NOTES
15 l. 34 th' immortal
16 Miscellany Poems, 1713, Poems, 1714, p. 143: A poem of seventy-six lines, out of which W. takes ll. 37-62. ''Tis fit Serena should be sung'—Serena being Lady Catharine Tufton, daughter of 'Arminda,' the Countess of Thanet.
l. 6 T' express
l. 7 mind [om. ,]
l. 9 alt' ring
17 l. 19 T' explain,
l. 23 how All, that's
18 Miscellany Poems, 1713, Poems, 1714, p. 259: 'Life's Progress,' a poem of nine stanzas. W. selects stanzas 1, 4, 6,6.
l. 1 is at first begun
l. 9 do 's that
19 l. 12 April-drops
l. 18 gently rising
20 Miscellany Poems, 1713, Poems, 1714, p. 289.
l. 14 Chaplets
21 W. omits the last four lines:
Who then their Ev'ning-Dews may spare.
When thou no longer art their Care;
But shalt, like ancient Heroes, burn,
And some bright Hearth be made thy urn.
22 Miscellany Poems, 1713, Poems, 1714, p. 156. A poem of 107 lines. W. selects ll. 48-61; 65-83; 90-107. The lines excised contain conceits, family history, and common-places.
l. 2 Tears, . . . Nature's
l. 5 that patient
l. 10 tow'rd this
23 l. 18 hadst
l. 20 hadst
l. 23 so Fresh, so Fair:
l. 27 Beams,
l. 28 Confines, lay l. 31 the Mother's
24 l. 32 seen,
l. 40 pleases, whilst
l. 47 clouds,
25 Miscellany Poems, 1713, Poems, 1714, p. 262: 'Hope.' Lady Winchelsea's first line is: 'The Tree of Knowledge we in Eden prov'd'; that is, in Eden we made trial of the tree of Knowledge. If W.'s alteration be intentional, it must be pronounced a remarkable attempt at a conceit in the style of the metaphysical school: the tree of knowledge proved to be the tree of life, by 'one greater man' restoring us.
l. 7 t' expel
l. 8 wave
