Can mend that night-piece, that is, make her worse.
Madam Gabrina] 7 'Orpment' = yellow arsenic—then, and to some extent still, used as a gold-dye.
39 Malone MS. 22 omits that.
41 It is curious that King, who has elsewhere followed Spenser in the matter of eye-rhyme pretty closely, did not spell 'raze', 'race', which was a very usual form and perhaps, as in 'race-ship', the commoner pronunciation.—The whole poem is one of his most disappointing. His Spanish distich—which (adopting Mr. Browning's use of 'fix') might be paraphrased:
If a bad woman once has fix'd you,
Put many a mile of ground betwixt you—
says nothing about mere ugliness; while, on the other hand, King does not utilize the prescription of absence as the only cure for ill-placed love. He has at first sight simply added (though, as one would expect, not in the most offensive form) another to the far too numerous dull and loathsome imitations of one of Horace's rare betrayals of the fact that he was not a gentleman. But see on next.