Who scarfed her with the morning? and who set Upon her brow the day-fall's carcanet? _Ode to the Setting Sun._ PAGE =91=, l. 10. _Sanserra's starved men._ 'When I consider what God did for Goshen in Egypt ... How many Sancerraes he hath delivered from famines, how many Genevas from plots and machinations.' _Sermons._ The Protestants in Sancerra were besieged by the Catholics for nine months in 1573, and suffered extreme privations. Norton quotes Henri Martin, _Histoire de France_, ix. 364: 'On se disputa les débris les plus immondes de toute substance animale ou végétale; on créa, pour ainsi dire, des aliments monstrueux, impossibles.' ll. 13-14. _And like vile lying stones in saffrond tinne, Or warts, or wheales, they hang upon her skinne._ Following the MSS. I have made 'lying' an epithet attached to 'stones' and substituted 'they hang' for the superficially more grammatical 'it hangs'. The readings of _1633_, 'vile stones lying' and 'it hangs', seem to me just the kind of changes a hasty editor would make, the kind of changes which characterize the Second Folio of Shakespeare. The stones are not only 'vile'; they are 'lying', inasmuch as they pretend to be what they are not, as the 'saffron'd tinne' pretends to be gold. l. 19. _Thy head_: i.e. 'the head of thy mistress.' Donne continues this construction in ll. 25, 32, 39, and I have restored it from the later editions and MSS. at l. 34, 'thy gouty hand.' l. 34. _thy gouty hand_: 'thy' is the reading of all the editions except _1633_ and of all the MSS. except _JC_ and _S_. It is probably right, corresponding to l. 19 'Thy head' and l. 32 'thy tann'd skins'. Donne uses 'thy' in a condensed fashion for 'the head of thy mistress', &c. PAGE =92=, l. 51. _And such._ The 'such' of the MSS. is doubtless right, the 'nice' of the editions being repeated from l. 49. PAGE =92=. ELEGIE IX. For the date, &c., of this poem, see the introductory note on the _Elegies_. The text of _1633_ diverges in some points from that of all the MSS., in some others it agrees with _D_, _H49_, _Lec_. In the latter case I have retained it, but where _D_, _H49_, _Lec_ agree with the rest of the MSS. I have corrected _1633_, e.g.: PAGE =93=, l. 6. _Affection here takes Reverences name_: where 'Affection' seems more appropriate than 'Affections'; and l. 8. _But now shee's gold_: where 'They are gold' of _1633_ involves a very loose use of 'they'. Possibly _1633_ here gives a first version afterwards corrected.