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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.

l. 113. _Pale, lattic'd, chill. _ Cf. l. 12, note.

l. 115. _by the holy loom_, on which the nuns spin. See l. 71 and note
on St. Agnes, p. 224.

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