THe
Tragedie
of
CHRIST'S
PASSION
was
first
written
in
Greek
by
Apollinarius
of
Laodicea
,
Bishop
of
Hieropolis
:
and
after
him
by
Gregory
Nazianzen
;
though
this
,
now
extant
in
his
Works
,
is
by
some
ascribed
to
the
former
:
by
others
accounted
suppositions
,
as
not
agreeing
with
his
Strain
in
the
rest
of
his
Poems
;
which
might
alter
in
that
particular
upon
his
imitation
of
Euripides
.
But
Hugo
Grotius
,
of
late
hath
transcended
all
on
this
Argument
:
whose
steps
afar-off
I
follow
.
ANNOTATIONS
VPON
THE
FIRST
ACT.
VErse
23.
Ephratian
Dames
]
Of
Ephrata
,
the
same
with
Bethlehem
.
Ver.
33.
Magi
]
Tradition
will
have
them
three
,
of
severall
Nations
,
and
honour
them
with
crownes
.
But
the
word
delivers
them
for
Persians
,
for
so
they
called
their
Philosophers
;
such
as
were
skilfull
in
the
Coelestiall
Motions
,
from
whence
they
drew
their
predictions
:
and
with
whom
their
Princes
consulted
in
all
matters
of
moment
.
Some
write
that
they
were
of
the
posteritie
of
Balaam
,
by
his
Prophesies
informed
of
the
birth
of
Christ
,
and
apparition
of
that
narrative
Starre
:
but
more
consonant
to
the
Truth
,
that
they
received
it
from
divine
inspiration
.
Ver.
34.
My
Starre
]
None
of
those
which
adorne
the
Firmament
;
nor
Comet
,
proceeding
from
condensed
Vapors
inflamed
in
the
Aire
;
but
above
Nature
,
and
meerely
miraculous
:
which
,
as
they
write
,
not
onely
illuminated
the
eye
,
but
the
understanding
;
excited
thereby
to
that
heavenly
inquisition
.
Some
will
have
it
an
Angel
in
that
forme
.
The
excellencie
whereof
is
thus
described
by
Prudentius
.
This
,
which
in
Beames
and
Beauty
far
Exceld
the
Sunnes
flame-bearing
Car
,
Shew'd
Gods
descent
from
Heaven
to
Earth
,
Accepting
of
a
humane
Birth
.
No
servant
to
the
humerous
Night
,
Nor
following
Phoebe's
changing
Light
;
But
didst
thy
single
Lamp
display
To
guide
the
Motion
of
the
Day
.
Hym
Epiphaniae
.
It
is
probable
that
this
Starre
continued
not
above
thirteene
dayes
,
if
we
may
beleeve
that
Tradition
,
How
the
Magi
were
so
long
in
travelling
from
their
Countrey
unto
Bethlehem
.
Ver.
34.
Mithra's
flame
]
Mithra
:
the
same
with
the
Sunne
,
adored
by
the
Persians
.
His
Image
had
the
countenance
of
a
Lion
,
with
a
Tiara
on
his
head
,
depressing
an
Oxe
by
the
hornes
.
Of
this
Statius
Come
,
O
remember
thy
owne
Temple
;
prove
Propitious
still
,
and
Juno's
Citie
love
:
Whether
we
should
thee
rosy
Titan
call
;
Osyris
,
Lord
of
Ceres
festivall
;
Or
Mithra
shrin'd
in
Persian
rocks
,
a
Bull
,
Subduing
by
the
horror
of
his
skull
.
Thebaid
.
l.
1.
And
in
a
Cave
his
Rites
were
solemnized
:
from
whence
they
drew
an
Oxe
by
the
hornes
;
which
,
after
the
singing
of
certaine
Paeans
,
was
sacrificed
to
the
Sun
,
Zorastes
placeth
him
between
Oremazes
and
Arimanius
,
the
good
and
bad
Daemon
,
from
which
he
took
that
denomination
.
Vers.
39.
Pharisees
]
A
precise
Sect
among
the
Iews
,
separating
themselves
from
others
in
habit
,
manners
,
and
conversation
:
from
whence
they
had
their
Name
;
as
their
Originall
from
Antigonus
Sochaeus
,
who
was
contemporary
with
Alexander
the
Great
.
Men
full
of
appearing
Sanctitie
;
observant
to
Traditions
,
and
skilfull
expositors
of
the
Moysaicall
Law
:
wearing
the
Precepts
thereof
in
Phylacters
(
narrow
scroules
of
parchment
)
bound
about
their
browes
,
and
above
their
left
elbowes
:
passing
thorow
the
streets
with
a
slow
motion
,
their
eyes
fixed
on
the
ground
,
as
if
ever
in
divine
contemplations
:
and
wincking
at
the
approach
of
women
,
by
meanes
whereof
they
not
seldome
met
with
churlish
incounters
.
Superstitious
in
their
often
washing
,
keeping
their
bodies
cleaner
then
their
soules
.
They
held
that
all
was
governed
by
God
and
Fate
;
yet
that
man
had
the
power
in
himselfe
to
doe
good
or
evill
:
That
his
Soule
was
immortall
;
that
after
the
death
of
the
body
,
if
good
,
it
returned
into
an other
more
excellent
;
but
if
evill
,
condemned
to
perpetuall
torments
.
Vers.
43.
Sadduces
]
These
derived
the
Sect
and
name
from
Sadock
,
the
scholar
of
Antigonus
Socaeus
:
as
he
his
Heresie
by
misinterpreting
the
words
of
his
Master
;
that
we
should
not
serve
God
as
servants
,
in
hope
of
reward
:
concluding
thereupon
that
in
another
World
there
was
no
reward
for
Pietie
,
and
consequently
no
resurrection
:
holding
the
Soul
to
be
annihilated
after
the
death
of
the
Body
herein
agreeing
with
the
Stoicks
.
As
smoke
from
trembling
flames
ascends
,
and
there
,
Lost
in
its
liberty
,
resolves
to
aire
;
As
empty
Clouds
,
which
furious
tempests
chace
,
Consume
and
vanish
in
their
aiery
race
;
So
our
commanding
Souls
fleet
with
our
breath
:
After
Death
nothing
rests
;
and
nothing
Death
,
But
of
swift
Life
the
Gole
.
Ambition
lay
Thy
hopes
aside
;
nor
Care
our
peace
betray
.
Inquir'st
thou
to
what
place
thou
shalt
return
When
dead
?
To
that
,
where
lie
the
yet
Vnborn
.
Seneca
in
Troad
.
They
held
that
there
was
neither
Spirits
nor
Angels
;
rejected
all
Traditions
;
and
onely
allowed
of
the
five
books
of
Moses
;
that
there
was
no
such
thing
as
Fate
;
that
no
evil
proceeded
from
God
;
and
that
Vertue
and
Vice
were
in
our
own
Arbitrements
.
The
Pharisees
were
sociable
among
themselves
:
but
the
Sadduces
ever
at
discord
,
and
as
uncivill
to
their
own
Sect
as
to
strangers
.
This
Heresie
infected
not
a
few
of
the
High
Priests
:
for
Hircanus
with
his
two
Sons
,
Aristobulus
and
Alexander
,
were
Sadduces
;
so
was
Auanus
the
younger
.
Vers.
151.
Now
the
full
Moon
]
In
the
first
full
Moon
after
the
Suns
ascending
into
the
Equinoctiall
,
they
celebrated
the
annuall
Passeover
,
according
to
the
positive
Law
of
Moses
;
eating
the
Lambe
in
the
Evening
at
their
private
houses
,
and
lying
about
the
table
on
beds
,
as
the
Romanes
upon
their
Trielinium
:
never
fewer
then
ten
together
;
if
they
wanted
of
their
owne
Family
,
they
supplied
themselves
with
their
Neighbours
;
nor
above
the
number
of
twenty
.
This
Feast
was
onely
to
be
kept
at
Ierusalem
:
but
those
that
came
short
of
the
Day
by
reason
of
the
distance
,
or
were
defiled
with
the
Dead
,
had
a
second
Passeover
in
the
moneth
following
assigned
.
Vers.
161.
Our
washings
past
]
It
was
the
Custome
as
well
of
all
the
Eastern
Nations
,
as
of
the
Iewes
,
to
wash
the
feet
of
their
Guests
,
though
performed
by
inferior
Servants
;
but
here
by
Christ
himself
,
to
give
an
example
of
humilitie
.
They
had
vessels
standing
by
,
ready
fill'd
with
water
for
that
purpose
.
