116 144 _The mountain-nymph_; compare Wordsworth's Sonnet, No. 254. L. 38 is in _apposition_ to the preceding, by a syntactical license not uncommon with Milton. 118 -- l. 14 _Cynosure_; the Pole Star. _Corydon_, _Thyrsis_, &c.: Shepherd names from the old Idylls. _Rebeck_ (l. 28) an elementary form of violin. 119 -- l. 24 _Jonson's learned sock_: His comedies are deeply coloured by classical study. L. 28 _Lydian airs_: used here to express a light and festive style of ancient music. The 'Lydian Mode,' one of the seven original Greek Scales, is nearly identical with our 'Major.' 120 145 l. 3 _bestead_: avail. L. 10 _starr'd Ethiop queen_: Cassiopeia, the legendary Queen of Ethiopia, and thence translated amongst the constellations. 121 -- _Cynthia_: the Moon: Milton seems here to have transferred to her chariot the dragons anciently assigned to Demeter and to Medea. 122 -- _Hermes_, called Trismegistus, a mystical writer of the Neo-Platonist school. L. 27 _Thebes_, &c.: subjects of Athenian Tragedy. _Buskin'd_ (l. 30) tragic, in opposition to sock above. L. 32 _Musaeus_: a poet in Mythology. L. 37 _him that left half-told_: Chaucer in his incomplete 'Squire's Tale.' 123 -- _great bards_: Ariosto, Tasso, and Spenser, are here presumably intended. L. 9 _frounced_: curled. _The Attic Boy_ (l. 10) Cephalus. 124 146 Emigrants supposed to be driven towards America by the government of Charles I. 125 -- l. 9, 10. _But apples_, &c. A fine example of Marvell's imaginative hyperbole. -- 147 l. 6 _concent_: harmony. 128 149 A lyric of a strange, fanciful, yet solemn beauty:--Cowley's style intensified by the mysticism of Henry More.--St. 2 _monument_: the World. 129 151 Entitled 'A Song in Honour of St. Cecilia's Day: 1697.' _Summary of Book Third_