"Stay them; the King hath thrown his warder down."


"To wake our Peace, which in our country's cradle," etc.

From what follows, in which she is said to "fright fair Peace," we might suspect that for 'Peace' the poet had written Strife, or some such word.


"The sly slow hours shall not determinate."

Pope read fly, and he has been generally followed. I have little doubt that the poet wrote slide (i. q. glide) slow.

"So sholdestow endure and latten slyde

The tyme and fonde to be glad and light."