[Line: 27 This line is slightly ambiguous. At first one takes 'Judges' as referring to the regicide tribunal--and of course not merely the dignity but the unanswerable logic of Charles's attitude is admitted. But our elegist would hardly admit that the King moved in the sphere of his rebellious subjects, so that it may be a reference to the legally constituted bench of earlier years--'_his_ Judges' in another sense.] [Line: 40 See 2 Kings xx, 2 Chronicles xxxii, and Isaiah xxxix.] [Line: 45 A little prosaic. Old St. Paul's was being constantly tinkered: indeed, as is well known from Evelyn's _Diary_, there were plans for very extensive restoration just before the Fire.] [Line: 48 Orig. 'losses', which at the time would stand equally well for singular and plural genitive.] [Line: 58 Orig. 'sacrifise', to get a complete ear-rhyme.] [Line: 61 This apostrophe to the 'cursed mountebanks of State' is uncommonly vigorous, and much straighter 'hitting from the shoulder' than King usually manages.] [Line: 100 Orig. 'husband', without 's, and possibly intended.] [Line: 124 perspective] As commonly = 'telescope'.] [Line: 138 Watkins I know not; Pennington we have seen in Cleveland; Venn (1586-1650) was John Venn, wool-merchant, M.P., active rebel, and regicide.] [Line: 142 This (original) may read, 'Your mouths, laid on, maintain the cry', which seems most probable; or, 'Your mouth's [_i.e._ is] laid on "Maintain the cry".'] [Line: 146 1 Samuel xxiii 24. Jeshimon seems to have escaped Alexander the Concordance-smith.] [Line: 155 foil] The word in this sense had puzzled me; but the readers of the Clarendon Press put me literally on it by reference to _N.E.D._ It means the 'scent' or 'track' of a hunted animal and occurs in the first sense in Turbervile, and elsewhere, as well as (figuratively used) in as late and well-known a place as _Tom Jones_.] [Line: 199 'Moil'--or rather, more commonly, 'moyle'--is very common for 'mule' in Elizabethan drama, and is said to be still dialectic, especially in Devon and Cornwall.] [Line: 223 'Goal' would seem here to be used as = 'jakes', though it has been suggested that the common sense of 'jail' will do.] [Line: 226 Orig. 'Coaps'.] [Line: 238 'probation' must here = '_ap_probation'.] [Line: 246 Orig. 'Idol Bel_l_', which may puzzle for a moment. Of course the Dragon's companion and Nebo's is meant. The poet seems indeed rather to have mixed up the monster and the false god.] [Line: 250 Here again there seems to be a slight confusion between Pantagruel and his glorious father.] [Lines: 265-6 Another uncommonly vigorous couplet.]