For gold in phisik is a cordial, Therefore he lovede gold in special.' Burton, _Anatomy of Melancholy_, Pt. 2, Sub. 4. ELEGIE XII. PAGE =101=, l. 37. _And mad'st us sigh and glow_: 'sigh and blow' has been the somewhat inelegant reading of all editions hitherto. l. 42. _And over all thy husbands towring eyes._ The epithet 'towring' is strange and the MSS. show some vacillation. Most of them read 'towred', probably the past participle of the same verb, though Grosart alters to 'two red'--not a very poetical description. _RP31_ here diverges from _H40_ and reads 'loured', perhaps for 'lurid', but both these MSS. alter the order of the words and attach the epithet to 'husbands', which is manifestly wrong, and the Grolier Club edition prints 'lowering' without comment, regarding, I suppose, 't' as a mistake for 'l'. The 'towring' of _1669_ and _TCD_ is probably correct, being a bold metaphor from hawking, and having the force practically of 'threatening'. The hawk towers threateningly above its prey before it 'sousing kills with a grace'. If 'towring' is not right, 'lowring' is the most probable emendation. PAGE =102=, l. 43. _That flam'd with oylie sweat of jealousie._ This is the reading of all the MSS., and as on the whole their text is superior I have followed it. If 'oylie' is, as I think, the right epithet, it means 'moist', as in 'an oily palm', with perhaps a reference to the inflammability of oil. If 'ouglie '(i.e. ugly) be preferred it is a forcible transferred epithet. l. 49. _most respects?_ This is the reading of all the MSS., and 'best' in _1669_ is probably an emendation. The use of 'most' as an adjective, superlative of 'great', is not uncommon: God's wrong is most of all. Shakespeare, _Rich. III_, IV. iv. 377. Though in this place most master wear no breeches. Ibid., _2 Hen. VI_, I. iii. 144. l. 54. I can make no exact sense of this line either as it stands in _1669_ or in the MSS. One is tempted to combine the versions and read: Yea thy pale colours, and thy panting heart, the 'secrets of our Art' being all the signs by which they communicated to one another their mutual affection. But it is necessary to explain the presence of 'inwards' or 'inward' in both the versions. PAGE =103=, l. 79. _The Summer how it ripened in the eare_; This fine passage has been rather spoiled in all editions hitherto by printing in this line 'yeare' for 'eare', even in modernized texts. The MSS. and the sense both show that 'eare' is the right word, and indeed I have no doubt that 'year' in _1635_ was simply due to a compositor's or copyist's pronunciation. It occurs again in the 1669 edition in the song _Twicknam Garden_ (p. 28, l. 3): And at mine eyes, and at mine years,