[8]'Cytherea:' Venus, from Cythera, one of the Ionian Islands, where she was worshipped. [9]'As some tall tower:' Goldsmith has borrowed this fine image in his description of the good pastor's death, in the 'Deserted Village.' [10]'P----:' Portland. [11]'Didst lately borrow:' at the Duke of Norfolk's masquerade. [12]'Narcissa:' Mrs Temple. [13]'Nearer to the sun:' Mrs Temple died at Lyons, on her way to Nice, accompanied by her father. [14]Lines 270-289 paraphrase Psalms 24. Lines 270-300 provided an 'Easter Ode' popular in early 19th-Century American musical settings.-ee [15]'Manumit:' to free from slavery or bondage; emancipate. [16]'Paean:' healing song; hymn.--ee [17]'Athenian:' Socrates. [18]'Fable fledged:' Icarus. [19]'Glebe:' The soil or earth; land. (Archaic.)--ee [20]'Narcissa:' Elizabeth Lee, Dr. Young's step-daughter.--ee [21]'Lorenzo' was modelled on Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton (b. 21 December 1698; d. Poblet, Spain, 31 May 1731, aged 32), powerful Jacobite politician, notorious libertine and rake, profligate, and alcoholic.--ee [22]'Charles:' Charles V. [23]'Quotidian:' everyday; commonplace.--ee [24]'Oracle of gems:' the Urim and Thummim. [25]'Cockade:' an ornament, such as a rosette or knot of ribbon, usually worn on the hat as a badge.--ee [26]'Votary:' person bound by vows to a life of religious worship or service.--ee [27]'Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part:' hence Burns's famous line in his verses to Clarinda:-- 'Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.' [28]'She:' his wife, it is supposed. [29]'Most Christian:' Louis XIV., King of France. [30]'Ours is the cloth,' &c.: how like the lines of Coleridge!-- 'O Lady, we receive but what we give,' &c. [31]'Towering flame,' &c.: these lines are _reproduced_ in the close of Campbell's 'Pleasures of Hope.' [32]'Already:' Night Sixth. [33]'Bellerophon:' who carried letters from Proctus to Jobates, King of Lycia, which contained an order in cipher for his execution after nine days. He contrived, however, to escape. [34]'To Pyrrhus:' by a philosopher who told him he would have been as happy had he stayed at home, instead of pursuing a career of conquest. [35]'Proud Eastern:' Nebuchadnezzar. [36]'Thee:' Lorenzo. [37]'Lately proved:' in the Sixth Night. [38]'Presumption's sacrilegious sons:' Korah, &c. [39]'Lucia:' probably his wife. [40]'Uriel:' see Milton. [41]'Title:' The Infidel Reclaimed. [42]'Bible:' the poetical parts of it. [43]'Albion's cost:' Admiral Balchen, &c. [44]'Like a flag floating,' &c.: hence Wilson's line in his 'Address to a Wild-Deer:'-- 'Like a flag burning bright when the vessel is gone.' [45]'Fucus:' an old type of makeup.--ee [46]'Snuff:' a candle-end or wick.--ee [47]'Murray:' Lord Mansfield. [48]'Fabled boy:' Narcissus. [49]'Yorke:' Lord Chancellor Hardwick. [50]'Above:' in a former Night. [51]'Prussia:' under Frederick the Great.