[Line: 45 In this pyramidally metaphysical passage Cleveland does not quite play the game. Mahomet's pigeon did not _kiss_ him. But 'privy seals to take up hearts' is very dear to fancy, most delicate, and of liberal conceit. So also 'jewels are in ear-rings worn' below; where the game is played to its rigour, though the reader may not at first see it.] [Line: 46 his] 'her' _1651_, _1653_; but it clearly should be 'his', which is in _1677_.] [Line: 53 _1651_, _1653_ read 'Next to those sweets her lips dispense', _nescio an melius_.] [Line: 61 her] 'our,' a variant of one edition (_1665_) is all wrong.] [Line: 62 Mr. Berdan has strangely misinterpreted 'venter'. The phrase is quite a common one--'of the second _marriage_.' The first kiss comes of lip and lip, the second of lip and love.] [Line: 67 pickeering] 'marauding', 'skirmishing in front of an army'.] [Line: 70 For 'join' [jine] _1651_, _1653_ and others have 'whine'--suggesting the Latin _gannitus_ frequent in such contexts. But 'join' must be right. Professor Gordon points out that the passage is a reminiscence of Donne, in his _Extasie_: As 'twixt two equall Armies, Fate Suspends uncertaine victorie, Our soules (which to advance their state Were gone out,) hung 'twixt her, and mee.(13-16.) This is contrasted with the bodily 'entergrafting' of l. 9, &c.] [Line: 74 When 'prose and sense' came in they were very contemptuous of this Baron Tell-clock. But the image is complete, congruous, and capable of being championed.] [Line: 75 'Boutesel' of course = 'boot and saddle', albeit 'boute' does not mean 'boot'.] The Hecatomb to his Mistress.