99. V. Ovid, Metamorphoses, vi, Philomela.     

       100. Cf. Part III, l. 204.     

       115. Cf. Part III, l. 195.     

       118. Cf. Webster:  “Is the wind in that door still?”     

       126. Cf. Part I, l. 37, 48.     

       138. Cf. the game of chess in Middleton’s Women beware Women.     

III. THE FIRE SERMON

       176. V. Spenser, Prothalamion.     

       192. Cf. The Tempest, I. ii.     

       196. Cf. Marvell, To His Coy Mistress.     

       197. Cf. Day, Parliament of Bees:     

 “When of the sudden, listening, you shall hear, “A noise of horns and hunting, which shall bring “Actaeon to Diana in the spring, “Where all shall see her naked skin . . .” 

       199. I do not know the origin of the ballad from which these lines are taken:  it was reported to me from Sydney, Australia.     

       202. V. Verlaine, Parsifal.     

       210. The currants were quoted at a price “carriage and insurance free to London”; and the Bill of Lading etc. were to be handed to the buyer upon payment of the sight draft.     

       210.  “Carriage and insurance free”] “cost, insurance and freight”-Editor.     

       218. Tiresias, although a mere spectator and not indeed a “character,”       is yet the most important personage in the poem, uniting all the rest. Just as the one-eyed merchant, seller of currants, melts into the Phoenician Sailor, and the latter is not wholly distinct from Ferdinand Prince of Naples, so all the women are one woman, and the two sexes meet in Tiresias. What Tiresias 

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