9 rebated] The opposite of 'unbated' in Hamlet—with the button on.

11 Mr. Pepys on November 6, 1660, watched this process (which was specially used in ship-selling) for the first time and with interest. 'candle' 1653: 'candle's' 1677.

17-18 Not a very happy 'conceiting' of the fact that in a millennium and a half the Julian reckoning had got ten days behindhand.

27 The siege of Ostend (1601-4) lasted three years and seventy-seven days.

34 Did a far greater Cambridge poet think of this in writing

'When the locks are crisp and curl'd?'

(The Vision of Sin.)

48 regealing] Cleveland seems to use this unusual word in the sense of 'unfreezing'.

51 1677 spoils sense and verse alike by beginning the line with 'Than'. The 'tears' are the 'bath'.