"Summon'd me hither to this short-grass'd green."

This must be the right reading, as the folio has gras'd. Some would read graz'd, which can hardly be right.


"And the broom groves

Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves."

For 'broom' Hanmer read brown, which I have adopted; though contrary to my rule (see Introd. p. [51]), as I have met no earlier authority for this use of brown than Milton. The poet's word may have been broad or trim. The broom never attains a height to justify the terming it a 'grove.' Dyer, a good authority, has in his Fleece "low-tufted broom," and Bloomfield (Rural Tales) "tufts of green broom," both using the proper term. I doubt if 'grove' is ever used of any but forest-trees.


"Spring come to you at the farthest,

In the very end of harvest."