How to devote things living in due form My verse shall tell, thou in thy tablets write. For gods of earth and gods of heaven each three; For heavenly pure white; for gods of earth Cattle of kindred hue divide in three, And on the altar lay thy sacrifice. For gods infernal bury deep, and cast The blood into a trench. For gentle Nymphs Honey and gifts of Dionysus pour. Eusebius: _Praeparatio Evangelica_, iv. 9 (trans. E. H. Gifford, 1903). l. 47. _The Nose_ (_like to the first Meridian_) 'In the state of nature we consider the light, as the sunne, to be risen at the Moluccae, in the farthest East; In the state of the law we consider it as the sunne come to Ormus, the first Quadrant; but in the Gospel to be come to the Canaries, the fortunate Ilands, the first Meridian. Now whatsoever is beyond this, is Westward, towards a Declination.' _Sermons_ 80. 68. 688. 'Longitude is length, and in the heavens it is understood the distance of any starre or Planet, from the begining of Aries to the place of the said Planet or Starre ... Otherwise, longitude in the earth, is the distance of the Meridian of any place, from the Meridian which passeth over the Isles of Azores, where the beginning of longitude is said to be.' _The Sea-mans Kalender_, 1632. But ancient Cosmographers placed the first meridian at the Canaries. See note to p. 187, l. 2. PAGE =118=, l. 52. _Not faynte Canaries but Ambrosiall._ The 'Canary' of several MSS. is probably right--an adjective, like 'Ambrosiall'. By 'faynte' is meant 'faintly odorous' as opposed to 'Ambrosial', i.e. 'divinely fragrant; perfumed as with Ambrosia' (O.E.D.). 'Fruit that ambrosial smell diffus'd': Milton, _Par. Lost_, ix. 852. The text gives an earlier use of both these words in this meaning than any indicated by the O.E.D. William Morris uses the same adjective in a somewhat ambiguous way but meaning, I suppose, 'weak, ready to die': Where still mid thoughts of August's quivering gold Folk hoed the wheat, and clipped the vine in trust Of faint October's purple-foaming must. _Earthly Paradise, Atalanta's Race._ PAGE =119=. ELEGIE XIX. PAGE =120=, l. 17. _then safely tread._ The 'safely' of so many MSS., including _W_, seems to me a more likely reading than 'softly'. The latter was probably suggested by the 'soft' of the following line. The 'safely' means of course that even without her shoes she will not be hurt. l. 22. _Ill spirits._ It is not easy to decide between the 'Ill' of _1669_ and some MSS. and the 'All' of some other MSS. Besides those enumerated, two lesser MSS., viz. the Sloane MSS. 542 and 1792, read 'all'. In _Elegie IV_, l. 68, 'all' is written for 'ill' in _B_.