[P. 203.] May Carnage and slaughter. The reference here is to lines in Wordsworth's Thanksgiving Ode on the Battle of Waterloo (later Ode, 1815), as originally published:
But Thy most dreaded instrument
In working out a pure intent,
Is Man—arrayed for mutual slaughter.
—Yea, Carnage is thy daughter!
[P. 205.] The immortal Described by Swift. Presumably a reference to the undying Struldbrugs of Gulliver's Travels, 'despised and hated by all sorts of people.'
[P. 206.] 'Twould have made Guatimozin doze. Guatimozin or Cuauhtemoc was the last of the Aztec emperors, executed with circumstances of great cruelty by Cortes.
[P. 206.] Like those famed Seven who slept three ages—i.e., the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus who, according to a Syrian legend, hid themselves in a cave during the Decian persecution (A.D. 250), fell asleep and awakened miraculously nearly two hundred years later.
[P. 215.] '&c.' This ending is in accord with the original text.
[P. 218.] He lived amidst th' untrodden ways. Mr. Walter Hamilton, whose large collection of parodies is well known, attributes this parody to Hartley Coleridge, but efforts to trace it have failed.