IV. i. 7 'slighted' = 'razed,' the original sense of 'to make level'.
24 I confess this line beat me at first. But no doubt it has a musical sense, for in music both 'division' (notes run together) and 'ground' (a recurrent motive) have technical meanings. The punctuation above, Mr. Simpson's, makes this clearer.
26 'Debvoir' is worth keeping.
Book IV. Ode X. To Ligurinus, a beauteous Youth.
'Tis true, thou yet art fair, my Ligurine,
No down as yet environs cheek or chin:
But when those hairs which now do flow, shall fall,
And when thy rosy cheeks turn wan and pale:
When in thy glass another Ligurine thou