[Line: 22 They print 'Would' for 'Should'. This may look better at first; but I at least can make no real sense of it. With 'Should' I can make some. The poet starts an extravagant comparison in 19-21; continues it in '[suppose] that Intelligence should', &c.; finds it will not do, and breaks it off with the parenthetical 'Let me' &c. To bring this out I have inserted the --.] [Line: 24 _1677_ 'And venture', with a full-stop at 'higher', not so well; but in ...] [Line: 25 '_un_decline' _1651_, _1653_, &c. is nonsense; while in the next line 'sound _agen_' either points to a complete breakdown or indicates that, on the most recent Cockney principles, 'again' could be pronounced 'ag_ine_' and rhymes _à la_ Mrs. Browning. The text is _1677_.] [Line: 28 set] shadow _1677_.] [Line: 35 define] describe _1677_.] [Line: 37 perfections _1651_, _1653_: perfection _1677_.] [Line: 43 brief = 'list'.] [Line: 44 name-sak'd _1651_, _1653_.] [Line: 45 the] your _1677_.] [Line: 52 _1677_, not nearly so well, 'see and' for 'feel, to'. You want the list of senses completed and summed up by such a palate in 'see', which, repeated, spoils all.] [Line: 54 _1651_, _1653_ have 'his' for 'hers'; but 'a double prize' is more vivid if less strictly defensible than 'the beauteous' of _1677_. So in 56 _1677_ opens with 'Seeing each' instead of 'When from'--much feebler. But in 57-8 The text, which is _1677_, is better than _1653_: Or can the sight be deaf _if she but speak_, A well-tuned face, such moving rhetoric? which indeed is, if not nonsense, most clumsily expressed, even if comma at 'face' be deleted.] [Line: 60 and melts] yet melts _1677_.] [Line: 66 'sixt' _1651_, _1653_, _1677_.] [Lines: 70-1 The punctuation of the old texts--no comma at 'flowers' and one at 'hearse'--makes the passage hard to understand. As I have altered this punctuation, it is clear.] [Line: 73 what Divines] _1651_, _1653_, &c. 'with Divines'.] [Line: 75 come now _1677_: come, come _1651_, _1653_.] [Line: 83 square] squared _1677_. If all this is not burlesque it is very odd.] [Line: 85 you undertake not _1651_, _1653_.] [Line: 91 roll] rouse _1651_, _1653_. ravelled] revealed _1651_, _1653_.] [Line: 98 the] her _1651_, _1653_.] [Line: 100 The hundred lines making the _heca_tomb--and the metaphysical matter the subject of sacrifice.] Upon Sir Thomas Martin, Who subscribed a Warrant thus: 'We the Knights and Gentlemen of the Committee,' &c. when there was no Knight but himself.