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 every person, in the least acquainted with the English history, that it would be needless to offer any farther illustration.

P. 57. Here is a series of epigrams, as they may be called, or short "meditations" on different broken utensils of glass; from each of which, the poet has endeavoured to extract an appropriate and striking moral. The number of these little pieces in the original MS. is considerable: I have selected those which appeared the most ingenious, and poetical.

Weed formerly meant, and in the plural, weeds, still means a garment, or covering, and in that sense was used for the skin, which is the natural covering of the body. So Carew:

An expressive epithet: you seem to see the sand crumbling away.

See the "Duell" between the lips and eyes, p. 29. and the note, p. 338.