42 Title Coopers Hill near Egham, Surrey, close to Windsor and Runnymede; at least four counties can be seen from the top of the Hill 1–4 cp. Persius, Satires 1, Prologue 1–3 translated by Dryden as ‘I never did on cleft Parnassus dream,/Nor taste the sacred Heliconian stream;/Nor can remember when my brain, inspir’d,/Was by the Muses into madness fir’d’ 10 auspicious lucky, favourable; promising success 15 pile St Paul’s Cathedral

42 19 side-note M. W. Master (Edmund) Waller, see his poem ‘Upon his Majesties repairing of Pauls’ (no. 290) 22 zeal Puritan extremism 33–4 proverbial 35–6 a traditional theory explaining the source of rivers 47 Masters Embléme Windsor Hill and Castle are Charles I’s natural emblems 50 pompous dignified

42 60 Mother Cybele 65–6 cp. Waller’s poem on St Paul’s (no. 290 11. 5–6) 68 Arthur legendary King of Britain Knute Canute, King of the English, Danes and Norwegians (994?–1035) 78 lillies fleurs-de-lis, the emblem of France 79 side-note Queen Philip Edward Ill’s wife, Philippa of Hainault 81 Captive King David II of Scotland was captured in 1346 82 the second King John of France was captured in 1356

42 83 that Order the Order of the Knights of the Garter, probably founded in about 1349 either to celebrate the victory of the battle of Calais, or to strengthen bonds of love and loyalty between knights, or as a result of Edward Ill’s picking up the Countess of Salisbury’s garter and placing it on his own knee, proclaiming the Order’s motto ’Honi soit qui mal y pense’ 92 Royal pair Charles I was descended from the royal house of Scotland and his wife Henrietta Maria from the French house of Bourbon 97 great Grandsire Edward Ill’s grandfather, Edward I, fought both the Scots and the French 101 that Patron St George of Cappadocia 102 his arms a red cross on a white shield 103 Azure Circle the blue garter of the Order 104 him Charles I 105–6 the reference to the seas around Britain may allude to Charles I’s shipbuilding programme

42 109 in 1629 Rubens painted Charles I as St George rescuing Henrietta Maria from the dragon in a pastoral setting 113 neighbouring hill St Anne’s Hill, near Chertsey 115 Abby Chertsey Abbey 118 King Henry VIII 119 Luxury lasciv-iousness; self-indulgence 132 stiles styluses, pens; styles, titles 134 Faith defends cp. Henry VIII’s title conferred on him by the Pope of ‘Fidei defensor’, ‘Defender of the faith’ 137–8 in Aesop’s fable, the frogs appealed to Zeus for a king; when they were dissatisfied with his gift of a log, the stork sent to replace it devoured them

42 144 Calenture tropical disease in which sailors imagine the sea to be green fields 148 erre be mistaken; wander 149 dismal heaps the ruins of Chertsey Abbey 158 Those anger and shame this fear 160 wanton luxurious, lush 165 those streams Tagus and Pactolus 172 overlay suffocate in sleep 174 resumes takes back again

42 175–6 cp. Denham’s translation of Virgil’s Aeneid 2.305–6 ‘… Torrents raging course/Bears down th’opposing Oaks, the fields destroys/And mocks the Plough-mans toil…’ 184 both Indies the East and West Indies 209 horrid bristling, shaggy

42 214 self-enamour’d** 223 spacious plain Egham Mead, which includes Run-nymede and Long Mead 237 ranker more luxuriant, richer 241–322 these lines describing the stag hunt probably originally referred to the trial and execution of Strafford (see no. 41), but by 1655 could be read as alluding to the trial and execution of Charles I

42 263 reviewing surveying 271 unkindly unnaturally, not according to their kind 277 conscious sharing in, witnesses to, human affairs

42 281–2 cp. the note to 1.109 above 303 assay try 307 oarefin’d with oars like fins

42 324 side-note Charter King John signed Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215; in the seventeenth century it was often cited as a charter of ‘English liberty’ 336 that seal love 341–2 these lines are marked to show that they are sententiae

42 353 Bays embankments, dams