26 'Religion's' 1647; 'Religious' 1651, 1653.
27 1651, 1653, 'I' th'': but here, as often, the apostrophation ruins the verse.
30 'hath' 1653: 'has' 1647, 1651.
32 Williams had been chairman of the Committee 'to consider innovations' in 1641. His private malice was to Laud.
46 I am not certain of the meaning. But Lincolnshire (at least Lindsey) was strongly Royalist early in the war till Cromwell's successes at Grantham, Lea Moor, and Winceby in 1643.
53 1647, 1651 'unparalleled'.
Mark Antony.
When as the nightingale chanted her vespers,
And the wild forester couched on the ground,