The differing titles of the Red and White.
1677 'Divides her York and Lancaster'—pretty palpable emendation to supply the apparent lack of a verb.
27-30 It has been suggested to me that the sense wants mechanical aid to clear it up; and I have therefore made a visible parenthesis of 'whose ... shop', following 1677.
34 thinking] fearing 1677.
36 1653 &c. 'saints'—a misprint, as 1647, 1651 have the singular.
38 Here, for once, Cleveland achieves the really poetical conceit.
42 1647, 1651, 1653, &c. 'bids'—again a mere misprint.
43 1647, 1651, 1653 'would'.
47 straw] For 'strew', as in the A. V.
49 1649, 1651, 1653, 'perceives' (an unconscious echo of 'leaves' in l. 48).