Mine, and Leander's mine, Leander's mine. O, see what wealth it yields me, nay, yields him! For I am in it, he for me doth swim. Rich, fruitful love, that, doubling self estates, Elixir-like contracts, though separates! Dear place, I kiss thee, and do welcome thee, As from Leander ever sent to me." FOOTNOTES: [45] Old eds. "improving." [46] "He calls Phoebus the god of gold, since the virtue of his beams creates it."--Marginal note in the Isham copy. [47] The reader will remember how grimly Lady Macbeth plays upon this word:-- "I'll _gild_ the faces of the grooms withal: For it must seem their _guilt_."--ii. 2. [48] "It is not likely that Burns had ever read _Hero and Leander_, but compare _Tam o' Shanter_-- 'But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed, Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white--then melts for ever!'" --_Cunningham._ [49] In _England's Parnassus_ the reading is "of men audacious." [50] Wholly. [51] Some eds. give "For as she was." [52] A magical figure formed of intersected triangles. It was supposed to preserve the wearer from the assaults of demons. "Disparent would seem to mean that the five points of the ornaments radiated distinctly one from the other."--_Cunningham._ [53] Old eds. "her." [54] Heated. [55] Old eds. "how." [56] Substance, as opposed to spirit. Cf. note. Vol. i., 203. [57] Cadiz, which was taken in June 21, 1596, by the force under the joint command of Essex and Howard of Effingham. [58] So the Isham copy.--The other old eds. read "townes," for which Dyce gives "town." [59] Within. [60] Vent forth. [61] "Fowl" and "fool" had the same pronunciation. Cf. _3 Henry VI._ v. 6:-- "Why, what a peevish _fool_ was he of Crete, That taught his son the office of a _fowl_! And yet for all his wings the _fool_ was drowned." The "moorish fool" is explained by the allusion to the lapwing, two lines above. (The lapwing was supposed to draw the searcher from her nest by crying in other places. "The lapwing cries most furthest from her nest."--_Ray's Proverbs._) [62] A kind of crape. [63] So the modern editors for an "imitating." [64] Ingenious. Chapman has the form "enginous" in his translation of the Odyssey, i. 452, "By open force or prospects _enginous_." [65] Some modern editors unnecessarily give "With _crowd_ of sail." [66] Old eds. "joys." [67] Old eds. "he." [68] Some eds. give "For such a Hero." [69] Command. THE FOURTH SESTIAD. _The Argument of the Fourth Sestiad._