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FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 161:  ‘Solemn Sabbath:’  Whit-Sunday.]

[Footnote 162:  ‘Wondrous octave:’  Trinity Sunday.]

[Footnote 163:  ‘The Dragon:’  alluding only to the Commonwealth party, here and in other places of the poem.]

[Footnote 164:  ‘The travail:’  see Rev. xii. 4.]

[Footnote 165:  ‘Alcides:’  Hercules.]

[Footnote 166:  ‘Sign:’  the sign of the cross, as denoting the Roman Catholic faith.]

[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 passage 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 God, unlawful to be pronounced 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.]

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