1081 Of the numerous shades of the word 'baulk', 'parry' or 'foil' comes nearest here

1084 are] 'or' in the original.

1086 'Chester'] = 'he who chests'—and why not? [Return]

1112 The metaphors as well as the bloods are something mixed: but again, why not?

1130 Although 'toll' was never (and then less than now) confined to funerals Whiting had better have used another word.

1155 'Anchorist', is at any rate better than 'Priorist'. Fuller used it later.

1172 If Bellama, who indeed seems to have been an outspoken young lady, had regarded manners in regard to her love as little as Agamemnon in regard to his wife, she might have told him that his verses were rather long. [Return]

1211 satonisco]? Form of 'satin', unknown elsewhere.

1214 'frank', again Shakespearian, is of course proper to the boar only; but Whiting did not regard invidious distinctions.

1244 There is, of course, not the slightest justification for 'rosy', but our poet was supra not merely grammaticam but vocabularium and everything else.