This
,
at
this
Feast
,
was
observed
between
the
first
and
second
lying
down
,
by
way
of
Purification
:
Vers.
175.
Phosphorus
]
The
same
with
Lucifer
,
which
is
a
bringer
in
of
Light
;
and
therefore
the
Harbinger
of
the
Day
:
said
to
conduct
and
withdraw
the
Starres
in
that
the
last
that
shineth
.
This
is
the
beautifull
Planet
of
Venus
;
which
when
it
riseth
before
the
Sun
is
the
Morning
Starre
;
and
setting
after
it
,
the
Evening
.
Now
sea-bath'd
Hesperus
,
who
brings
Night
on
,
and
first
displayes
his
wings
:
Now
,
radiant
Lucifer
;
who
Day
Exalting
,
chaceth
Night
away
.
In
regard
that
her
Course
is
sometimes
swifter
then
the
Sun
,
and
sometimes
slower
:
yet
never
farre
off
,
and
fulfilling
the
same
period
.
Vers.
193.
Those
Cities
,
&c.
]
The
Cities
which
lie
at
the
foot
of
Libanus
,
on
the
North
of
Galilee
;
whereof
Cesarea
Philippi
,
the
Seat
of
the
Tetrarch
,
was
the
principall
:
where
Iordan
not
farre
above
descends
from
Ior
and
Dan
,
two
neighbouring
Fountains
.
Vers
198.
A
Sea-resembling
Lake
.
]
The
Lake
of
Genesareth
called
also
the
Sea
of
Galilee
,
and
of
Tiberias
;
taking
this
name
from
that
Citie
there
built
by
Antipas
in
honour
of
Tiberius
.
It
extendeth
forty
fur-longs
in
breadth
,
and
in
length
an
hundred
:
the
shore
once
inriched
with
the
Cities
of
Capharnaum
,
Tiberias
,
Bethsaida
,
Bethsan
,
Gadra
,
Taricha
,
and
Chorosaim
.
Vers.
199.
Those
Woods
of
Palmes
.
]
In
the
Plaines
adjoyning
to
Iericho
:
from
their
abundance
called
the
Citie
of
Palmes
.
Vers.
200.
Of
fragrant
Balsamum
,
which
&c.
]
As
in
Engaddi
,
so
Balsamum
grew
plentifully
about
Iericho
.
A
plant
onely
proper
to
that
Countrey
:
and
from
thence
transported
into
Aegypt
by
Antonius
,
to
gratifie
Cleopatra
.
It
dies
,
if
it
be
toucht
with
iron
:
and
therefore
they
lanch
the
rinde
with
sharp
stones
,
or
knives
of
bone
,
from
whence
that
precious
liquour
distilleth
.
Vers.
203.
That
mount
]
Phasga
:
from
whence
Moses
saw
all
the
land
of
Promise
from
Dan
to
Bersheba
;
and
there
died
:
buried
in
an
unknown
Sepulcher
by
an
Angel
,
lest
that
should
have
drawn
the
Israelites
to
Idolatry
.
Saint
Hitrome
writes
,
how
the
Devil
,
indeavouring
to
reveale
the
place
,
was
resisted
by
Michael
the
Archangel
.
Vers
209.
Cepheans
,
whose
strong
walls
,
&c
,
]
Cepheus
,
the
son
of
Phoenix
,
reigned
in
Ioppa
:
A
citie
built
by
Iaphet
before
the
Floud
,
and
rather
covered
then
demolisht
by
that
Deluge
.
The
Inhabitants
,
with
their
territories
,
took
the
name
of
their
King
:
Who
worshipped
Dercetis
the
Goddesse
of
the
Ascalonites
their
neighbours
.
She
,
as
they
fable
,
inflamed
with
the
love
of
a
beautifull
Youth
who
sacrific'd
unto
her
,
having
by
him
a
Daughter
(
who
after
,
in
that
nourished
by
Doves
,
was
called
Semiramis
)
ashamed
of
her
incontinency
,
put
away
the
Youth
,
exposed
the
childe
to
the
mercie
of
the
Deserts
;
and
distracted
with
sorrow
,
threw
her self
into
a
Lake
neare
Ascalon
,
and
there
was
changed
into
a
fish
.
Of
which
Ovid
.
—
To
insist
upon
The
sad
Dercetis
of
great
Babylon
:
Who
,
as
the
Palestines
beleeve
,
did
take
A
scaly
form
,
inhabiting
a
Lake
.
To
whom
a
magnificent
Temple
was
erected
,
with
her
image
in
the
likenesse
of
a
fish
from
the
navell
downward
.
This
was
that
Dagon
,
the
Idol
of
the
Ascolonites
,
according
to
S.
Hierome
,
(
by
interpretation
the
Fish
of
Sorrow
)
which
fell
before
the
Ark
of
God
,
when
it
was
brought
into
her
Temple
.
Vers.
214.
Azotus
,
both
the
Jamnes
]
Maritim
townes
belonging
to
the
Philistines
:
the
latter
so
called
of
the
flourishing
Soyle
.
Vers.
215.
Lydda
]
A
Citie
seated
in
the
valley
above
,
and
a
little
to
the
North
of
Ioppa
:
called
after
,
the
Citie
of
Iupiter
:
famous
for
the
Allegoricall
Combat
of
St
George
,
and
his
Martyrdome
.
Vers.
216.
Caparorsa
]
A
Citie
of
Iudaea
according
to
Ptolomey
;
rather
of
Idumea
,
as
here
intimated
by
our
Authour
.
Vers.
217.
Damascus
]
The
regall
Citie
of
Syria
:
as
pleasant
as
great
;
here
said
to
have
commanded
ten
Nations
.
It
lieth
on
the
North
of
Galiee
,
in
a
valley
beyond
Antelibanus
:
six
short
dayes
journey
from
Ierusalem
.
Vers.
219.
Sabaste
]
Samaria
,
the
soveraigne
Citie
of
those
ten
Tribes
which
fell
from
the
House
of
Iudah
:
not
much
above
a
dayes
journey
from
Ierusalem
.
Built
by
Amri
on
the
top
of
a
Hill
,
presenting
an
admirable
Prospect
,
which
he
bought
of
Samarus
,
of
whom
it
was
called
Samaria
.
The
Inhabitants
infamous
for
their
frequent
falling
from
God
to
Idolatry
.
Vers.
221.
Phoenicians
,
who
]
The
Inhabitants
between
the
great
Sea
and
Galilee
(
so
called
of
Phoenix
their
king
,
the
fifth
in
descent
from
Iupiter
)
honour'd
for
the
invention
of
Letters
.
Phoenicians
first
exprest
(
if
Fame
be
true
)
The
fixt
voice
in
rude
figures
.
Memphis
knew
Not
yet
how
streame-lov'd
Biblus
to
prepare
:
But
birds
and
beasts
,
carv'd
out
in
stone
,
declare
Their
Hieroglyphick
Wisdomes
.
Lucan
.
l.
3.
These
Cadmus
the
sonne
of
Agenor
communicated
to
the
Grecians
.
Vers.
223.
Tyrus
,
full
of
Luxury
]
The
Metropolis
of
Phoenicia
;
once
soveraigne
of
the
Sea
,
and
of
all
the
World
:
the
greatest
Emporium
:
whose
beauty
,
commerce
,
and
riches
,
the
parent
of
luxury
,
is
by
the
Prophet
Ezekiel
most
gloriously
described
.
Vers.
224.
Mother
Sidon
]
The
ancientest
Citie
of
Phoenicia
built
by
Sida
,
the
daughter
of
Belus
,
or
rather
by
Sidon
the
first-born
of
Canaan
.
The
mother
of
Tyrus
;
for
the
Tyrians
were
a
Colony
of
the
Sidonians
.
Vers.
226.
Among
the
Syrians
,
those
,
&c.
]
The
Syrians
would
eat
no
fish
;
not
onely
in
regard
of
the
fabulous
transformation
of
their
Goddesse
Dercetis
;
but
that
they
held
it
injustice
to
kill
those
Creatures
which
did
them
no
harm
,
and
were
fed
on
,
rather
for
luxury
then
necessity
:
Withall
,
conceiving
the
Sea
to
be
the
originall
and
father
of
all
that
had
life
,
and
that
man
was
ingendred
of
a
liquid
substance
,
they
adored
fishes
as
being
of
their
own
generation
and
Subsistence
.
So
did
they
a
Dove
;
not
onely
because
their
glorious
Empresse
Semiramis
carried
that
name
,
and
was
after
,
as
they
fable
,
transformed
into
that
creature
:
but
expressing
the
Aire
by
the
Dove
,
as
by
a
fish
the
water
;
reverencing
both
,
as
comprising
the
Nature
of
all
things
.
