6 1677 'in soft'.
8 Thomas Bushel[l] or Bushnell (1594-1674) was a page of Bacon's and afterwards a great 'projector' in mining and mechanical matters generally. He dabbled largely in fancy fountains and waterworks—a queer taste of the seventeenth century in which even the sober Evelyn records his own participation.
9-10 Cf. the opening of the elegy on King, 'I like not tears in tune'.
11 1647, 1651, 1653, &c. 'when he mourns', which is hardly so good.
18 Seth's pillars] A tradition, preserved in Josephus, that the race of Seth engraved antediluvian wisdom on two pillars, one of brick, the other of stone, the latter of which outlasted the Deluge.
20 1647, 1651, 1653, &c. 'From much'.
34 1647, 1651 misprint 'Agena-like.
35 1653 misprints 'blackish'.
38 1647, 1651, 1653 'noble'.
44 1677, omitting the comma at 'act', makes something like nonsense; 'by prophecy' goes, I think, with 'adjudged to die'.