Note that the phrase: 'But oh the heavy change,' occurs in Milton's

Lycidas

. (Professor Dowden.) See

Lycidas

, l. 37.—Ed.

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[Footnote B:]

Compare Shakspeare's Sonnet, No. xxx.:

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past;

and in Spenser's