[Footnote 61: Note XXI.] [Footnote 62: Note XXII.] [Footnote 63: Note XXIII.] [Footnote 64: Note XXIV.] [Footnote 65: Note XXV.] [Footnote 66: Note XXVI.] [Footnote 67: Note XXVII.] NOTES ON ASTRÆA REDUX. Note I. _An horrid stillness first invades the ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear._--P. 30. The small wits of the time made themselves very merry with this couplet; because stillness, being a mere absence of sound, could not, it was said, be personified, as an active agent, or invader. Captain Ratcliff thus states the objection in his "News from Hell:" Laureat, who was both learned and florid, Was damned, long since, for "silence horrid;" Nor had there been such clatter made, But that this Silence did "invade." Invade! and so't might well, 'tis clear; But what did it invade?--an ear. And for some other things, 'tis true, "We follow Fate, that does pursue." In the "Dialogue in Bedlam," between Oliver's porter, fiddler, and poet, the first of these persons thus addresses L'Estrange and Dryden, "the scene being adorned with several of the poet's own flowers:" O glory, glory! who are these appear? My fellow-servants, poet, fiddler, here? Old Hodge the constant, Johny the sincere! Who sent you hither? and, pray tell me, why? A horrid silence does invade my eye, While not one sound of voice from you I spy. But, as Dr Johnson justly remarks, we hesitate not to say, the world is invaded by darkness, which is a privation of light; and why not by silence, which is a privation of sound? Note II. _The ambitious Swede, like restless billows tost, On this hand gaining what on that he lost, Though in his life he blood and ruin breathed, To his now guideless kingdom peace bequeathed._--P. 30. The royal line of Sweden has produced more heroic and chivalrous monarchs, than any dynasty of Europe. The gallant Charles X. who is here mentioned, did not degenerate from this warlike stem. He was a nephew of the great Gustavus Adolphus; and, like him, was continually engaged in war, particularly against Poland and Austria. He died at Gottenburgh in 1660, and the peace of Sweden was soon afterwards restored by the treaty of Copenhagen. Note III. _We sighed to hear the fair Iberian bride Must grow a lily to the lily's side._--P. 31.