20 commendam] (misprinted '-dum' from 1659 to 1677). A benefice held with another; something additional.
21: 'spider' 1677; 'spider's' 1659, 1662, 1668.
25 'banished' 1677: 'barren' 1659, 1662, 1668.
30 In this very obscure and ultra-Clevelandian line 1677 reads 'their'. I think 'our'—the reading of Cleaveland Revived, followed by 1662 and 1668—is better. But the whole poem (one of Cleveland's earliest political attempts) is weak and pithless.
33 'that' 1687: 'the' 1659, 1662, 1668.
42 'counterpart' 1677: 'counterpane' 1659, 1662, 1668.
Poems certainly or almost certainly Cleveland's but not included in 1653 or 1677.
Poems, &c. I have been exceedingly chary of admission under this head, for there seems to me to be no reasonable via media between such severity and the complete reprinting of 1687—with perhaps the known larcenies in that and its originals left out. Thus, of eleven poems given—but as 'not in 1677'—by Mr. Berdan I have kept but three, besides one or two which, though not in 1677, are in 1653, and so appear above. Of these the Jonson Elegy from Jonsonus Virbius is signed, and as well authenticated as anything can be; News from Newcastle is quoted by Johnson and therefore of importance to students of the Lives. The Elegy upon Charles I is in 1654 among the poems which that collection adds to 1653, is very like him, and relieves Cleveland partly, if not wholly, from the charge of being wanting to the greatest occasion of his life and calling.