Of platted leaves, not to express
Their pride i'th' novel garb, but to conceal their shame.
N. Tate.
42 'th'' for 'they' is an instance, good in its badness, of the uglier apostrophation.
63 strait] So both edd.: but as often for 'straight'.
75 'Crown'd with no laurel wreath (as others are)' should be a comfort to the poetaster. For Nahum had only to wait less than twenty years and he was crowned in the very lifetime of the discrowned 'other' Dryden, who wore the wreath at this time, and who meanwhile had done him the enormous honour of admitting him to collaboration in Absalom and Achitophel. Tate has other verses addressed to Flatman; see his Poems, p. 67.