MILTON.  “Colkitto or Macdonnel or Galasp.”  In this line of Sonnet XI, Milton seems to speak of three different persons, but in reality they are one and the same; i.e., Macdonnel, son of Colkittoch, son of Gillespie (Galasp).  Colkittoch means left-handed.

In Comus (ver. 880) he makes the siren Ligea sleek her hair with a golden comb, as if she were a Scandinavian mermaid.

MOORE (Thom.) says: 

  The sunflower turns on her god, when he sets,
  The same look which she turned when he rose.

Irish Melodies, ii. ("Believe Me, if all those Endearing Young Charms").

The sunflower does not turn either to the rising or setting sun.  It receives its name solely because it resembles a picture sun.  It is not a turn-sun or heliotrope at all.

MORRIS (W.), in his Atalanta’s Race, renders the Greek word Saophron “safron,” and says: 

  She the saffron gown will never wear,
  And in no flower-strewn couch shall she be laid;

i.e. she will never be a bride.  Nonnius (bk. xii.) tells us that virtuous women wore a girdled gown called Saophron ("chaste"), to indicate their purity and to prevent indecorous liberties.  The gown was not yellow at all, but it was girded with a girdle.

MURPHY, in the Grecian Daughter, says (act i. 1): 

  Have you forgot the elder Dionysius,
  Surnamed the Tyrant?...  Evander came from Greece,
  And sent the tyrant to his humble rank,
  Once more reduced to roam for vile subsistence,
  A wandering sophist thro’ the realms of Greece.

It was not Dionysius the Elder, but Dionysius the Younger, who was the “wandering sophist;” and it was not Evander, but Timoleon, who dethroned him.  The elder Dionysius was not dethroned at all, nor even reduced “to humble rank.”  He reigned thirty-eight years without interruption, and died a king, in the plentitude of his glory, at the age of 63.

In the same play (act iv. 1) Euphrasia says to Dionysius the Younger: 

  Think of thy father’s fate at Corinth, Dionysius.

It was not the father, but the son, (Dionysius the Younger) who lived in exile at Corinth.

In the same play he makes Timo’leon victorious over the Syracusans (that is historically correct); and he makes Euphrasia stab Dionysius the Younger, whereas he retreated to Corinth, and spent his time in debauchery, but supported himself by keeping a school.  Of his death nothing is known, but certainly he was not stabbed to death by Euphrasia.—­See Plutarch.

RYMER, in his Foedera, ascribes to Henry I. (who died in 1135) a preaching expedition for the restoration of Rochester Church, injured by fire in 1177 (vol.  I i. 9).

In the previous page Rymer ascribes to Henry I. a deed of gift from “Henry, king of England and lord of Ireland;” but every one knows that Ireland was conquered by Henry II., and the deed referred to was the act of Henry III.