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Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm;^{[N 1]}
Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway,^{[N 2]} 75
That, hushi'din grim repose, expects his ev'ning prey.^{[N 3]}

II. 3.
"Fill high the sparkling bowl,^{[N 4]}
The rich repast prepare,
Reft of a crown, he yet may share the feast:
Close by the regal chair 80

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Notes

"The goodly London in her gallant trim,
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And on her shadow rides in floating gold."
Dryden. An. Mirab. 151.


1. V. 74, "Ipse gubernabit residens in puppe Cupido," Ov. Heroid. Ep. xv. 215. And so Petrarch: "E al governo, siede 'l Signor, anzi 'l nimico mio," Son. clvi.
2. V. 75. So in his Fragment on Education and Government, v. 48:

   "And where the deluge burst with sweepy sway."

   The expression is from Dryden, See Virg. Georg. i. 488:

   "And rolling onwards with a sweepy sway.

   "And in Granada, act v. sc. 1.:
   "That whirls along with an impetuous sway,
   And like chain-shot sweeps all things in the way."
   
   
   And Ov. Met. "Rushing onwards with a sweepy sway."
   And AEn. vii. "The branches bend before their sweepy sway."
3. V. 76."So like a lion that unheeded lay,
   Dissembling sleep and watchful to betray,
   With inward rage he meditates his prey."
   Dryden, Sig. and Guise.
   "Fermenting tempest brew'd in the grim evening sky."
   Thomson.
4. V. 77. Richard the Second, as we are told by Archbishop Scroop and the confederate Lords in their manifesto, by Thomas of Walsingham, and all the older writers, was starved to death. The story of his assassination by Sir Piers of Exon is of much later date.Gray.
   For the profusion of Richard II. see Harding, Chron. quoted in the Preface to Mason's Hoceleve, p. 5; Daniel. Civil Wars, iii. 87; and Pennant. London, p. 89, 4to.