[1] The Arguments are by Chapman, who also divided Marlowe's portion of the form into the First and Second Sestiad.
[2] Eds. 1600, 1606, 1613, "Sea-borders."--Ed. 1598, according to Malone, has "sea-borderers;" and so eds. 1629, 1637.
[4] Some eds. have "rockt," which may be the right reading.
[5] So ed. 1637.--The earlier editions that I have seen read "may."
"_Rose-cheek'd Adonis_ hied him to the chace."
"The _moist star_, Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands."
[8] "_Thrilling_--tremulously moving."--_Dyce._ Perhaps the meaning rather is _penetrating_--drilling its way through--"the gloomy sky."
[10] Dyce quotes a passage of Harington's _Orlando Furioso_ where "flowre" (floor) rhymes with "towre."
[11] Ed. 1600 and later 4tos. "Tail'd." For the coupling of "Vailed" with "veiling," cf. 2. _Tamb._ v. iii. 6. "pitch their pitchy tents."
[12] This line is quoted in _As you like it_, iii. 5:--
"Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might,-- _Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight._"
[13] "A periphrasis of Night." Marginal note in ed. 1598.
[14] Lines 199-204, 221-222, are quoted, not quite accurately, by Matthew in _Every Man in his Humour_, iv. 1.
"She with a kind of granting _put_ him _by_ it."
[19] This line is quoted in _England's Parnassus_ with the reading "ripest."
[21] "To the 'beldam nurse' there occurs the following allusion in Drayton's _Heroical Epistle from Queen Mary to Charles Brandon_:--
'There is no beldam nurse to powt nor lower When wantoning we revell in my tower, Nor need I top my turret with a light, To guide thee to me as thou swim'st by night.'"--_Broughton._
[22] So the old eds.--Dyce reads "about."
"Comes the blind Fury with the abhorrËd shears And slits the thin-spun life."
[25] This word cannot be right. Query, "high-aspiring?"
Hero of love takes deeper sense, And doth her love more recompense: Their first night's meeting, where sweet kisses Are th' only crowns of both their blisses He swims t' Abydos, and returns: Cold Neptune with his beauty burns; Whose suit he shuns, and doth aspire Hero's fair tower and his desire.