Rome, on which the countenance of our Saviour was supposed to
have been imprest.
v. 101. Him.] St. Bernard.
v. 108. The queen.] The Virgin Mary.
v. 119. Oriflamb.] Menage on this word quotes the Roman des
Royau
-Iignages of Guillaume Ghyart.
Oriflamme est une banniere
De cendal roujoyant et simple
Sans portraiture d'autre affaire,
CANTO XXXII
v. 3. She.] Eve.
v. 8. Ancestress.] Ruth, the ancestress of David.
v. 60. In holy scripture.] Gen. c. xxv. 22.
v. 123. Lucia.] See Hell, Canto II. 97.
CANTO XXXIII
v. 63. The Sybil's sentence.] Virg. Aen. iii. 445.
v. 89. One moment.] "A moment seems to me more tedious, than
five-and-twenty ages would have appeared to the Argonauts, when
they had resolved on their expedition.
v. 92. Argo's shadow]
Quae simul ac rostro ventosnm proscidit aequor,
Tortaque remigio spumis incanduit unda,
Emersere feri candenti e gurgite vultus
Aequoreae monstrum Nereides admirantes.
Catullus, De Nupt. Pel. et Thet. 15.
v. 109. Three orbs of triple hue, clipt in one bound.] The
Trinity.
v. 118. That circling.] The second of the circles, "Light of
Light," in which he dimly beheld the mystery of the incarnation.
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