34. Rough Satyrs danced, and Fauns with cloven heel. The _Satyrs_, represented as having human forms, with small goat's horns and a small tail, had for their occupation to play on the flute for their master, Bacchus, or to pour his wine. The _Fauns_ were sylvan deities, attendants of Pan, and are represented, like their master, with the ears, horns, and legs of a goat. 37-49. Nature herself sympathizes with men, and mourns thy loss. 50. Nymphs: deities of the forests and streams. 52. on the steep Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie. The shipwreck in which King was lost took place off the coast of Wales. Any one of the Welsh mountains will serve to make good this allusion. 54. Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high. _Mona_ is the ancient and poetical name of the island of Anglesea. 55. Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. The Dee (Deva) below Chester expands into a broad estuary. In his lines spoken At a Vacation Exercise, Milton, characterizing many rivers, mentions the "ancient hallowed Dee." The country about the Dee had been specially famous as the seat of the old Druidical religion. In the eleventh Song of his Polyolbion, Drayton eulogizes the medicinal virtues of the salt springs in the valley of the river Weever, which attract Thetis and the Nereids:-- And Amphitrite oft this Wizard River led Into her secret walks (the depths profound and dread) Of him (supposed so wise) the hid events to know Of things that were to come, as things done long ago. In which he had been proved most exquisite to be; And bare his fame so far, that oft twixt him and Dee, Much strife there hath arose in their prophetic skill. 56-63. Even the Muse Calliope could do nothing for her son Orpheus, whom the Thracian women tore to pieces under the excitement of their Bacchanalian orgies. The gory visage floated down the Hebrus and through the AEgean Sea to the island of Lesbos. 64. what boots it: of what use is it? 64-66. What good are we going to derive from this unremitting devotion to study? 67-69. Would it not be better to abandon ourselves to social enjoyment, and to lives of frivolous trifling? Amaryllis and Neaera are stock names of shepherdesses. 70-72. Understand clear, as applied to spirit, to mean "pure, guileless, unsophisticated." Sir Henry Wotton, in his Panegyric to King Charles, says of King James I.,--"I will not deny his appetite of glory, which generous minds do ever latest part from." Love of fame, according to the poet, is the motive that prompts the scholar to live as an ascetic and to persevere in toilsome labor. This love of fame is an infirmity, but not a debasing one: it leaves the mind noble. Remember, however, that the author of the Imitation of Christ prayed, _Da mihi nesciri_.