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No. 6. These verses were first printed in England's Helicon (1600), where the signature is Ignoto. They were also printed in Walton's Compleat Angler (1653) as "made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days.

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9. Neat, an ox or cow. Round, a dance. Wake, a fair. Quintels, a game in which a post was tilted at with poles, probably something analogous to the mounted pastime of riding at the quintin. Morris-dance, a dance derived through Spain from the Moors (Morisco, or in French Morisque); it was very popular during the sixteenth century in England, where it seems to have become united with an older pageant commemorative of Robin Hood and Maid Marian ; it was still practised in some parts of England, though in a much modified form, in the early years of the present century: see Chambers's Book of Days, i, 630-33. Fox-in-the-hole, a game in which boys hopped on one leg and lashed each other with whips; possibly a more robust form of hop-scotch. Cockrood, probably a road, or run for woodcocks.

11. Sheaf, character, disposition.

12. Mood, measure, musical accompaniment. Recorders, a kind of flute or flageolet. Amerced, deprived.

13. Pelting, paltry.

15. Daffed, put aside with scorn. Estridges, hawks. 16. Skeely skipper, a good sailor.

Lift, the sky.

Gurly, threatening, rough. Aboon, above.

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Kaims, combs. See the notes to this ballad in
Sir Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish
Border.

No. 17. The friend commemorated in this elegy was
Edward King, Milton's contemporary at Cam-
bridge. Sisters of the sacred well, the Muses,
believed to frequent the Pierian spring at the
foot of Mount Olympus. Battening, refresh-
ing. Mona and Deva, Anglesey and the river
Dee; these places are introduced as being near
the scene of the shipwreck. Arethuse and
Mincius, a Sicilian fountain and an Italian
river, mentioned in allusion to the pastoral
poetry of Theocritus and Virgil; Mantua,
Virgil's birthplace, is on the banks of the
Mincius (now Mincio). Oat, pipe, or flute.
Hippotades, Eolus, the god of the winds.
Panopè, one of the Nereids. Swart star, the
Dog-star. Rathe, early. Bellerus, apparently
created by Milton to personify Belerium, the
ancient name of the Land's End.
The great
vision of the guarded mount; Namancos (now
Mujio) and Bayona, two towns in Galicia, in
the north-west corner of Spain, are selected as
representing the land due south of Saint
Michael's Mount, off the Cornish coast, towards
which therefore it may be said to look.
18. Cromwell returned from Ireland in 1650.
bleeding head; when the foundations of the
Roman Capitol were being dug, in the reign of
the first Tarquin, a human head was found,
which the augurs interpreted as a sign that the
Capitoline Hill should become the head of all
the.earth.

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21. Saint Crispin's Day; the battle of Agincourt was fought on October 25th, 1415, when the English, under Henry the Fifth, totally defeated a greatly superior French force under the Constable D'Albret.

24. Peregrine Bertie, Lord Willoughby de Eresby, succeeded the Earl of Leicester as commander of the English forces in the Netherlands in