V.

Where yon lucent mast-top, a cup of silver, arises.

NOTES.

VIII. 2.

_Lost is the lost, thou know'st it, and the past is past._

I am indebted for this expression to a translation of this poem by Dr. J.A. Symonds, the whole of which I should have quoted here, had it not been unfortunately mislaid.

XIV. 20.

_Plague-prodigy._

Proves a plague-prodigy to God and man.

BROWNING, _Ring and Book_, v. 664.

XVII. 26.

_Rondel._

The round plate of iron which, according to Rich, Companion to the Latin Dictionary, p. 609, formed the lower part of the sock worn by horses, mules, &c., when on a journey, and, unlike our horse-shoes, was removable at the end of it.

XXII. 11.

_Looby_

a clown.

Let me now the vices trace, From his father's scoundrel race. What could give the looby such airs? Were they masons? were they butchers?

TICKELL, _Theristes or the Lordling_, 23-26.