[Line: 44 A difficulty has been made about 'collegiate', but there is surely none. The word (or 'colleg_ian_') is old slang, and hardly slang for 'jail-bird'. The double use of the Tower as a prison and a menagerie should of course be remembered.] [Line: 45 high-shoes] Country folk in boots. termly] = 'when they came up to business'.] [Line: 51 Crawford] Ludovic, sixteenth Earl, who fought bravely all through the Rebellion, served after the downfall in France and Spain, and died, it is not accurately known when or where, but about 1652.] [Line: 52 A fine line. _1677_ does not improve it by reading '_their_ land'.] [Lines: 63-4 The central and most often quoted couplet.] [Lines: 65-6 follow 70 in the _MS._] [Line: 67 at rovers] Common for shooting not at a definite mark, but at large.] [Line: 70 epidemical] In the proper sense of 'travelling from country to country', not doubtless without the transferred one of a 'travelling _plague_'.] [Line: 74 States] not the Provinces; but the representative Hogan Mogans themselves.] [Line: 78 'Ostrich' in _1677_: _1647_, _1651,_ and _1653_ the older 'estrich'.] [Line: 80 hang] string _1677_.] [Line: 81 'But why should we be made your frantic choice?' _MS._] [Line: 82 'England too hath emerods' _MS._] [Line: 83 _1651_, _1653_ have a middle form between 'emerod' and 'hemorrhoid'--'Hemeroids'. _1647_ 'Hemerods'.] [Line: 84 _1647_, _1651_, _1653_ and its group, oddly, 'posture'.] [Line: 89 The Parliamentary bribe or Danegelt of 1641.] [Line: 95 'left' _1653_, &c., _1677_: 'gave' _1647_, _1651_. The _MS._ reads 'But they may justly quit their leaner soil. 'Tis to lard ...'] [Line: 101 _1651_, _1653_ 'goodly', but here, I think, the old is not the better.] [Line: 107 'money' _1647_, _1651_, _1653_: 'moneys' _1677_.] [Line: 108 _1647_, _1653_, &c. 'pound', wrongly. Twenty Scots pence = not quite two-pence English. Therefore 'well so'.] [Line: 118 _1641_, _1651_, and _1653_ 'the Spaniards', but 'some' (_1677_) is more pointed.] [Line: 120 Erasmus] Regarded as neither Papist nor Protestant?] [Cleveland never wrote anything else of this force and fire: and it, or parts of it, were constantly revived when the occasion presented itself.] The Scots' Apostasy.