212.)
l. 8. -----
"Who left a pledge behind". Caldecott cleverly converted
this line into the keynote of the poem, by making the heroine a
pawnbroker.
l. 20. -----
"When she has walk'd before". Cf. the French:--
On dit que dans ses amours
Il fut caresse des belles,
Qui le suivirent toujours,
'Tant qu'il marcha devant elles'.
l. 24. -----
"Her last disorder mortal". Cf. the French:--
Il fut par un triste sort
Blesse d'une main cruelle.
On croit, puis qu'il en est mort,
'Que la plaie etoit mortelle'.
l. 26. -----
"Kent Street", Southwark, 'chiefly inhabited,' said
Strype, 'by Broom Men and Mumpers'; and Evelyn tells us ('Diary'
5th December, 1683) that he assisted at the marriage, to her
fifth husband, of a Mrs. Castle, who was 'the daughter of one
Burton, a broom-man...in Kent Street' who had become not only
rich, but Sheriff of Surrey.
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