421-4 There is a reference to Drayton's Nymphidia, where Oberon and Pigwiggen drink from a 'bottell' of 'Lethe spring', and forget their quarrel. For a further reference to this poem, see l. 1420.
465 'breath'. A seventeenth-century form.
489 I have kept 'ante' because I do not know whether it is for 'aunt' or 'ant'. Neither seems to give much sense. [Return]
500 There is certainly a long s in original, and 'sore-head' is intelligible, but 'forehead' would go better with 'flag'.
537 Whiting, for all his extravagance, triviality, and so forth, has occasionally an odd gift of phrase. 'Pandora was not treasured up in faces' is an instance.
538 possessing elves] = 'The actual possessors'.
541 The maid] Thisbe, I suppose, though there is nothing to separate her from other maids that 'sat in Babylon'.
551 peevish girl] Scylla.
569-70 See Ovid Met. I. 523.
591 coarse] Orig. 'course', as so often. [Return]