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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. |