3. Explain the meaning of each word in this line, and of the whole line. The next two stanzas comprise an invocation to the Muse of Poetry. See note 1, page 153. 4. =Wisards.= Wizards. Wise men. The word was originally used in this sense, and not with the depreciatory meaning of "magician," as at present. Spenser says: "Therefore the antique wizards well invented That Venus of the fomy sea was bred," meaning by "antique wizards" ancient philosophers. 5. =prevent.= Go before; the original meaning of the word, from Lat. _præ_, before, and _venio_, to go or come. "I prevented the dawning of the morning."--_Psalm_ cxix. 147. "I will have nothing to hinder me in the morning, for I will prevent the sun rising."--_Izaak Walton_, _Compleat Angler_. 6. =angel quire.= "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God."--_Luke_ ii, 13. 7. =paramour.= See note 9, page 80. 8. =maiden.= Pure, innocent, unpolluted. Compare "When I am dead, strew me o'er With maiden flowers." --_Shakespeare_, _Henry VIII_, Act iv, sc. 2. 9. =turning sphear.= The Ptolemaic system of astronomy taught that the earth was the centre of the universe, and that all the heavenly bodies revolved about it, being fixed in a complicated framework, or series of hollow crystalline spheres moving one within the other. The "turning sphear" is here this entire system of revolving spheres. See note 34, below. 10. =harbinger.= One who provides a resting-place for a superior person. It was the duty of the king's harbinger, when the court removed from one place to another, to provide lodgings for the king's retinue. Derived from _harbor_, _harborage_. The word "harbor" is from A.-S. _here_, army, and _beorg_, a refuge. Others derive the word from _har_, a message, and _bringer_--hence, one who brings a message, a herald. Parkes's _Topography of Hampstead_, 1818, contains the following: "The office of harbinger still exists in the Royal Household, the nominal duty of the officer being to ride one stage onward before the king on his progress, to provide lodging and provision for the court." The last knight-harbinger was Sir Henry Rycroft (appointed in 1816, died October, 1846, aged eighty). The office became extinct at his death. 11. =turtle.= Commonly _turtle-dove_. For history of the word as now applied to the tortoise, see Worcester's Dictionary. 12. =universall peace.= About the time of the birth of Christ there was peace throughout the Roman Empire, and the temple of Janus was shut. 13. =hooked chariot.= The war-chariot armed with scythes, a Celtic invention adopted by the Romans. 14. =awfull eye.= We would say, "awe-filled eyes." =sovran.= Old French _souverain_. Some derive it from Lat. _supra_, above, and _regno_, to reign.