V.
229
From
Belus
,
whose
&c.
]
From
certain
marishes
in
the
valley
of
Acre
runs
the
River
of
Belus
with
a
tardy
pace
,
and
exonerates
it self
into
the
Sea
hard
by
Ptolemais
:
whose
sand
affordeth
matter
for
glasse
,
becomming
fusible
in
the
furnace
.
Strabo
reports
the
like
of
divers
places
there
about
:
and
Iosephus
,
speaking
of
this
,
that
there
is
an
adjoyning
Pit
,
an
hundred
cubits
in
circuit
,
covered
with
sand
that
glistered
like
glasse
;
and
when
carried
away
(
for
therewith
they
accustomed
to
ballast
their
ships
)
it
forth-with
was
filled
again
,
borne
thither
by
windes
from
places
adjacent
.
Moreover
,
that
what
minerall
soever
was
contained
therein
converted
into
glasse
;
and
glasse
there
laid
,
againe
into
sand
.
Vers.
231.
From
Arnons
bankes
;
those
,
&c.
]
Arnon
riseth
in
the
mountaines
of
Arabia
;
and
dividing
the
Countrey
of
the
Moabites
from
the
Ammonites
,
fals
into
the
Dead
Sea
.
By
those
ancient
Warres
is
meant
the
Overthrow
which
Moses
gave
unto
Og
and
Sehon
.
Vers.
234.
Asphaltis
]
The
Dead
Sea
,
or
Lake
of
Sodome
and
Gomorrah
;
having
no
egresse
,
unlesse
under
the
Earth
;
Seventy
miles
in
length
,
and
sixteen
broad
:
here
at
large
described
by
our
Author
.
Vers.
237.
What
over
flies
,
&c.
]
The
like
is
written
of
Avernus
:
whereof
the
poeticall
Philosopher
Avernus
cald
:
a
name
impos'd
of
right
,
In
that
so
fatall
to
all
Birds
of
flight
.
Which
when
those
aiery
Passengers
o're-fly
,
Forgetfull
of
their
wings
,
they
fall
from
high
With
stretcht
out
necks
:
on
Earth
,
where
Earth
partakes
That
killing
propertie
;
where
Lakes
,
on
Lakes
.
Lucr.
l.
6.
Vers.
215.
When
she
,
&c.
]
Lots
wife
.
Iosephus
writes
that
he
himselfe
had
seene
that
Statue
of
Salt
:
yet
extant
,
if
Brocardus
and
Saligniacus
,
professed
Eye-witnesses
,
be
to
be
beleeved
.
Vers.
255.
Devout
Esseans
]
A
Sect
among
the
Iews
;
strictly
preserving
the
worship
of
God
,
the
rules
of
Religion
and
Iustice
:
living
on
the
common
stock
;
never
eating
of
flesh
,
and
wholly
abstaining
from
Wine
and
Women
.
They
wore
their
apparell
white
and
cleanly
:
pray'd
before
the
rising
of
the
Sunne
;
laboured
all
day
long
for
the
publike
utilitie
;
fed
in
the
evening
with
a
generall
silence
;
and
had
their
Sobriety
rewarded
with
a
life
long
and
healthfull
.
Their
chiefe
study
was
the
Bible
;
and
next
to
that
,
Physick
,
taking
their
name
from
the
cure
of
diseases
.
All
were
servants
one
to
an other
.
They
never
sware
an
oath
,
nor
offered
any
thing
that
had
life
in
their
sacrifice
:
ascribing
all
unto
Fate
,
and
nothing
to
free
Will
.
They
preserved
their
Society
by
the
adoption
of
children
,
inured
to
piety
and
labour
.
Their
Sect
,
though
ancient
,
hath
no
known
Originall
;
yet
much
agreeing
with
the
discipline
of
the
Pythagoreans
.
Vers.
274.
The
first
unleaven'd
Bread
]
Eaten
with
the
Paschal
Lambe
at
the
Israelites
departing
out
of
Aegypt
:
the
Ceremonies
used
therein
are
at
large
delivered
by
Moses
.
Vers.
275.
She
never
would
retaine
]
The
Libertie
they
lost
in
the
Babylonian
Captivitie
,
was
never
absolutely
recovered
:
for
the
most
part
under
the
Persians
,
Grecians
,
Aegyptians
,
or
Syrians
(
although
in
the
reigne
of
the
Asmones
they
had
the
face
of
a
Kingdome
,
yet
maintained
with
perpetuall
bloudshed
)
after
governed
by
the
Idumeans
,
and
lastly
by
the
Romanes
:
often
rebelling
,
and
as
often
suppressed
.
Ver.
278.
Horned
Hammons
Temple
]
Iupiter
Hammon
,
which
signifies
Sand
;
because
his
Temple
stood
in
the
Lybian
Desarts
:
with
such
difficultie
visited
by
Alexander
.
Or
rather
being
the
same
with
Ham
the
sonne
of
Noah
;
from
whom
Idolatry
had
her
Originall
:
who
usually
wore
the
carved
head
of
a
Ram
on
his
Helmet
;
whereupon
his
Idol
was
so
fashioned
.
But
Iupiter
Hammon
is
also
taken
for
the
Sunne
;
Hammah
signifying
Heate
in
the
Hebrew
.
And
because
the
Yeere
beginneth
at
his
entrance
into
Aries
,
he
therefore
was
carved
with
Rams
hornes
.
Ver.
281.
Built
his
proud
City
]
Alexandria
in
Aegypt
;
built
by
Alexander
the
Great
upon
a
Promentory
neer
the
Isle
of
Pharos
:
so
directed
,
as
they
write
,
by
Homer
in
a
Vision
.
Vers.
282.
To
their
old
prison
,
Babylon
]
Not
all
the
Iews
returned
with
Zorobbabel
,
but
remained
at
Babylon
,
and
by
the
favour
of
succeeding
Princes
planted
thereabout
their
Colonies
;
grew
a
great
Nation
,
observing
their
ancient
Rites
and
Religion
.
These
were
called
Babylonian
Iews
:
to
whom
not
a
few
of
their
Countrey
men
fled
from
the
troubles
of
their
Countrey
.
Vers.
283.
To
freezing
Taurus
,
&c.
]
The
greatest
Mountaine
of
the
World
,
which
changeth
its
name
according
to
the
countries
through
which
it
extendeth
:
that
part
properly
so
called
,
which
divideth
Pamphilia
and
Cilicia
from
the
lesser
Armenia
and
Cappadocia
:
Whither
many
of
the
Iews
were
retired
.
Vers.
284.
And
Tiber
now
,
&c.
]
Rome
,
the
Empresse
of
Cities
adorning
the
bankes
of
Tiber
,
to
which
the
Ocean
then
yeelded
Obedience
.
ANNOTATIONS
VPON
THE
SECOND
ACT.
VErse
1.
Bloud-thirsty
Romulus
]
The
Originall
of
the
Race
and
Name
of
the
Romanes
:
who
laide
the
Wals
of
Rome
in
the
bloud
of
his
brother
Remus
.
Vers.
15.
To
such
a
Guide
,
&c.
]
It
was
a
Custome
among
the
Easterne
Nations
,
and
not
relinquished
by
many
at
this
Day
,
for
men
to
kisse
one
another
in
their
salutations
.
So
did
the
Romanes
,
untill
interdicted
by
Tiberius
.
With
the
Iews
it
was
a
pledge
of
peace
and
amitie
:
used
also
to
their
Lords
and
Princes
by
way
of
homage
and
acknowledged
subjection
:
as
perfidious
Iudas
did
here
to
his
Master
.
Vers.
55.
Memphis
]
By
this
is
meant
the
Aegyptian
Servitude
;
Memphis
of
old
the
chiefe
Citie
in
Aegypt
.
Vers.
55.
Devouring
Desarts
]
All
the
Israelites
,
that
came
out
of
Aegypt
,
perished
in
the
Desarts
,
but
Ioshuah
and
Caleb
.
Vers.
55.
Civill
warres
]
As
between
the
Tribe
of
Benjamin
,
and
the
rest
of
the
Tribes
;
the
Iews
and
Israelites
;
Israelites
against
Israelites
,
and
Iews
against
Iews
.
Discord
threw
her
Snakes
among
the
Asmones
,
nor
had
Herods
Posteritie
better
successe
.
Vers.
56.
Oft
forreign
yokes
]
Often
subdued
by
their
Neighbours
,
and
delivered
by
their
Iudges
and
Princes
.
