[Footnote 167: "The moon:" the Turkish crescent.]
[Footnote 168: "Another Sylvester:" the Pope in James II."s time is here compared to him that governed the Romish Church in the time of Constantine.]
[Footnote 169: "British line:" St Helen, mother of Constantine the Great, was an Englishwoman.]
[Footnote 170: "Fatal Ore:" the sandbank on which the Duke of York had like to have been lost in 1682, on his voyage to Scotland, is known by the name of Lemman Ore.]
[Footnote 171: "Fiends:" the malcontents who doubted the truth of the birth are here compared to the evil spirits that tempted our Saviour in the wilderness.]
[Footnote 172: "aeneas:" see Virgil; aeneid, I.]
[Footnote 173: "Edward:" Edward the Black Prince, born on Trinity Sunday.]
[Footnote 174: "Patron of our isle": St George.]
[Footnote 175: "Araunah"s threshing-floor:" alluding to the pa.s.sage in 1 Kings xxiv.]
[Footnote 176: "Unnamed as yet:" the prince was christened but not named when this poem was published.]
[Footnote 177: "Tetragrammaton:" Jehovah, or the name of G.o.d, unlawful to be p.r.o.nounced by the Jews.]
[Footnote 178: "Rome was kept concealed:" some authors say, that the true name of Rome was kept a secret.]
[Footnote 179: "Crete:" Candia, where Jupiter was born and bred secretly.]
[Footnote 180: "Brain was born:" Pallas or Minerva, said by the poets to have sprung from the brain of Jove, and to have been bred up by hand, as was this young prince.]
[Footnote 181: "Sudden blast:" the sudden false report of the prince"s death.]
[Footnote 182: "Moments grow:" those giants are feigned to have grown fifteen yards every day.]
[Footnote 183: "Shunamite:" see 2 Kings iv.]
[Footnote 184: "Ark their guard:" see 1 Sam. iv. 10.]
[Footnote 185: "Amalek can rout the chosen bands:" see Exod. xviii. 8.]
[Footnote 186: Aristides, surnamed the Just.]
END OF FIRST VOLUME.