'May there always be heirs of James to receive thanks, of you two to give; and may this mutual relation owe everything to nature and grace, the goodness of your descendants, the grace of the king, nothing to art, to policy and flattery.' That is the only meaning I can give to the line. The only change in _1633_ is that of a comma to a full stop, a big change in value, a small one typographically. PAGE =139=, l. 200. _they doe not set so too_; I have changed the full stop after 'too' to a semicolon, as the 'Therefore thou maist' which follows is an immediate inference from these two lines. 'You rose at the same hour this morning, but you (the bride) must go first to bed.' ll. 204-5. _As he that sees, &c._ 'I have sometimes wondered in the reading what was become of those glaring colours which amazed me in _Bussy D'Ambois_ upon the theatre; but when I had taken up what I supposed a fallen star, I found I had been cozened with a jelly; nothing but a cold, dull mass, which glittered no longer than it was a-shooting.' Dryden, _The Spanish Friar_. In another place Dryden uses the figure in a more poetic or at least ambitious fashion: The tapers of the gods, The sun and moon, run down like waxen globes; The shooting stars end all in purple jellies, And chaos is at hand. _Oedipus_, II. i. The idea was a common one, but I have no doubt that Dryden owed his use of it as an image to Donne. There is no poet from whom he pilfers 'wit' more freely. PAGE =140=, ll. 215-16. _Now, as in Tullias tombe_, i.e. Cicero's daughter. 'According to a ridiculous story, which some of the moderns report, in the age of Pope Paul III a monument was discovered on the Appian road with the superscription _Tulliolae filiae meae_; the body of a woman was found in it, which was reduced to ashes as soon as touched; there was also a lamp burning, which was extinguished as soon as the air gained admission there, and which was supposed to have been lighted above 1500 years.' Lemprière. See Browne, _Vulgar Errors_, iii. 21. PAGE =141=, l. 17. _Help with your presence and devise to praise._ I have dropped the comma after 'presence' because it suggests to us, though it did not necessarily do so to seventeenth-century readers, that 'devise' here is a verb--both Dr. Grosart and Mr. Chambers have taken it as such--whereas it is the noun 'device' = fancy, invention. Their fancy and invention is to be shown in the attiring of the bride: Conceitedly dresse her, and be assign'd By you, fit place for every flower and jewell, Make her for love fit fewell As gay as Flora, and as rich as Inde. 'Devise to praise' would be a very awkward construction.