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115. _Circean. _ Circe was the great enchantress who turned
the followers of Ulysses into swine. Cf. _Comus_, ll. 46-54, and
_Odyssey_, x.

PAGE 11. l. 132. _swoon'd serpent. _ Evidently, in the exercise of her
magic, power had gone out of her.

l. 133. _lythe_, quick-acting.

_Caducean charm.
_ Caduceus was the name of Hermes' staff of wondrous
powers, the touch of which, evidently, was powerful to give the serpent
human form.

l. 136. _like a moon in wane. _ Cf. the picture of Cynthia, _Endymion_,
iii. 72 sq.

l. 138. _like a flower . . . hour. _ Perhaps a reminiscence of Milton's
'at shut of evening flowers. ' _Paradise Lost_, ix. 278.