[2:1.] Drawn for Valentine, etc. (p. 7).
The Editor guesses this young lady, the ‘bright dawn,’ who will ‘challenge every heart,’ later, to be the future Marchioness of Halifax, the little Dorothy, daughter of the Earl of Sunderland (who was killed at Newbury when she was three years old), and ‘Saccharissa.’ She was eleven in 1651. Waller, Sedley, and others, have left happier poems addressed to children, in the same forced tone, which was quite characteristic of the time.
‘Dear, fold me once more in thine arms’ (p. 10).
[3:1.] P. 10, line 15. A final couplet difficult to scan. If correctly printed, it has a dissyllable rhyme, with the accentual stress on ‘wi’ thee.’
Love’s Innocence (p. 12).
[4:1.] P. 12. The 1647 title is ‘The Innocence of Love.’
[4:2.] P. ” line 1. 1647 reads:
‘See how this ivy, Dear, doth twine.’
‘See how this ivy, Dear, doth twine.’