218 2 unfathomable** unmeasurable 3–4 cp. Numbers 13:33 ‘And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight’

218 12 go advances 18 Traverse way, path, track; possibly a curtain or screen used in a room or theatre for a play or masque 19 Camp field 21 quilted padded 25 Hay cut grass; country dance 29 Fairy Circles darker circles of grass where fairies were supposed to have danced; fairy dances

218 38, 45, 54, 60 such similarly 38 Roman Camps tumuli, supposedly burial mounds for ancient Romans 43 Clothes canvases Lilly Sir Peter Lely (1618–80), best known as a portrait-painter, who had come to England from Holland in 1641 stain paint 45 Table rase ‘tabula rasa’, blank tablet from which writing has been erased, leaving it ready to be written on again 46 Toril bullring 47 Madril Madrid 48 equal level 49 Levellers perhaps the democratic party headed by John Lilburne and Richard Overton, or Winstanley’s ‘True Levellers’ or Diggers (see no. 211), with whom Fairfax had conversed 50 chase drive 51 rase raze to the ground, shave, crop 52 Sith scythe increast grew 54–5 in Sir William Davenant’s Gon-dibert, 1651 (Book 2, Canto 6), he describes a painting of creation, in which on the sixth day ‘an universal Herd’ appeared; Marvell joins the wits who satirized the strongly anti-Puritan poem (cp. no. 303) by making Davenant one of his own beasts

218 60 ere… Eye before being brought into focus 61 Multiplying Glasses magnifying glasses 62 They the cattle