Vers.
56.
Assyrian
Conquerers
]
Who
sackt
Ierusalem
,
destroyed
the
Temple
which
was
built
by
Solomon
,
led
their
King
captive
,
and
their
whole
Nation
,
unto
Babylon
.
Vers.
57.
Great
Pompeys
Eagles
]
Pompey
,
who
bore
the
Romane
Eagle
on
his
Standard
,
took
Ierusalem
and
the
Temple
by
force
(
yet
would
not
meddle
with
the
Treasure
,
nor
sacred
Vtensils
)
subdued
the
Iews
,
and
made
them
tributaries
to
the
Romanes
.
Vers.
57.
Sacred
Rites
Profan'd
]
Who
entred
the
Sanctum
Sanctorum
with
his
followers
,
and
prophaned
the
Religion
of
the
place
by
beholding
that
which
was
to
be
seene
but
by
the
High
Priest
onely
.
Vers.
58.
The
Temple
sackt
,
with
bloud
,
&c.
]
He
slew
twelve
thousand
Iews
within
the
wals
of
the
Temple
.
Vers.
66.
Cedron
]
This
Brook
,
or
Torrent
,
runnes
thorough
the
Vale
of
Iehosaphat
,
between
Mount
Olivet
and
the
City
,
close
by
the
Garden
of
Gethsemane
,
where
Christ
was
betrayed
.
Vers.
103.
Not
Jordan
with
two
,
&c.
]
See
the
Note
upon
vers.
195.
Act.
1.
Vers.
105.
Callithoe
]
A
Citie
in
the
Tribe
of
Ruben
,
so
called
of
her
beautifull
Springs
:
where
from
a
Rock
two
neighbour
Fountaines
gush
out
as
from
the
brests
of
a
woman
:
the
one
of
hot
,
but
sweet
water
;
the
other
of
cold
and
bitter
;
which
joyning
together
make
a
pleasant
Bath
,
salubrious
for
many
diseases
;
and
flowes
from
thence
into
the
Lake
of
Asphaltis
.
Herod
in
his
sicknesse
repaired
to
this
place
:
but
finding
no
help
,
and
despairing
of
life
,
removed
to
Iericho
;
where
he
died
.
Vers.
105.
That
ample
Lake
]
The
Sea
of
Galilee
,
by
which
Peter
was
borne
.
Vers.
107.
Blew
Nereus
,
&c.
]
Nereus
is
taken
for
the
Sea
in
generall
,
but
here
for
the
Aegyptian
;
into
which
Nilus
dischargeth
his
waters
by
seven
currents
;
the
fresh
water
keeping
together
,
and
changing
the
colour
of
the
Salt
,
far
further
into
the
Sea
,
then
the
shore
from
thence
can
be
discerned
.
Vers.
128.
Lethe
]
A
River
of
Africa
,
passing
by
Bernice
,
and
running
into
the
Mediterranian
Sea
neere
the
Promontory
of
the
Syrtes
.
It
hath
that
name
from
Oblivion
,
because
those
,
who
drunk
thereof
,
forgot
whatsoever
they
had
formerly
done
.
Of
this
Lucan
.
Where
silent
Lethe
glides
:
this
(
as
they
tell
)
Draws
her
Oblivion
from
the
veines
of
Hell
.
So
feigned
,
because
of
the
oblivion
which
is
in
Death
;
as
allegorically
for
that
of
Sleep
.
Vers.
139.
Tarpean
Jove
]
Tarpeus
is
a
Mountaine
in
Rome
,
taking
that
name
from
the
Vestall
Virgin
Tarpea
,
who
betrayed
her
Fathers
Fort
to
the
Sabines
,
upon
promise
to
receive
what
they
ware
on
their
left
armes
for
her
reward
;
she
meaning
their
golden
bracelets
:
which
they
not
onely
gave
,
but
threw
their
shields
upon
her
(
a
part
of
the
bargaine
)
and
so
prest
her
to
death
;
who
buried
her
in
the
Place
:
since
called
the
Capitol
,
where
Iupiter
had
his
Temple
.
Vers.
139.
Mars
,
great
Quirinus
Sire
]
Romulus
was
called
Quirinus
of
his
Speare
;
or
for
his
uniting
the
two
Nations
of
the
Cures
and
Romanes
:
as
the
sonne
of
Mars
,
in
that
so
strenuous
a
Souldier
.
Plutarch
writes
that
he
was
begotten
by
his
Vncle
Aemulius
,
who
counterfeiting
Mars
,
disguised
in
Armour
,
ravished
his
mother
Ilia
:
not
onely
to
satisfie
his
Lust
,
but
to
procure
her
destruction
,
as
the
heire
to
his
elder
brother
,
the
law
condemning
a
defiled
Vestall
to
be
buried
alive
.
Vers.
140.
You
Houshold
Gods
,
snatcht
,
&c.
]
Penates
:
which
Aeneas
saved
from
burning
at
the
sack
of
Troy
,
and
brought
them
with
him
into
Italy
:
supposing
that
from
them
they
received
their
flesh
,
their
life
,
and
understanding
.
Vers
151.
Caprae
]
A
little
Iland
in
the
Tyrrhen
Sea
,
and
in
the
sight
of
Naples
,
naturally
walled
about
with
up-right
Cliffs
,
and
having
but
one
passage
into
it
.
Infamous
for
the
Cruelties
and
Lusts
of
Tiberius
;
who
retiring
thither
from
the
affairs
of
the
Common-wealth
,
sent
from
thence
his
Mandates
of
death
;
polluting
the
place
with
all
varietie
of
uncleannesse
;
whereupon
it
was
called
the
Iland
of
secret
lusts
,
and
he
Caprenius
:
conversing
there
with
Magicians
,
and
South-sayers
;
whereof
the
Satyr
speaking
of
Sejanus
:
The
Princes
Tutor
glorying
to
be
nam'd
;
Sitting
in
caves
of
Caprae
with
defam'd
Chaldeans
.
Iuv:
Sat.
10.
Ver.
152.
The
long-gown
.
]
The
gowne
was
a
garment
peculiar
to
the
Romanes
,
by
which
they
were
distinguished
from
other
Nations
;
as
of
what
qualitie
among
themselves
by
the
wooll
and
colour
,
fashion
,
and
trimming
.
In
so
much
as
they
were
called
Togati
:
Whereof
Virgil
in
the
person
of
Iupiter
Curst
Juno
,
who
Sea
,
Earth
,
and
Heaven
above
,
With
her
distemper
tires
,
shall
friendly
prove
;
And
joyne
with
us
in
gracing
the
Long-gownd
And
Lordly
Romanes
,
still
with
conquest
crown'd
.
Aen.
l.
1.
Vers.
157.
Their
hate
to
all
&c
]
The
Iews
with
the
hate
of
an
enemy
detested
all
other
Nations
:
would
neither
eat
with
them
,
nor
lodge
in
their
houses
;
but
avoided
the
stranger
as
a
pollution
.
Proud
in
their
greatest
poverty
:
calling
themselves
the
elect
of
God
:
boasting
of
their
Countrey
,
their
Religion
,
and
ancient
Families
:
in
their
conversation
austere
and
respectlesse
.
So
full
of
jealous
envy
,
that
by
a
Decree
in
the
reigne
of
Hircanus
and
Aristobulus
such
suffered
the
dreadfull
censure
of
a
Curse
,
who
instructed
their
sons
in
the
Grecian
Disciplines
:
and
much
regrated
that
the
laws
of
Moses
was
translated
into
a
profane
language
by
the
command
of
Philadelphus
;
expressing
their
grief
by
an
annuall
Fast
,
which
they
kept
on
the
Eighth
day
of
the
moneth
Teveth
.
Vers.
159.
Abjure
for
one
,
&c.
]
Pilat
accuseth
them
here
for
their
piety
:
who
after
the
Captivity
,
as
much
detested
Idolatry
as
they
affected
it
before
:
who
could
not
be
compelled
by
their
Conquerours
to
worship
the
Images
of
Tiberius
Caesar
,
which
Pilat
brought
into
the
Citie
,
but
was
forced
to
carry
them
away
upon
their
refusall
.
Caius
not
long
after
commanded
that
the
Statues
of
the
Gods
should
be
erected
in
their
Temple
;
menacing
,
if
they
should
refuse
it
,
their
utter
subversion
.
But
his
death
prevented
their
ruine
:
who
before
had
made
their
protestation
,
that
they
would
rather
suffer
the
generall
destruction
of
themselves
,
and
their
City
,
then
suffer
such
an
abomination
,
so
repugnant
to
their
Law
and
Religion
.
