It is easy to see how affection came to apply it
to idiots. It is applied to the ox and ass in the next stanza, and is
often an epithet of shepherds.
[70] See _Poems by Sir Henry Wotton and others. Edited by the Rev. John
Hannah_.
[71] "Know thyself."
[72] "And I have grown their map."
[73] The guilt of Adam's first sin, supposed by the theologians of Dr.
Donne's time to be imputed to Adam's descendants.
[74] The past tense: ran.
[75] Their door to enter into sin--by his example.
[76] He was sent by James I. to assist an embassy to the Elector
Palatine, who had married his daughter Elizabeth.
[77] He had lately lost his wife, for whom he had a rare love.
[78] "If they know us not by intuition, but by judging from circumstances
and signs."
[79] "With most willingness."
[80] "Art proud."
[81] A strange use of the word; but it evidently means _recovered_, and
has some analogy with the French _repasser_.
[82] _To_ understood: _to sweeten_.
[83] He plays upon the astrological terms, _houses_ and _schemes_. The
astrologers divided the heavens into twelve _houses_; and the diagrams by
which they represented the relative positions of the heavenly bodies,
they called _schemes_.
[84] The tree of knowledge.
[85] Dyce, following Seward, substitutes _curse_.
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