[Line: 29 _1677_ inserts '_go_' before 'stroke'. But Cleveland probably scanned 'I-sa-ac'. The reference is to Isaac Pennington: cf. _The Rebel Scot_, l. 79.] [Line: 30 The phrase is of course Homeric (_sc._ [Greek: domous]) and with its companion combines the idea of an ecclesiastical condemnation ('delivering over to Satan') and a civil execution, a writ of _elegit_.] [Line: 32 faun] All old editions, I think, and Mr. Berdan, 'fa_w_n'. But the _animal_ (always now indicated by that spelling) is not of a 'twisted nature', the half-god is.] [Line: 40 One of those that taught Dryden something.] [Line: 41 Cleveland, like most Royalists and their master, was evidently sound on Shakespeare. A copy of _1677_ in my possession has a manuscript list of references on the fly-leaf.] [Line: 46 'neck-verse'] = for benefit of clergy.] [Line: 49 'Stript', _1647_, _1651_, _1653_, is evidently 'striped', and is printed 'strip'd' in _1677_.] [Line: 53 Philip Herbert, fourth Earl of Pembroke, though a patron of literature and the arts, was a man of bad character and a virulent Roundhead.] [Line: 55 'thy' _1677_: 'these' _1647_, _1651_, _1653_. of bulk unruly] if Vulcan rule you _MS._] [Line: 59 _1647_, _1651_ 'Obadiahs': _1653_ and its group 'Obadiah': _1677_ 'Obadiah's'.] [Line: 60 Algernon Percy, tenth Earl of Northumberland--who repented too late of his rebellion and tried to prevent the consequences--seems to have joined the Roundheads out of pique (his pride was notorious) at neglect of his suggestions and interference with his powers as Lord High Admiral. By putting the fleet into the hands of the Parliament he did the King perhaps more hurt than any other single person at the beginning of the war. 'Algernoon' _1647_, _1651_: later texts spoil the point of the next line by using the conventional form.] [Line: 68 Fielding] Basil, the degenerate son of the first Earl of Denbigh. He actually served in the Parliamentary Army, but like Northumberland, who did not go that length, repented too late. Doxie Marshall] The Stephen Marshall of _Smectymnuus_ and the 'Geneva Bull' of _The Rebel Scot_, l. 21; exactly why 'Doxie' I do not know. Possibly 'prostitute' from his eager Presbyterianism. It is odd that Anne and Rebecca Marshall, two famous actresses of the Restoration to whom the term might be applied with some direct justification, used to be counted his daughters, though this is now denied.] [Line: 69 Twisse] William (1578-1646), the Prolocutor of the Assembly.] [Line: 71 Saye and Sele] William Fiennes, first Viscount (1582-1662). Of very bad reputation as a slippery customer.]