Vers.
168.
With
how
much
grief
our
swords
&c.
]
Iosephus
mentions
one
slaughter
onely
,
which
Pilat
,
as
then
,
had
made
of
the
Iews
;
and
that
about
the
drawing
of
water
by
conduits
into
the
sacred
Treasury
;
which
divers
thousands
of
the
Iewes
tumultuarily
resisted
.
Pilat
invironed
them
with
his
Souldiers
,
disguised
in
popular
garments
;
who
privately
armed
,
fell
upon
the
naked
People
,
and
by
the
slaughter
of
a
number
appeased
the
mutiny
.
Vers.
234.
Rods
and
Axes
]
Borne
before
the
Romane
Consuls
,
Pretors
,
and
Governours
of
Provinces
:
bound
together
in
bundles
,
to
informe
the
Magistrate
that
he
should
not
be
too
swift
in
execution
,
nor
unlimited
:
but
that
in
the
unbinding
thereof
he
might
have
time
to
deliberate
,
and
perhaps
to
alter
his
sentence
:
that
some
are
to
be
corrected
with
Rods
,
and
others
cut
off
with
Axes
,
according
to
the
quality
of
their
offences
.
Vers.
254.
Since
one
must
die
,
&c.
]
Caiaphas
prophesied
;
being
then
the
High
Priest
,
though
not
of
the
House
of
Aaron
.
He
was
thrown
out
of
his
Office
by
Lucius
Vitellius
,
who
succeeded
Pilat
,
and
Ionathan
the
sonne
of
Annas
placed
in
his
room
:
when
distracted
with
melancholy
and
desperation
,
he
received
his
death
from
his
own
hands
.
Vers.
242.
Stygian
]
Styx
is
a
Fountain
of
Arcadia
,
whose
waters
are
so
deadly
,
that
they
presently
kill
whatsoever
drinks
thereof
:
so
corrodiating
that
they
can
onely
be
contained
in
the
hoof
of
a
mule
.
This
in
regard
of
the
dire
effects
,
was
feigned
by
the
Poets
to
be
a
river
in
Hell
.
Vers.
361.
Solyma
]
So
called
by
the
Grecians
;
as
by
the
Hebrews
Salem
;
and
when
David
had
taken
it
from
the
Iebusites
,
Ierusalem
,
which
is
as
much
as
Jebusalem
,
turning
B
into
R
for
the
better
harmony
:
called
after
the
building
of
the
Temple
Hierosolyma
by
the
Greeks
,
of
Hieron
which
signifies
a
Temple
in
their
language
.
Vers.
264.
From
th'
Isthmos
]
This
Isthmos
lies
between
Aegypt
,
and
the
bottom
of
the
Red
Sea
,
from
whence
to
Euphrates
David
extended
his
conquests
:
inforcing
all
the
Arabians
to
become
his
Tributaries
.
Who
also
overthrew
the
King
of
Sophona
hard
by
the
eruption
of
Tygris
,
overcame
the
Mesopotamians
,
the
King
of
Damascus
,
and
drew
that
City
,
with
all
Syria
,
under
his
obedience
:
having
before
subdued
the
neighbouring
Nations
.
Vers.
267.
Th'
admiring
Queen
,
&c.
]
Josephus
makes
her
Queen
of
Aethiopia
;
and
to
have
bestowed
on
Solomon
that
pretious
Plant
of
Balsamum
,
which
he
after
planted
in
Engaddi
:
but
this
grew
in
Canaan
in
the
dayes
of
Jacob
,
who
sent
a
Present
thereof
,
among
other
fruits
of
that
Countrey
,
into
Aegypt
.
The
Aethiopian
Emperours
glory
in
their
descent
from
Solomon
by
this
Queen
;
in
regard
whereof
they
greatly
favour
the
Jewish
nation
.
They
have
a
Citie
called
Saba
,
which
lies
on
the
West
side
of
the
Arabian
Gulf
.
But
by
the
presents
which
she
brought
,
and
vicinitie
of
the
Countrey
,
it
is
more
probable
that
she
came
from
Saba
,
the
principall
Citie
of
Arabia
the
Happy
.
Vers.
271.
Canopus
Scepter
&c.
]
Kings
of
Aegypt
,
of
Canopus
a
principal
Citie
,
which
stood
on
that
branch
of
Nilus
which
is
next
to
Alexandria
;
taking
that
Name
from
Menelaus
his
Pilot
,
there
buried
by
his
shipwrackt
master
.
Vers.
272.
Those
Monarchs
&c.
]
Chaldean
Monarchs
:
Babylon
,
the
seat
of
their
Empire
;
who
,
as
the
Persians
,
adored
the
Sun
under
the
name
of
Mithra
.
Vers.
274.
Sarrana
]
Tyrus
:
so
called
in
that
it
was
built
on
a
rock
:
the
Arabians
pronouncing
Scar
for
Sar
,
from
whence
the
Tyrian
purple
takes
the
name
of
Scarlet
.
He
Cities
sacks
,
and
houses
fills
with
grones
;
To
lie
on
scarlet
,
drink
in
pretious
stones
.
Virg.
Geor.
l.
c.
Not
onely
Iosephus
,
but
the
Scriptures
,
make
often
mention
of
the
ancient
amitie
between
the
Iews
and
Tyrians
.
Vers.
277.
Ths
land
&c.
]
See
the
Note
upon
V.
275.
Act.
1.
Vers.
283.
Antiochus
guilt
]
Antiochus
Epiphanes
;
who
abrogated
their
Law
,
and
by
threatnings
and
tortures
enforced
the
Iews
to
Idolatry
:
polluting
their
Altar
with
sacrificed
Swine
.
Vers.
291.
Iönian
Gods
]
The
Gods
of
Greece
:
Antiochus
being
of
a
Grecian
Family
,
and
zealous
in
their
Superstitions
.
Vers.
293.
Their
brothers
slew
,
&c.
]
Aristobulus
,
the
first
that
ware
a
Crown
of
the
race
of
the
Asmones
upon
a
false
suspicion
,
by
the
machination
of
Salome
the
Queen
,
caused
his
valiant
and
affectionate
brother
Antigonus
to
be
treacherously
murdred
;
who
before
had
imprisoned
the
rest
of
his
brethren
,
and
famished
his
mother
.
After
the
desperate
death
of
Aristobulus
,
Alexander
his
brother
was
removed
from
a
Prison
to
a
Throne
:
who
slew
his
third
brother
out
of
a
vain
suspicion
of
his
aspiring
to
the
Kingdome
.
To
conclude
,
from
the
first
King
of
the
Asmones
,
to
the
last
of
the
Herods
,
no
history
is
so
fruitfull
in
examples
of
unnaturall
Cruelties
.
Vers.
297.
Twice
vanquished
&c
]
Pompey
was
the
first
of
the
Romanes
that
subdued
the
Iews
:
neither
were
the
Romanes
expulsed
by
any
forrein
Prince
;
but
untill
this
time
maintained
their
Government
.
It
must
then
be
meant
by
their
expulsion
of
one
another
in
their
Civill
warres
:
Iuilus
Coesar
vanquishing
Pompey
:
Mark
Anthony
being
his
Lieutenant
in
Syria
(
who
gave
a
great
part
of
the
Territories
of
the
Iews
to
Cleopatra
)
after
absolute
Lord
of
the
Eastern
parts
of
the
Romane
Empire
;
in
the
end
overthrown
and
deprived
of
all
by
Augustus
.
Vers.
303.
One
part
by
Romane
&c.
]
Iudea
reduced
into
a
Romane
Province
by
Pompey
,
and
then
governed
by
Pontius
Pilat
.
Vers.
304.
The
other
two
by
brothers
&c.
]
Philip
and
Antipas
(
called
also
Herod
)
sons
to
Herod
the
Great
:
the
one
Tetrarch
of
Iturea
,
a
Countrey
which
lies
at
the
foot
of
Libanus
;
and
the
other
of
Galilee
:
to
whōm
Agrippa
succeeded
,
the
son
of
Aristobulus
slain
by
his
father
Herod
,
with
the
title
of
a
King
bestowed
by
Coesar
.
Vers
305.
From
savage
Idumaeans
]
Antipater
,
the
father
of
Herod
,
was
an
Idumoean
;
who
in
the
contention
between
the
two
brethren
Hircanus
and
Aristobulus
,
about
the
Kingdome
,
took
part
with
Hircanus
;
and
grew
so
powerfull
,
that
he
made
a
way
for
his
son
to
the
Soveraigntie
,
though
he
himself
was
prevented
by
poyson
.
