_Notes on Lycidas._

On l. 2. (G.):--

"O'er head sat a raven, on a _sere_ bough."

_Jonson's Sad Shepherd_, Act. I. Sc. 6.

On l. 26. (D.):--

"Whose so early lay
Prevents _the eyelids of the blushing day_."

_Crashaw's Music's Duel._

On l. 27. (D.):--

"Each sheapherd's daughter, with her cleanly peale,
was come _afield_ to milke the morning's meale."

_Brown's Britannia's Pastorals_, B. iv. Sc. 4. p. 75. ed. 1616.

On l. 29. (G.):--

"And in the _deep fog batten_ all the day."

_Drayton_, vol. ii. p. 512. ed. 1753.

On l. 40. (G.):--