Edited by the Rev.John Hannah_.
[71] "Know thyself." [72] "And I have grown their map." [73] The guilt of Adam's first sin, supposed by the theologians of Dr.
Donne's time to be imputed to Adam's descendants.
[74] The past tense: ran.
[75] Their door to enter into sin--by his example.
[76] He was sent by James I.to assist an embassy to the Elector Palatine, who had married his daughter Elizabeth.
[77] He had lately lost his wife, for whom he had a rare love.
[78] "If they know us not by intuition, but by judging from circumstances and signs." [79] "With most willingness." [80] "Art proud." [81] A strange use of the word; but it evidently means _recovered_, and has some analogy with the French _repasser_.
[82] _To_ understood: _to sweeten_.
[83] He plays upon the astrological terms, _houses_ and _schemes_.

The astrologers divided the heavens into twelve _houses_; and the diagrams by which they represented the relative positions of the heavenly bodies, they called _schemes_.
[84] The tree of knowledge.
[85] Dyce, following Seward, substitutes _curse_.
[86] A glimmer of that Platonism of which, happily, we have so much more in the seventeenth century.
[87] Should this be "_in_ fees;" that is, in acknowledgment of his feudal sovereignty?
[88] _Warm_ is here elongated, almost treated as a dissyllable.
[89] "He ought not to be forsaken: whoever weighs the matter rightly, will come to this conclusion." [90] The _Eridan_ is the _Po_ .-- As regards classical allusions in connexion with sacred things, I would remind my reader of the great reverence our ancestors had for the classics, from the influence they had had in reviving the literature of the country .-- I need hardly remind him of the commonly-received fancy that the swan does sing once--just as his death draws nigh.

Does this come from the legend of Cycnus changed into a swan while lamenting the death of his friend Phaeton?
or was that legend founded on the yet older fancy?
The glorious bird looks as if he ought to sing.
[91] The poet refers to the singing of the hymn before our Lord went to the garden by the brook Cedron.
[92] The construction is obscure just from the insertion of the _to_ before _breathe_, where it ought not to be after the verb _hear_.

The poet does not mean that he delights to hear that voice more than to breathe gentle airs, but more than to hear gentle airs (to) breathe.

_To hear_, understood, governs all the infinitives that follow; among the rest, _the winds (to) chide_.
[93] _Rut_ is used for the sound of the tide in Cheshire.