254. ~flowery-kirtled Naiades~: fresh-water nymphs dressed in flowers, or having their skirts decorated with flowers. A _kirtle_ is a gown; Skeat suggests that it is a diminutive of _skirt_. 255. ~baleful~, injurious (A.S. _balu_, evil). 256. ~sung~. "The verbs _swim_, _begin_, _run_, _drink_, _shrink_, _sink_, _ring_, _sing_, _spring_, have for their proper past tenses _swam_, _began_, _ran_, etc., preserving the original _a_; but in older writers (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) and in colloquial English we find forms with _u_, which have come from the passive participles." (Morris). ~take the prisoned soul~, _i.e._ would take the soul prisoner; 'prisoned' being used proleptically. 257. ~lap it in Elysium~. _Lap_ is a form of wrap: comp. _L'Alleg._ 136, "_Lap_ me in soft Lydian airs." Elysium: the abode of the spirits of the blessed; comp. _L'Alleg._ 147, "heaped Elysian flowers." ~Scylla ... Charybdis~. The former, a rival of Circe in the affections of the sea-god Glaucus, was changed into a monster, surrounded by barking dogs. She threw herself into the sea and became a rock, the noise of the surrounding waves ("multis circum latrantibus undis," _Aen._ vii. 588) resembling the barking of dogs. The latter was a daughter of Poseidon, and was hurled by Zeus into the sea, where she became a whirlpool. 260. ~slumber~: comp. _Pericles_, v. 1. 335, "thick slumber Hangs upon mine eyes." 261. ~madness~, ecstasy. The same idea is expressed in _Il Pens._ 164: "As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into _ecstasies_, And bring all heaven before mine eyes." In Shakespeare 'ecstasy' occurs in the sense of madness; see _Hamlet_, iii. 1. 167, "That unmatched form and feature of blown youth, Blasted with _ecstasy_"; _Temp._ iii. 3. 108, "hinder them from what this _ecstasy_ May now provoke them to": comp. also "the pleasure of that madness," _Wint. Tale_, v. 3. 73. See also l. 625. 262. ~home-felt~, deeply felt. Compare "The _home_ thrust of a friendly sword is sure" (Dryden); "This is a consideration that comes _home_ to our interest" (Addison): see also Index to Globe _Shakespeare_. 263. ~waking bliss~, as opposed to the ecstatic slumber induced by the song of Circe. 265. ~Hail, foreign wonder!~ Warton notes that _Comus_ is universally allowed to have taken some of its tints from the _Tempest_, and quotes, "O you wonder! If you be maid, or no?" i. 2. 426. 266. ~certain~: see note, l. 246. 267. ~Unless the goddess~, etc. = unless _thou be_ the goddess that in rural shrine _dwells_ here. Here, as often in Latin, we have 'unless' (Lat. _nisi_, etc.) used with a single word instead of a clause: and, also as in Latin, the verb in the relative clause has the person of the antecedent.