Vers.
327.
That
Name
]
Iehova
.
ANNOTATIONS
VPON
THE
THIRD
ACT.
VErse
47.
Brutish
Thunder
]
The
Philosophers
will
have
two
sorts
of
Lightning
:
calling
the
one
fatall
,
that
is
,
pre-appointed
and
mortall
;
the
other
Brutish
,
that
is
,
accidentall
,
and
flying
at
random
.
Vers.
119.
He
,
whom
&c.
]
Herod
Antipas
;
then
Tetrarch
of
Galilee
:
whose
father
Herod
the
Great
so
magnificently
reedified
the
Temple
,
that
the
glory
of
the
latter
exceeded
that
of
the
former
.
Verse
122.
The
land
&c.
]
Phoenicia
;
the
ancient
kingdome
of
Agenor
,
son
to
Belus
Priscus
:
who
was
reputed
a
God
after
his
death
,
and
honoured
with
Temples
;
called
Bel
by
the
Assyrians
,
and
Baal
by
the
Hebrews
.
Verse
142.
Whose
flouds
in
Summer
swell
]
Nilus
,
which
constantly
begins
to
rise
with
the
rising
Sunne
on
the
seventeenth
of
Iune
,
increasing
by
degrees
,
untill
it
make
all
the
Land
a
Lake
.
Not
ty'd
to
laws
of
other
Streams
;
the
Sun
When
furthest
off
,
thy
streams
then
poorest
run
:
Intemperate
heaven
to
temper
,
midst
of
heat
,
Vnder
the
burning
Zone
,
bid
to
grow
great
.
Then
Nile
assists
the
world
;
lest
fire
should
quell
The
Earth
:
and
make
his
high-borne
waters
swell
Against
the
Lions
flaming
jaws
.
—
Lucan
.
l.
10.
Ver.
187.
The
free
born
]
It
was
the
custome
of
the
Romanes
to
punish
slaves
onely
with
whips
,
but
their
children
and
the
free
,
with
rods
.
Verse
195.
The
wreathed
Thorns
]
in
reverence
of
this
crown
of
Thorns
,
which
was
platted
about
the
brows
of
our
Saviour
,
the
Christians
forbare
to
wear
any
garlands
on
their
heads
in
their
Festivalls
;
although
it
were
the
custome
of
those
Nations
,
among
whom
they
lived
.
Vers.
221.
Thou
liquid
chrystall
,
&c.
]
Pilat
washt
not
his
hands
to
expresse
his
innocencie
,
as
a
Romane
Custome
;
but
therein
observing
the
Iewish
Ceremony
:
which
was
,
that
he
who
would
professe
himself
guiltlesse
of
a
suspected
Man
slaughter
should
wash
his
hands
over
a
Heifer
,
with
her
head
cut
off
.
Verse
338.
Let
it
fall
&c.
]
This
imprecation
soon
after
fell
upon
them
in
all
the
fulnesse
of
horrour
;
and
throughout
the
world
at
this
day
pursues
them
.
Verse
233.
Drag
him
to
the
Crosse
,
&c.
]
Pilat
not
onely
out
of
fear
,
and
against
his
conscience
;
but
therein
infringed
a
Law
lately
made
by
Tiberius
,
in
the
sudden
execution
:
for
by
the
same
no
offendour
was
to
suffer
within
ten
dayes
after
his
condemnation
.
But
he
met
with
a
Nemesis
;
soon
after
turn'd
out
of
his
Government
by
Vitellius
for
his
cruelty
inflicted
upon
the
Samaritanes
,
and
sent
to
Rome
with
his
accusers
.
But
Tiberius
dying
before
his
arrivall
,
he
was
banished
the
Citie
by
Caius
:
who
troubled
in
minde
,
and
desperate
of
restitution
,
slew
himself
at
Vienna
in
France
within
two
yeares
after
.
Vers.
238.
If
thou
be
he
,
&c.
]
By
this
place
taken
out
of
the
Gospel
,
it
appeares
that
divers
of
the
Iews
were
of
the
opinion
of
the
Pythagoreans
,
or
the
Pythagoreans
of
theirs
,
concerning
the
transmigration
of
Soules
into
other
bodies
.
All
alter
,
nothing
finally
decayes
:
Hither
and
thither
still
the
Spirit
strayes
;
Guest
to
all
Bodies
:
out
of
beasts
it
flies
To
men
,
from
men
to
beasts
,
and
never
dies
.
As
pliant
wax
each
new
impression
takes
;
Fixt
to
no
forme
,
but
still
the
old
forsakes
;
Yet
it
the
same
:
so
Soules
the
same
abide
,
'Though
various
figures
their
reception
hide
.
Ovid.
Met.
l.
15.
Herod
conceived
that
the
Soule
of
Iohn
the
Baptist
,
by
him
wickedly
murdered
,
was
entered
into
the
body
of
our
blessed
Saviour
:
And
Iosephus
in
his
Oration
to
his
desperate
Companions
in
the
Cave
of
Iotopata
:
Those
poore
Soules
which
depart
from
this
life
by
the
law
of
Nature
,
and
obediently
render
what
from
God
they
received
,
shall
by
him
be
placed
in
the
highest
Heavens
;
and
from
thence
againe
,
after
a
certaine
revolution
of
time
,
descend
by
command
to
dwell
in
chaste
bodies
.
Vers.
249.
Slaine
for
a
dancer
]
This
daughter
of
Herodias
,
as
Nicephorus
writes
,
going
over
a
River
that
was
frozen
,
fell
in
all
but
the
head
,
which
was
cut
off
with
the
yce
,
as
her
body
waved
up
and
downe
underneath
.
Vers.
331.
Sadock
]
The
Author
of
the
Sect
of
the
Sadduces
.
See
the
Note
upon
Vers.
43.
Act.
1.
ANNOTATIONS
VPON
THE
FOVRTH
ACT.
VErse
35.
To
Warre
the
fatall
way
]
The
City
of
Ierusalem
is
onely
on
that
side
assailable
:
there
forced
and
entred
by
the
Babylonians
,
and
after
by
Pompey
.
Vers.
36.
Golgotha
]
Mount
Calvary
:
a
rocky
hill
,
neither
high
,
nor
ample
,
lying
then
without
the
North-West
wall
of
the
City
:
the
publique
place
of
execution
.
Here
they
say
that
Abraham
would
have
sacrificed
Isaac
;
in
memory
whereof
there
now
standeth
a
Chappell
:
as
an
Altar
,
where
the
Head
of
Adam
was
found
,
which
gave
the
name
to
that
Mount
:
buried
in
that
place
that
his
bones
might
be
sprinkled
with
the
reall
bloud
of
our
Saviour
,
which
he
knew
would
be
there
shed
by
a
propheticall
fore-knowledge
.
It
is
said
to
stand
in
the
midst
of
the
Earth
;
which
must
needs
be
meant
by
the
then
habitable
:
for
what
middle
can
there
be
in
a
Sphericall
Body
?
V.
49.
The
Nazarite
]
Not
as
Sampson
by
vow
,
nor
of
that
Sect
:
but
so
called
of
that
City
,
wherein
he
was
conceived
,
and
where
he
inhabited
after
his
returne
out
of
Aegypt
.
Vers.
52.
Mixt
with
the
bitter
tears
of
Myrrh
]
Some
suppose
that
this
was
proffered
him
by
his
friends
,
being
of
a
stupifying
qualitie
,
to
make
him
lesse
sensible
of
his
torments
.
But
it
appeares
by
Petronius
and
Pliny
,
that
it
was
a
mixture
much
used
in
their
delights
:
Whereof
Martial
The
teares
of
Myrrh
in
hot
Falernum
thaw
:
From
this
the
Wine
a
better
taste
will
draw
.
Epig.
l.
14.
Strengthning
the
body
,
and
refreshing
the
Spirits
;
and
therefore
more
likely
proffered
by
his
enemies
to
prolong
his
sufferings
.
Vers.
81.
His
inward
Robe
]
There
be
,
who
write
that
this
was
woven
by
the
Virgin
Mary
:
and
we
reade
in
the
Scriptures
,
as
frequently
in
Homer
and
other
Authors
,
that
women
,
and
those
of
the
highest
qualitie
,
usually
wrought
garments
for
their
Children
and
Husbands
.
Vers.
203.
The
Center
pants
,
&c.
]
This
Earth-quake
proceeded
not
from
the
Windes
imprisoned
in
the
bowels
of
the
Earth
,
strugling
to
break
forth
,
or
from
any
other
naturall
cause
,
but
by
the
immediate
singer
of
God
.
