How much sublimer gallantry and renown
'Tis to restore, than to usurp a Monarch's Crown.
On the Death of the Duke of Albemarle.] First printed in small folio in 1670. Monk died that year. There are some important variants, noted below.
40 a Crown] three Realms 1670.
47 The extreme rapidity of Monk's own transition from commonerhood to the highest rank in the peerage makes this allusion to Oliver's mock-lords rather hazardous; but after all Monk was a gentleman, and had richly deserved it.
49 vulture] bloody vulture 1670.
51 Zim and Ohim are the original Hebrew for the 'wild beasts of the desert' and the 'doleful creatures' who accompany owls and satyrs in Isaiah xiii. 21 (A.V.).
61 bright] warm 1670.
After l. 75 ('ride') the following lines appeared in 1670:
Under a gallant Admiral he fought,