That Officer are intail'd, and that there are As the laft day; and that great Officers I more amaz'd than Circes prifoners, when And fays, Sir, can you fpare me---? I faid, Willingly; Nay, Sir, can you fpare me a crown? Thankfully I Gave it, as ranfom; but as fidlers, ftill, Though they be paid to be gone, yet needs will, Thrust one more jigg upon you: fo did he With his long complimental thanks vex me. NOTES. VER. 167. fall endlong] The fudden effect of the transformation is ftrongly and finely painted to the imagination, not in Nay hints, 'tis by connivance of the Court, 164 I felt th' infection flide from him to me, As in the pox, fome give it to get free; In that nice moment, as another Lye Stood juft a-tilt, the Minifter came by. 170 175 180 I quak'd at heart; and ftill afraid, to fee Ran out as faft, as one that pays his bail And dreads more actions, hurries from a jail. Bear me, fome God! oh quickly bear me hence To wholfome Solitude, the nurfe of fenfe: 185 NOTES. the found, but in the fenfe of thefe two words. VER. 184. Bear me,] Thefe four lines are wonderfully fub But he is gone, thanks to his needy want, And the Prerogative of my Crown; scant My piteous foul began the wretchedness Of fuiters at court to mourn, and a trance I faw at court, and worse and more. Low fear Becomes the guilty, not th' accufer: Then, Shall I, none's flave, of high-born or rais'd men Fear frowns; and my mistress truth, betray thee For th' huffing, bragart, puft nobility? No, no, thou which fince yesterday haft been, Almost about the whole world, haft thou seen, O fun, in all thy journey, vanity, Such as fwells the bladder of our court? I NOTES. lime. His impatience in this region of vice, is like that of Vifgil, in the region of beat. They both call out as if they were half stifled by the fulphury air of the place, O qui me gelidis — O quickly bear me hence. Where Contemplation prunes her ruffled wings, 199 And forc'd ev'n me to fee the damn'd at Court. Not Dante dreaming all th' infernal state, Beheld such scenes of envy, fin, and hate. Care, if a liv'ry'd Lord or fmile or frown? O my fair mistress, Truth! fhall I quit thee 200 Thou, who fince yesterday haft roll'd o'er all Haft thou, oh Sun! beheld an emptier fort, NOTES. 205 VER. 188. There fober thought] Thefe two lines are remarkable for the delicacy and propriety of the expreffion. VER. 194. Bafe Fear Thefe four admirable lines become the high office he had affumed, and to nobly sustained. b Think he which made your Waxen garden, and Tranfported it from Italy, to stand With us at London, flouts our Courtiers; for Juft fuch gay painted things, which no fap, nor Some of the stocks are; their fruits baftard all. Wants reach all states: me feems they do as well NOTES. b A fhow of the Italian Garden in Waxwork, in the time of King James the First. That is, of wood. P. VER. 206. Court in wax!] A famous fhow of the Court of France, in-Wax-work. P. VER. 213. At Fig's, at White's,] White's was a noted gam |