Vers.
205.
The
Sunne
affrighted
hides
,
&c.
]
Miraculous
;
without
the
interposition
of
the
Moone
,
or
palpable
Vapours
,
was
that
defect
of
the
Sunne
,
and
unnaturall
Darknesse
,
in
the
sixth
houre
of
the
Day
:
which
appeareth
by
the
Text
to
have
cover'd
all
the
World
,
and
not
Iudea
alone
,
as
some
have
conjectured
.
Divers
Authours
have
recorded
this
in
their
Annals
and
Histories
:
but
none
so
exactly
as
Dionysius
Areopagita
;
who
then
resided
in
Aegypt
,
and
was
an
eye-witnesse
.
Vers.
240.
The
greedy
hollowes
of
a
Spunge
,
&c
]
Physicians
agree
that
Vineger
being
drunk
,
or
held
to
the
nose
,
hath
in
it
a
naturall
Vertue
for
the
stenching
of
bloud
.
Pliny
attributes
the
like
to
Hyssop
,
and
the
better
if
joyned
.
Neither
is
it
to
be
thought
that
the
Iews
offered
this
unto
IESUS
in
humanity
,
but
rather
out
of
their
hatred
,
that
by
prolonging
his
Life
untill
the
Evening
,
his
legges
might
have
been
broken
to
the
increase
of
his
torments
.
Vers.
256.
Pale
troopes
of
wandring
Ghosts
]
These
were
the
reall
bodies
of
the
dead
,
which
entred
the
City
from
their
graves
(
for
it
was
,
as
now
,
their
Custome
to
bury
in
the
fields
)
and
seen
by
day
.
Whereas
deluding
Spirits
assume
an
Aery
,
thinne
and
fluxative
Body
,
condensed
by
cold
,
but
dissipated
by
heate
,
and
therefore
onely
appeare
in
the
Night
time
.
Which
Virgil
intimates
in
the
Ghost
of
Anchises
:
And
now
farewell
:
the
humid
Night
descends
;
I
sent
Day
's
breath
in
his
too-swift
repaire
.
This
said
,
like
smoak
,
he
vanisneth
to
aire
.
Aen.
l.
12.
Ver.
259
The
cleaving
Rocks
]
The
Rock
of
Mount
Calvary
was
rent
by
that
Earth-quake
from
the
top
to
the
bottome
,
which
at
this
day
is
to
be
seene
:
the
rupture
such
as
Art
could
have
no
hand
in
;
each
side
answerable
ragged
,
and
there
where
unaccessible
to
the
workman
.
Vers
263.
Old
Chaos
now
returnes
]
That
confused
Masse
,
out
of
which
God
created
the
beautifull
World
:
into
which
it
was
imagined
that
it
should
be
againe
reduced
.
The
aged
World
,
dissolved
by
the
Last
And
fatall
Houre
,
shall
to
Old
Chaos
hast
.
Stars
,
justling
Stars
,
shall
in
the
Deepe
confound
Their
radiant
fires
:
the
Land
shall
give
no
bound
To
swallowing
Seas
:
the
Moone
shall
crosse
the
Sun
,
With
scorne
that
her
swift
wheeles
obliquely
run
,
Dayes
throne
aspiring
.
Discord
then
shall
rend
The
Worlds
crackt
Frame
,
and
Natures
Concord
end
.
Lucan
.
l.
4.
But
many
of
our
Divines
are
of
opinion
,
that
the
World
shall
neither
be
dissolved
nor
anihilated
:
strengthning
their
assertion
out
of
the
eighth
of
the
Romanes
,
and
other
places
of
Scripture
.
Ver.
238.
Th'
amaz'd
Centurion
]
To
this
Centurion
,
who
professed
CHRIST
to
be
the
Sonne
of
God
,
they
give
the
name
of
Longinus
,
and
honour
him
with
the
crowne
of
Martyrdome
.
Vers.
296.
The
Temples
Veile
]
Described
by
Iosephus
to
consist
of
Violet
,
Purple
,
and
Scarlet
Silke
,
cunningly
mixt
&
wrought
by
Babylonian
Needles
:
the
colours
containing
a
mysticall
sense
.
Such
was
that
of
Solomons
,
and
of
the
travelling
Tabernacle
;
but
that
they
were
powdred
with
Cherubins
.
This
,
it
should
seeme
,
was
renewed
by
Herod
,
when
he
so
magnificently
repaired
the
Temple
.
It
hung
before
the
Sanctum
Sanctorum
;
into
which
none
but
the
High
Priest
,
and
that
but
once
in
the
yeer
,
was
to
enter
:
violated
by
Pompey
,
pursued
by
a
miserable
Destiny
.
There
was
an
out-ward
Veile
,
not
unlike
the
other
,
which
separated
the
Priests
from
the
People
:
this
,
contrary
to
the
Opinion
of
our
Authour
,
Baronius
conceives
to
be
that
which
then
rent
asunder
:
interpreted
to
signifie
the
finall
abolishing
of
the
Law
Ceremoniall
.
They
write
that
at
the
tearing
thereof
a
Dove
was
seene
to
flye
out
of
the
Temple
.
Vers.
319.
Or
God
doth
this
abhorr'd
&c.
]
Eusebius
,
St.
Ierome
,
and
others
report
,
that
with
this
Earthquake
at
the
Passion
,
the
Doores
of
the
Temple
flew
open
,
and
that
the
Tutular
Angels
were
heard
to
cry
,
Let
us
remove
from
this
place
:
though
Iosephus
referre
it
to
the
destruction
of
the
Temple
.
Vers.
362.
Tyrian
Gades
]
Gades
,
now
called
Cales
,
an
Iland
lying
on
the
South
of
Spaine
without
Hercules
Pillars
,
held
to
be
the
uttermost
Confines
of
the
Western
World
,
was
planted
by
a
Colony
of
the
Tyrians
.
Vers.
363.
As
yet
sees
not
thy
panting
Horses
,
&c.
]
A
Charriot
and
Horses
were
attributed
to
the
Sunne
,
in
regard
of
the
swiftnesse
of
his
Motion
;
and
to
expresse
what
is
beyond
the
object
of
the
sense
by
that
which
is
subject
unto
it
.
These
also
by
the
Idolatrous
Iews
were
consecrated
unto
him
.
The
Sunne
was
feined
to
descend
into
the
Sea
,
because
it
so
appeareth
to
the
eye
;
the
Horizon
being
there
most
perspicuous
.
Vers.
371.
Hath
some
Thessalian
Witch
,
&c.
]
The
Thessalian
women
were
infamous
for
their
inchantments
:
said
to
have
the
power
to
darken
the
Sunne
,
and
draw
the
Moone
from
her
Spheare
.
Such
Lucans
Erictho
:
Her
words
to
poyson
the
bright
Moone
aspire
;
First
pale
,
then
red
,
with
darke
and
terrene
fire
:
As
when
deprived
of
her
Brothers
sight
,
Earth
interposing
his
Coelestiall
Light
:
Perplext
with
tedious
Charmes
,
and
held
below
,
Till
she
on
under
Hearbs
her
gelly
throw
.
Phar
.
l.
6.
The
Author
of
this
opinion
was
Aglonice
the
daughter
of
Hegaemon
:
who
being
skilfull
in
Astronomy
,
boasted
to
the
Thessalian
women
(
foreknowing
the
time
of
her
Eclips
)
that
she
would
performe
it
at
such
a
season
:
which
hapning
accordingly
,
and
they
beholding
the
distemper'd
Moone
,
gave
credit
to
her
deception
.
The
like
may
arise
from
the
Eclipses
of
the
Sunne
,
Vers.
372.
What
new
Phaëton
]
The
fable
of
Phaëton
,
the
sonne
of
Phoebus
,
as
the
Allegory
,
is
notorious
;
who
by
misguiding
the
Charriot
of
the
Sunne
set
all
the
World
on
a
conflagration
.
Vers.
377.
As
when
sterne
Atreus
&c.
]
Atreus
,
having
had
his
bed
dishonored
by
his
brother
Thyestes
,
slew
his
children
,
and
gave
them
for
food
to
their
father
:
when
the
Sunne
,
to
avoid
so
horrid
a
sight
,
fled
back
to
the
Orient
.
So
fained
in
that
Atreus
first
discovered
the
Annuall
Course
of
the
Sun
,
which
is
contrary
to
his
Diurnall
.
Vers.
379.
Ilia's
god-like
sonne
,
&c.
