[Line: 4 _1677_ '_by_ art'.] [Line: 6 _1677_ '_in_ soft'.] [Line: 8 Thomas Bushel[l] or Bushnell (1594-1674) was a page of Bacon's and afterwards a great 'projector' in mining and mechanical matters generally. He dabbled largely in fancy fountains and waterworks--a queer taste of the seventeenth century in which even the sober Evelyn records his own participation.] [Lines: 9-10 Cf. the opening of the elegy on King, 'I like not tears in tune'.] [Line: 11 _1647_, _1651_, _1653_, &c. '_when_ he mourns', which is hardly so good.] [Line: 18 Seth's pillars] A tradition, preserved in Josephus, that the race of Seth engraved antediluvian wisdom on two pillars, one of brick, the other of stone, the latter of which outlasted the Deluge.] [Line: 20 _1647_, _1651_, _1653_, &c. '_From_ much'.] [Line: 34 _1647_, _1651_ misprint '_Agena_-like.] [Line: 35 _1653_ misprints 'blackish'.] [Line: 38 _1647_, _1651_, _1653_ 'noble'.] [Line: 44 _1677_, omitting the comma at 'act', makes something like nonsense; 'by prophecy' goes, I think, with 'adjudged to die'.] [Line: 50 One would expect 'Chesterfield', for Grantham nowadays does not look very crooked--at least from the railway. But Fuller in the _Worthies_ quotes this as a proverb. Some take it as referring to the height and slenderness of the steeple and an optical illusion. They might quote 'The high masts _flickered_ as they lay afloat'. But few travellers had the excuse of Iphigenia.] *On I. W. A. B. of York.