pipe, used here like Collins' _oaten stop_ l. 1,
No. 186, for _Song_. L. 12 _Hippotades_: Aeolus, god of the Winds.
_Panope_ (l. 15) a Nereid. Certain names of local deities in the
Hellenic mythology render some feature in the natural landscape, which
the Greeks studied and analysed with their usual unequalled insight
and feeling. _Panope_ seems to express the boundlessness of the
ocean-horizon when seen from a height, as compared with the limited
sky-line of the land in hilly countries such as Greece or Asia Minor.
_Camus_ (l. 19) the Cam: put for King's University. _The sanguine
flower_ (l. 22) the Hyacinth of the ancients: probably our Iris. _The
Pilot_ (l. 25) Saint Peter, figuratively introduced as the head of the
Church on earth, to foretell 'the ruin of our corrupted clergy,' as
Milton regarded them, 'then in their heighth' under Laud's primacy.

72 -- l. 1 _scrannel_: screeching; apparently Milton's coinage
(Masson). L. 5 _the wolf_: the Puritans of the time were excited to
alarm and persecution by a few conversions to Roman Catholicism which
had recently occurred. _Alpheus_ (l. 9) a stream in Southern Greece,
supposed to flow underseas to join the Arethuse. _Swart star_ (l. 15)
the Dog-star, called swarthy because its heliacal rising in ancient
times occurred soon after midsummer: l. 19 _rathe_: early. L. 36
_moist vows_: either tearful prayers, or prayers for one at sea.
_Bellerus_ (l. 37) a giant, apparently created here by Milton to
personify Belerium, the ancient title of the Land's End. _The great
Vision_:--the story was that the Archangel Michael had appeared on the
rock by Marazion in Mount's Bay which bears his name. Milton calls on
him to turn his eyes from the south homeward, and to pity Lycidas, if
his body has drifted into the troubled waters off the Land's End.
Finisterre being the land due south of Marazion, two places in that
district (then through our trade with Corunna probably less unfamiliar
to English ears), are named,--_Namancos_ now Mujio in Galicia,
_Bayona_ north of the Minho, or perhaps a fortified rock (one of the
_Cies_ Islands) not unlike Saint Michael's Mount, at the entrance of
Vigo Bay.

73 89 l. 6 _ore_: rays of golden light. _Doric_ lay (l. 25) Sicilian,
pastoral.

75 93 _The assault_ was an attack on London expected in 1642, when the
troops of Charles I reached Brentford. 'Written on his door' was in
the original title of this sonnet. Milton was then living in
Aldersgate S