[Line: 13 Edward Pond died in 1629; but the almanac, published by him first in 1601, lasted till 1709. Rivers was probably Peregrine Rivers, 'Student in Mathematics', writer of one of the numerous almanacs of the period. There are in the Bodleian copies of his almanacs for 1629, 1630, 1638, all printed at Cambridge. (Information supplied to me from Oxford.)] [Line: 15 Some copies 'this'.] [Line: 22 Rather a good line.] [Line: 27 _1651_, _1653_, &c. 'mayst': _1647_, _1677_, &c. 'must'.] [Line: 35 _1647_ 'Monster Shrieves', _1653_ 'Monster-Sheriffs', which can hardly be right.] [Line: 44 'eighty-eight] The Armada year, often taken as a standard of remoteness not too remote. This, which is the later reading, of 1677 _sqq._, seems better than '_Thou takest in thy_ Eighty Eight' (_1647_, _1651_, _1653_, &c.).] [Lines: 49-62 The italics of _1653_, though discarded in _1677_, seem worth keeping, because of the solemn call of attention to the particulars of the 'Vow'; they extend in the _1653_ text to l. 60. But _1647_ and _1651_, prefix inverted commas to ll. 49-56, which seems a more effective ending to the 'Vow'.] [Line: 53 Some inferior editions put in 'shall'. _1647_, _1651_, _1653_, and _1677_ exclude it.] [Line: 61 twist] In the sense of 'twine', 'unite'. 'page' = 'boy'.] [Line: 62 _1647_, _1651_ 'Tropicks': _1653_ 'Tropick'; but both Cancer and Capricorn are wanted.] To Mrs. K. T. (Who asked him why he was dumb.)