2 The Dee of Chester.

3 The Vergivian Sea, so called by Ptolemy, was the Irish Sea
between England and Ireland.

4 Cambridge.

5 Milton had been rusticated (suspended) on account of a quarrel with his tutor,
Chappell.

6 Chappell.

7 Ovid.

8 In Thebes--the guilty lords are Eteocles and Polynices the
brothers-sons of Oedipus and Jocasta, who fell in their unnatural
strife.

9 Troy.

10 London. The Dardanian (i.e. Trojan) hands are those of Brutus,
the legendary founder of London.

11 The magical plant by which Odysseus was enabled to escape from
Circe. See Homer (Odyssey, x. 370-375).


ELEGY II

On the Death of the University Beadle at Cambridge.1