3354 not] Orig. 'hot'!
3363 'Dreane' is, of course, 'drain'. There is a form drenian (though it is not the only one) in A.S. Cf. p. 539, l. 2.
3367 Rather a fine line, and 'the Child of Sin', though of course not original, is interesting before Milton for Death.
3374 This looks at first like a most remarkable super-painting of the lily. But the violets are the veins.
3396 Orig. ''Tis th' countenance': but Whiting is rarely, if ever, rough to this extent, and his printer might do anything. [Return]
3437: Phyma] Whiting, or his printer, must surely have confused φῦμα, 'a malignant growth', 'tumour', with φῦσα, 'a fiery blast'.
3442 had] Orig. 'hab'. So in l. 3437 'ugon' and in l. 3444 'wheo'. There was apparently no correction of the press at all.
3460 healthed] = 'seen that they were in health'.
3467 forth'] So orig. Of course Whiting may have written 'forth th''.
3493-7 Some confusion here between Proserpine and Eurydice. [Return]