ll. 37-41. These lines are correctly printed in _1633_, though the old use of the semicolon to indicate at one time a little less than a full stop, at another just a little more than a comma, has caused confusion. I have, therefore, ventured to alter the first (after 'farre') to a full stop, and the second (after 'duties') to a comma. '_That_', says Donne (the italics give emphasis), 'was the iron age when justice was sold. Now' (in this 'age of rusty iron') 'injustice is sold dearer. Once you have allowed all the demands made on you, you find, suitors (and suitors are gamblers), that the money you toiled for has passed into other hands, the lands for which you urged your rival claims has escaped you, as Angelica escaped while Ferrau and Rinaldo fought for her.' To the reading of the editions _1635-54_, which Chambers has adopted (but by printing in roman letters he makes 'that' a relative pronoun, and 'iron age' subject to 'did allow'), I can attach no meaning: The iron Age _that_ was, when justice was sold (now Injustice is sold dearer) did allow All claim'd fees and duties. Gamesters anon. How did the iron age allow fees and duties? The text of _1669_ reverts to that of _1633_ (keeping the 'claim'd fees' of _1635-54_), but does not improve the punctuation by changing the semicolon after 'farre' to a comma. Mr. Allen (_Rise of Formal Satire, &c._) points out that the allusion to the age of 'rusty iron', which deserves some worse name, is obviously derived from Juvenal XIII. 28 ff.: Nunc aetas agitur, peioraque saecula ferri Temporibus: quorum sceleri non invenit ipsa Nomen, et a nullo posuit natura metallo. With Donne's so controverted lands Scape, like Angelica, the strivers hands compare Chaucer's We strive as did the houndes for the boon Thei foughte al day and yet hir parte was noon: Ther cam a kyte, whil that they were so wrothe, And bar away the boon betwixt hem bothe. And therfore at the kynges country brother Eche man for himself, there is noon other. _Knightes Tale_, ll. 319 ff. ll. 45-6. _powre of the Courts below Flow._ Grosart and Chambers silently alter to 'Flows', but both the editions and MSS. have the plural form. Franz notes the construction in Shakespeare: The venom of such looks, we fairly hope, Have lost their quality. _Hen. V_, V. ii. 18. All the power of his wits have given way to his impatience. _Lear_, III. v. 4. The last is a very close parallel. The proximity of the plural noun in the prepositional phrase is the chief determining factor, but in some cases the combined noun and qualifying phrase has a plural force--'such venomous looks', 'his mental powers or faculties.'