'To conjure is nothing else than to observe anything rightly, to know and to understand what it is. The crystal is a figure of the air. Whatever appears in the air, movable or immovable, the same appears also in the speculum or crystal as a wave. For the air, the water, and the crystal, so far as vision is concerned, are one, like a mirror in which an inverted copy of an object is seen.' The old name for crystal-gazers was 'specularii'. Mr. Chambers suggests very probably that there is a reference to Dr. Dee's magic mirrors or 'show stone', but one would like to explain the reference to the cutting of the stone on the one hand, and its being no longer to be found on the other. l. 16. _Loves but their oldest clothes._ The 'her' of _B_ is a tempting reading in view of the 'woman' which follows, but 'their' is the common version and the poet's mind passes rapidly to and fro between the abstract and its concrete embodiments. The proleptic use of the pronoun is striking in either case. Compare _To Mrs. M. H._, p. 217, ll. 31-2. l. 18. _Vertue attir'd in woman see._ The reading of the 1633 edition, which is that of the best manuscripts, has more of Donne's characteristic hyperbole than the metrically more regular 'Vertue in woman see'. 'If you can see the Idea of Vertue attired in the visible form of woman and love that.' PAGE =11=. THE SUNNE RISING. Compare Ovid, _Amores_, I. 13. Iam super oceanum venit a seniore marito, Flava pruinoso quae vehit axe diem. Quo properas, Aurora? . . . Quo properas, ingrata viris, ingrata puellis? . . . Tu pueros somno fraudas, tradisque magistris, Ut subeant tenerae verbera saeva manus. A comparison of Ovid's simple and natural images and reflections with Donne's passionate but ingenious hyperboles will show exactly what Testi meant by his contrast of the homely imagery of classical and the metaphysical manner of Italian love poetry. l. 17. _both th' India's of spice and Myne._ A distinction that Donne is never tired of. 'The use of the word mine specifically for mines of gold, silver, or precious stone is, I believe, peculiar to Donne.' Coleridge, quoted by Norton. The O.E.D. does not contradict this, for the word had a wider connotation. Compare _Loves exchange_, p. 35, ll. 34-35: and make more Mynes in the earth, then Quarries were before. And _The Progresse of the Soule_, p. 295, l. 17: thy Western land of Myne. And for the two Indias: 'As hee that hath a plentifull fortune in Europe, cares not much though there be no land of perfumes in the East, nor of gold, in the West-Indies.' _Sermons_ 50. 15. 123. And 'Sir. Your way into Spain was eastward, and that is the way to the land of perfumes and spices; their way hither is westward, and that is the way to the land of gold and of mines,' &c. _To Sir Robert Ker._ Gosse's _Life, &c._, ii. 191.