Compare the
situation
of these lovers with that of
Romeo and Juliet.
Keats
iii. 36,
'What sweeting! all amort.'
l. 71. See note on St. Agnes, p. 224.
l. 77. _Buttress'd from moonlight._ A picture of the castle and of the
night, as well as of Porphyro's position.
PAGE 88. ll. 82 seq.
Compare the
situation
of these lovers with that of
Romeo and Juliet.
l. 90. _beldame_, old woman. Shakespeare generally uses the word in an
uncomplimentary sense--'hag'--but it is not so used here. The word is
used by Spenser in its derivative sense, 'Fair lady,' _Faerie Queene_,
ii. 43.
PAGE 89. l. 110. _Brushing . . . plume._ This line both adds to our
picture of Porphyro and vividly brings before us the character of the
place he was entering--unsuited to the splendid cavalier.
