[Footnote 8: This line is not in Q.]
[Footnote 9: 'if you call him': I think this is not a part of the song, but is spoken of her father.]
[Footnote 10: the burden of the song: Steevens.]
[Footnote 11: The subject of the ballad.]
[Footnote 12: 'more than sense'—in incitation to revenge.]
[Footnote 13: —an evergreen, and carried at funerals: Johnson.
For you there's rosemary and rue; these keep
Seeming and savour ail the winter long:
Grace and remembrance be to you both.
The Winter's Tale, act iv. sc. 3.]
[Footnote 14: penseés.]
[Footnote 15: a teaching, a lesson—the fitting of thoughts and remembrance, namely—which he applies to his intent of revenge. Or may it not rather be meant that the putting of these two flowers together was a happy hit of her madness, presenting the fantastic emblem of a document or writing—the very idea of which is the keeping of thoughts in remembrance?]