[FS] The allusion is to the description of the "poure persoun of a toun" in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, ll. 477-528.—Ed.
[FT] See George Herbert's Priest to the Temple.—Ed.
[FU] The reference is to the lines in The Deserted Village—
A man he was to all the country dear,
And passing rich on forty pounds a year.
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My frame hath often trembled with delight
When hope presented some far-distant good,