3533 This scene has a Robin-and-Makyne character, which might have been made very good and is actually not quite bad.
3558 feeted] = 'put into metre'.
3581 Orig. 'ftam'd'.
3582 seq. The story of Aphrodite and her gift to Phao is vulgate, but the goddess's alias is not Greek to me. In the atrocious printing of the original it might be either 'Sea's' or (more nearly) 'Sed's'. The latter is a clear vox nihili, and as, I suppose, even Nathaniel Whiting in the height of his pranks would not make 'Se-a' a dissyllable, I suppose also that he wrote 'the Sea's' and the printer dropped the article. [Return]
3604 Circe is rather loosely called Glaucus' wife.
3606 Who was or were Holgoy?
3608 'Heliotropion' rather—the Moonstone, much used in magic.
3612 Polupists] = 'pluralists'.
3616 Pompholyx is a 'bubble', thence a 'blister', and thence again a sort of eczema. But whether it became a name for one of the 'Fauna of Fancy' I do not find.
3617 'Your loves catch feathers.' In the original, 'Your loves with catch-feathers'; the 'with' seems to have been taken over from the preceding line.