[Line: 2 twists] _1647_, _1651_, _1653_, and others 'twist'd', which is very like the time.] [Line: 10 both sexes] _1677_ and later '_the_ sexes'.] [Line: 13 I do not know whether it is worth while to point out that catalectic or seven-syllabled lines with trochaic effect (cf. 9. this, 16, and others), as well as complete trochaic dimeters (1, 2, &c.), occur more frequently here than in _The Senses' Festival_, _Fuscara_, &c. This, though of course Milton has it, was rather more frequent in Randolph's generation than in Cleveland's.] [Line: 22 _1647_, _1651_, _1677_, and later 'faction', but 'factions' _1653_.] [Line: 25 _1651_, _1653_ &c. '_It_ would', which can hardly be right. On the other hand _1677_ and its follower have '_With_ Regulus his' (l. 26).] [Line: 31 It can hardly be necessary to interpret this famous and charming phrase.] [Line: 48 Line shortened to the trochaic run in _1677_, &c. by dropping 'is'.] [Line: 52 'Lycomedes' puzzled the earlier printers, who in _1647_ and _1651_ make it 'Nicomedes' (corrupted by _1653_ to 'Nichomedes')--a curiously awkward blunder, as it happens.] [Line: 56 the left _1647_, _1653_: thy left _1651_.] [Line: 58 The late edition of _1687_, when 'regularity' was becoming a fetish, inserted 'all' before 'alone', though _1677_--its standard for the genuine poems--has not got it, and it is not wanted.] [Line: 59 heteroclite part] _1677_ and its followers, puzzled by this, the original, reading, read 'apart' (apostrophating 'Het'roclite'), the sense of which is not clear; while Mr. Berdan would emend to 'heteroclitic', which is unnecessary. Cleveland may well have scanned 'heter[=o]clite', which is by no means an extravagant licence, and has been paralleled by Longfellow in 'Eur[=o]clydon'. Indeed, since I wrote this note Mr. Simpson has furnished me with a parallel of 'heter[=o]clite' itself from Harl. MS. 4126, f. 102.] [Line: 60 but thy heart _1649_: not the heart _1651_, _1653_.] [Line: 62 'But' _1677_: 'And' in earlier texts.] The Author's Hermaphrodite. (Made after Mr. Randolph's death, yet inserted into his Poems.)