15. _That from ye blow_. In Early English _ye_ is nominative, _you_ accusative (objective). This distinction, though observed in our version of the Bible, was disregarded by Elizabethan writers (Shakes. _Gr._ 236), as it has occasionally been by the poets even to our own day. Cf. Shakes. _Hen. VIII._ iii. 1: "The more shame for ye; holy men I thought ye;" Milton, _Comus_, 216: "I see ye visibly," etc. Dryden, in a couplet quoted by Guest, uses both forms in the same line: "What gain you by forbidding it to tease ye? It now can neither trouble _you_ nor please ye." 19. Gray quotes Dryden, _Fable on Pythag. Syst._: "And bees their honey redolent of spring." 21. _Say, father Thames_, etc. This invocation is taken from Green's _Grotto_: "Say, father Thames, whose gentle pace Gives leave to view, what beauties grace Your flowery banks, if you have seen." Cf. Dryden, _Annus Mirabilis_, st. 232: "Old father Thames raised up his reverend head." Dr. Johnson, in his hypercritical comments on this Ode, says: "His supplication to Father Thames, to tell him who drives the hoop or tosses the ball, is useless and puerile. Father Thames has no better means of knowing than himself." To which Mitford replies by asking, "Are we by this rule to judge the following passage in the twentieth chapter of _Rasselas_? 'As they were sitting together, the princess cast her eyes on the river that flowed before her: "Answer," said she, "great Father of Waters, thou that rollest thy floods through eighty nations, to the invocation of the daughter of thy native king. Tell me, if thou waterest, through all thy course, a single habitation from which thou dost not hear the murmurs of complaint."'" 23. _Margent green_. Cf. _Comus_, 232: "By slow Mæander's margent green." 24. Cf. Pope, _Essay on Man_, iii. 233: "To Virtue, in the paths of Pleasure, trod." 26. _Thy glassy wave_. Cf. _Comus_, 861: "Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave." 27. _The captive linnet_. The adjective is redundant and "proleptic," as the bird must be "enthralled" before it can be called "captive." 28. In the MS. this line reads, "To chase the hoop's illusive speed," which seems to us better than the revised form in the text. 30. Cf. Pope, _Dunciad_, iv. 592: "The senator at cricket urge the ball." 37. Cf. Cowley, _Ode to Hobbes_, iv. 7: "Till unknown regions it descries." 40. _A fearful joy_. Wakefield quotes _Matt._ xxviii. 8 and _Psalms_ ii. 11. Cf. Virgil, _Æn._ i. 513: "Obstupuit simul ipse simul perculsus Achates Laetitiaque metuque." See also _Lear_, v. 3: "'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief." 44. Cf. Pope, _Eloisa_, 209: "Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind;" and _Essay on Man_, iv. 168: "The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy."