g the stars.

_Sea-nymphs_ = Nereids.

Vesta_, the Goddess of the hearth; here for _Retirement. Saturn_, as
having introduced, according to the mythology, civilization, here stands
for _culture_.

_Commercing_ = holding communion with. Notice the accentuation.

_Forget thyself to marble_ = forget thyself till thou are still and
silent as marble.

_Hist along_ = bring along with a hush. _Hist_ is connected with _hush_.

_Philomel_ = the nightingale.

_Cynthia_ = the moon.

_Dragon yoke_. Compare "Night's swift dragons," ('Midsummer Night's
Dream').

_Removed place_ = remote or retired place. Compare "some removed ground"
in 'Hamlet.'

_Nightly_ = by night. Sometimes it means "every night successively."

_Thrice-great Hermes_, a translation of Hermes Trismegistus, a fabulous
king of Egypt, held to be the inventor of Alchemy and Astronomy.

_Unsphere_, draw from his sphere or station.

_The immortal mind_. Plato treats of the immortality of the soul chiefly
in the _Phaedo_. The _demon_, with Socrates, is the attendant genius
of an individual; with Plato it is more general; and the assigning the
demons to the four elements is a notion of the later Platonists.

_Sceptered pall_ = royal robe.

_Presenting Thebes_, &c. These lines represent the subjects of tragedies
by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the great tragic poets of
Athens.

_Musaeus_, here for some bard of the distant past, generally. Musaeus,
in mythology, is a bard of Thrace, and son of Orpheus.

_Half-told the story of Cambuscan bold_. The Squire's Tale in Chaucer,
which is broken off in the middle.

_Camball_, Cambuscan's son. _Algarsife and Canace_, his wife and
daughter.

_Frounced_. Used of hair twisted and curled.

_The Attic Boy_ = _Cephalus_, loved by _Eos_, the Morning.

_A shower still_ = a soft shower.

_Sylvan_ = Pan or Sylvanus.

_Cloister's pale_ = cloister's enclosure.

_Massy proof_. Massive and proof against the weight above them.]

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AFRICAN HOSPITALITY.

As we approached the town, I was fortunate enough to overtake the
fugitive Kaartans to whose kindness I had been so much indebted in my
journey through Bambarra. They readily agreed to introduce me to the
King; and we rode together through some marshy ground where, as I was
anxiously looking around for the river, one of them called out, _geo
affili_ (see