Heaven's confessors are posed, those star-eyed sages, T' interpret an eclipse thus riding stages. 120 Thus Israel-like he travels with a cloud, Both as a conduct to him and a shroud. But oh, he goes to Gibeon and renews A league with mouldy bread and clouted shoes! [_The Kings Disguise._] That assumed on the fatal journey from Oxford to the camp of the Scots. (First printed as a quarto pamphlet of four leaves; Thomason bought his copy on 21 January, 1647; reprinted in the 1647 _Poems_. Vaughan wrote a poem on the same subject about the same time.)] [Line: 1 a tenant to] so coffin'd in _1677_.] [Line: 2 Which] That _1677_.] [Line 4: _1677_ omits 'now', rather to one's surprise, as the value 'allegi-ance' is of the first rather than of the second half of the century. It is therefore probably right.] [Line: 14 transmute] transcribe _1677_. The two readings obviously pertain to two different senses of 'blacks'--'clothes' and 'ink'.] [Line: 17 for] from _1647_ (pamphlet).] [Line: 18 line 't] lin'de _1647_ (pamphlet).] [Line: 19 The _1677_ 'Vindicators' had forgotten 'budge' in the sense of 'fur' (perhaps they were too loyal to read Milton) and made it 'b_a_dge'.] [Line: 20 _1651_, _1653_ 'Synod', with no hyphen but perhaps meant for a compound. The genitive is perhaps better. The comma at 'sable', which Mr. Berdan omits, is important.] [Lines: 21-2 The error of those who say that such a rhyme points to the pronunciation of the _l_ in words like 'could' is sufficiently shown by the fact that 'coud' is frequent. It is, of course, a mere eye-rhyme, like many of Spenser's earlier. 'No bodily' _1647_ (pamphlet).] [Line: 23 shape] garb _1677_.] [Line: 24 of] to _1677_.] [Line: 25 'Twill break' _1647_, _1653_. tailor's] jailor's _1647_, _1651_, _1653_.] [Line: 29 _1653_, but obviously by a mere misprint, 'co_u_rser'.] [Line: 31 _1647_, _1651_, _1653_ '_the_ college'. It is said that the definite article usually at this time designates 'the College _of Physicians_'. But, as Mr. Berdan well observes, 'the case was unfortunately too common to admit of identification'. Cleveland's restless wit was not idle in calling 'Manchester's elves'--the Parliamentary troops--'changelings'. The soldier ought to be a King's man: and indeed pretended to be.] [Line: 32 _1647_ (pamphlet) 'reformed'.] [Line: 40 This and l. 47 are examples of the Drydenian line before Dryden, so frequent in Cleveland.] [Line: 46 = 'The unborn child of a cloud'.] [Line: 47 Alliteration, and some plausibility of verse, seduced _1677_ into 'of State', but I think 'fate' is better.] [Line: 50 checks] shrinks _1647_, _1651_, _1653_.] [Lines: 55-6 _1647_, _1651_, _1653_ read