are, and nearly
all the poets of his time, disregarded the quantity of Latin
names. The poet has here placed the accent on the first syllable,
instead of the second.]

[Footnote I.99: _That lets me:_] To let, in the sense in which it
is here used, means to hinder--to obstruct--to oppose. The word
is derived from the Saxon.]

[Footnote I.100: _To fast in fires_,] Chaucer has a similar
passage with regard to eternal punishment--_"And moreover the
misery of Hell shall be in default of meat and drink."_]

[Footnote I.101: _Harrow up thy soul_;] Agitate and convulse.]

[Footnote I.102: _Hair to stand on end_,] A common image of that
day.

"_Standing_ as frighted with _erected haire_."]

[Footnote I.103: _The fretful porcupine:_] This animal being
considered irascible and timid.]

[Footnote I.104: _Eternal blazon_] _i.e._, publication or
divulgation of things eternal.]

[Footnote I.105: _Rots itself in ease on Lethe wharf_,] _i.e._,
in indolence and sluggishness, by its torpid habits contributes
to that morbid state of its juices which may figuratively be
denominated rottenness.]

[Footnote I.106: _Orchard_,] Garden.]

[Footnote I.107: _Forged process_] _i.e._, false report of
proceedings.]

[Footnote I.108: _Decline upon a wretch._] Stoop with degradation
to.]

[Footnote I.109: _Secure_] Unguarded.]

[Footnote I.110: _Hebenon_] Hebenon is described by Nares in his
Glossary, as the juice of ebony, supposed to be a deadly poison.]

[Footnote I.111: _Despatch'd:_] Despoiled--bereft.]

[Footnote I.112: _Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd_;] To
_housel_ is to minister the sacrament to one lying on his death
bed. _Disappointed_ is the same as unappointed, which here means
unprepared. _Unanel'd_ is without extreme unction.]

[Footnote I.113: _Luxury_] Lasciviousness.]

[Footnote I.114: _Pale his uneffectual fire:_] _i.e._, not seen
by the light of day; or it may mean, shining without heat.]

[Footnote I.115: _In this distracted globe._] _i.e._, his head
distracted with thought.]

[Footnote I.116: _Pressures past_,] Impressions heretofore made.]

[Footnote I.117: _Come, bird, come._] This is the call which
falconers used to their hawk in the air when they would have him
come down to them.]

[Footnote I.118:

_There's ne'er