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30.	l. 38.	30. l. 38. they] he 1648.
	l. 50.	so nice] nice 1646, 1648, 1658.
	l. 59.	Katherne pear] 'A small and early variety of pear' (New Eng. Dict.). Cf. Gay, Shepherd's Week, 1714, Wednesday, l. 56; Crabbe, Tales of the Hall, 1819, x. 598, 599: ''Twas not the lighter red, that partly streaks The Catherine pear, that brighten'd o'er her cheeks.'
31.	l. 75.	purely] Halliwell notes the use as East Anglian, and quotes Miège's French Dict., 1688: 'Ortolan . . . sings purely, and is good to eat.'
	ll. 91-96.	In the 1648 and some later editions, this stanza, with the two halves inverted, is placed after the stanza which ends at l. 78.
	l. 94.	Passion o' me] Passion oh me! all early edd.
32.	l. 107.	Whilst] Till 1646, 1658.
	l. 120.	God b'w'ye] God B'w'y' 1648; Good Boy! 1646, 1658.
	l. 127.	out; and now] out and out 1646, 1658.
	l. 128.	do] do't 1646, 1658.
	'My dearest rival'] Cf. the poem To His Rival, below, pp. 35, 36; and see the advice in letter ii. (p. 300): 'Continue your affection to your rival still: that will secure you from one way of loving, which is in spite.'
	l. 10.	Or] Or else 1658.
33.	Song.
	l. 1.	whosoever] whatsoever 1658. There is a parody of this song in the Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin.
35.	Upon Two Sisters.
	l. 4.	Or the nice points] So all the editions; but, to make sense, we should read As the nice points.
	l. 6.	This line is wanting. Hazlitt supplied it thus: As . . . and Aglaura are.
	To His Rival.
	l. 2.	creep where't cannot go] Suckling uses this proverbial phrase below, in the lines Upon Sir John Laurence's bringing Water . . . to Witten.
36.	l. 11.	like clocks] This simile is also used above, in the second of the three 'sonnets,' and in the lines 'That none beguiled be,' p. 25.