last moments by his courtiers and his mistress" (Gray).
[67.] "Edward the Black Prince, dead some time before his father" (Gray).
[69.] The MS. has "hover'd in thy noontide ray," and in the next line "the rising day."
In Agrippina, a fragment of a tragedy, published among the posthumous poems of Gray, we have the same figure:
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"around thee call The gilded swarm that wantons in the sunshine Of thy full favour." |
[71.] "Magnificence of Richard the Second's reign. See Froissard and other contemporary writers" (Gray).
For this line and the remainder of the stanza, the MS. has the following:
| "Mirrors of Saxon truth and loyalty, Your helpless, old, expiring master view! They hear not: scarce religion does supply Her mutter'd requiems, and her holy dew. Yet thou, proud boy, from Pomfret's walls shalt send A sigh, and envy oft thy happy grandsire's end." |
On the passage as it stands, cf. Shakes. M. of V. ii. 6:
| "How like a younger, or a prodigal, The scarfed bark puts from her native bay," etc. |