]
Romulus
:
cut
into
a
hundred
pieces
by
the
hundred
Lords
of
the
Senate
,
for
being
so
rigorous
to
them
,
and
so
indulgent
to
the
People
;
every
one
carrying
a
piece
away
with
him
under
his
long
Gowne
to
conceale
the
murder
:
when
Iulius
Proculus
,
to
appease
the
People
,
swore
that
he
saw
him
ascend
into
Heaven
:
whereupon
they
consecrated
Temples
unto
him
,
and
gave
him
divine
honours
;
changing
his
Name
into
Quirinus
.
Vers.
383.
Or
hath
that
Day
,
&c.
]
The
Great
Yeere
:
when
all
the
Planets
(
here
called
Gods
because
they
carry
their
Names
)
shall
returne
to
that
position
which
they
were
in
at
the
beginning
:
Comprising
,
according
to
Cicero's
Hortensius
,
the
revolution
of
twelve
thousand
nine
hundreth
and
fifty
yeers
.
Vers.
390.
If
the
World
perish
by
licentious
fire
]
The
Romanes
could
not
then
have
this
from
St.
Peter
;
but
rather
from
the
Prophesies
of
the
Sibyls
:
These
Signes
the
Worlds
combustion
shall
fore-run
:
Armes
clashing
,
Trumpets
,
from
the
rising
Sun
Horrible
fragors
,
heard
by
all
:
this
Frame
Of
Nature
then
shall
feed
the
greedy
flame
.
Men
,
Cities
,
Floods
,
and
Seas
,
by
rav'nous
lust
Of
Fire
devour'd
,
all
shall
resolve
to
dust
.
Orac.
l.
4.
From
hence
perhaps
the
Ancient
Philosophers
derived
their
opinions
;
as
Seneca
a
Latter
,
The
Stars
shall
incounter
one
another
,
and
what
now
shines
so
orderly
,
shall
burne
in
one
Fire
.
Vers.
395.
Either
the
groaning
world
,
&c.
Vers.
397.
Do
proud
Titanians
&c
]
The
Poets
feigne
that
the
angry
Earth
,
to
be
revenged
of
the
Gods
,
brought
forth
the
Titans
,
as
after
the
Gyants
;
who
by
throwing
mountains
upon
mountains
attempted
to
scale
the
Heavens
,
and
disinthrone
Iupiter
;
who
overthrew
them
with
his
Lightning
,
and
cast
those
conjested
Mountains
upon
them
.
Pherecydes
the
Syrian
writes
,
how
the
Devils
were
cast
out
of
Heaven
by
Iupiter
(
this
fall
of
the
Giants
perhaps
alluding
to
that
of
the
Angels
:
)
The
chief
called
Ophionius
,
which
signifies
Serpentine
:
having
after
made
use
of
that
Creature
to
poyson
Eve
with
a
false
ambition
.
Vers.
400.
Dire
Python
]
A
prodigious
Serpent
,
which
after
Deucalions
Floud
lay
upon
the
Earth
like
a
Mountain
,
and
slain
by
Apollo
:
the
sense
of
the
Fable
being
meerely
Physicall
;
for
Python
born
after
the
deluge
of
the
humid
Earth
,
was
that
great
Exhalation
,
which
rose
from
the
late
drowned
world
;
at
length
dissipated
by
the
fervour
of
the
Sunne
,
or
Apollo
.
The
Earth
then
soak'd
in
showres
,
yet
hardly
dry
,
Threw
up
thick
clouds
,
which
darkned
all
the
Sky
:
This
was
that
Python
.
Pont.
Meteor
.
The
word
signifies
putrefaction
:
and
because
the
Sun
consumes
the
putrefaction
of
Earth
,
his
beams
darting
from
his
Orb
like
arrows
,
with
his
arrows
he
is
said
to
have
slain
Python
.
Vers.
400.
Lerna's
Fen
]
In
this
lay
that
venemous
Serpent
Hydra
;
which
is
said
to
have
many
Heads
,
whereof
one
being
cut
off
,
two
rose
in
the
room
more
terrible
then
the
former
,
and
with
her
poysnous
breath
to
have
infected
all
the
Territories
adjoyning
.
This
Fable
had
a
relation
to
that
place
,
which
through
the
eruption
of
waters
annoyed
the
neighbouring
Cities
;
when
one
being
stopt
many
rose
in
the
room
:
this
Hercules
perceiving
,
burnt
them
with
fire
.
Corruption
boyls
away
with
heat
;
And
forth
superfluous
vapours
sweat
.
But
Physically
,
Hydra
signifies
water
,
and
Hercules
according
to
Macrobius
,
presenteth
the
Sunne
,
whose
extraordinary
fervour
dried
up
those
noysome
and
infectious
vapours
.
Vers.
404.
Lyaeus
gave
to
man
lesse
precious
wine
]
Lyaeus
is
a
name
of
Bacchus
,
because
wine
refresheth
the
Heart
,
and
freeth
it
from
sorrow
.
Noah
was
he
who
immediately
after
the
Floud
first
planted
a
Vineyard
and
shewed
the
use
of
wine
unto
man
:
wherefore
some
write
that
of
Noachus
he
was
called
Boachus
,
and
after
Bacchus
by
the
Ethnicks
,
either
by
contraction
,
or
through
ignorance
of
the
etymologie
.
This
comparison
hath
relation
to
Christ's
conversion
of
water
into
such
excellent
wine
at
Cana
in
Galilee
.
Vers.
405.
Not
Hercules
so
many
Monsters
slew
]
Hercules
,
saith
Seneca
,
travelled
over
the
world
,
not
to
oppresse
it
,
but
to
free
it
from
Oppressours
;
and
by
killing
of
Tyrants
and
Monsters
to
preserve
it
in
tranquillitie
.
But
how
much
more
glorious
were
the
victories
of
Christ
;
who
by
suffering
for
Sinne
,
subdued
it
;
led
Captivity
captive
,
was
the
death
of
Death
;
triumphing
over
Hell
,
and
those
Spirits
of
Darknesse
.
Vers.
406.
Vnshorn
Apollo
desse
in
Physick
knew
]
Apollo
;
to
whom
they
attribute
long
yellow
haire
,
in
regard
of
his
beautifull
Beams
,
is
said
to
have
invented
the
Art
of
Physick
(
his
name
importing
a
preservation
from
evil
)
because
the
Sunne
is
so
powerfull
in
producing
physicall
Simples
,
and
so
salubrious
to
our
bodies
:
when
Christ
by
his
own
Vertue
cured
all
diseases
;
gave
sight
to
the
blinde
by
birth
,
which
surpasseth
the
power
of
art
;
threw
out
wicked
Spirits
from
the
tortured
bodies
of
the
possessed
;
and
called
the
Dead
from
their
beds
of
death
to
converse
again
with
the
Living
.
Verse
419.
With
the
Religion
of
the
Samean
]
Of
Pythagoras
of
Samos
;
who
by
his
doctrine
and
example
withdrew
the
Crotonians
from
luxury
and
idlenesse
to
temperance
and
industry
;
calming
the
perturbations
of
the
Minde
with
the
musick
of
his
Harp
:
for
he
held
that
Vertue
,
Strength
,
all
Good
,
and
even
God
himself
,
consisted
of
Harmony
:
That
God
was
the
Soul
of
the
World
;
from
whence
each
creature
received
his
life
;
&
dying
,
restored
it
.
And
lest
it
might
be
doubted
that
the
Souls
of
all
had
not
one
Originall
,
in
regard
of
their
different
understandings
,
he
alleadged
how
that
proceeded
from
the
naturall
complexion
&
composition
of
the
Body
,
as
more
or
lesse
perfect
:
whose
opinions
are
thus
delivered
by
Virgil
.
The
arched
Heavens
,
round
Earth
,
the
liquid
Plain
,
The
Moons
bright
Orb
,
and
Starres
Titanian
,
A
Soul
with-in
sustaines
;
whose
Vertues
passe
Through
every
part
,
and
mix
that
huge
Masse
.
Hence
men
,
hence
beasts
,
what ever
fly
with
wing
,
And
Monsters
in
the
marble
Ocean
spring
:
Of
Seed
divine
,
and
fiery
Vigour
,
full
;
But
what
grosse
flesh
,
and
dying
member
dull
.
Thence
fear
,
desire
,
grief
,
joy
;
nor
more
regard
Their
heavenly
Birth
,
in
those
blinde
Prisons
barr'd
.
Aen.
l.
6.
Moreover
,
he
held
that
this
visible
Soul
or
Godhead
,
diffused
throughout
all
the
world
,
got
it self
such
diversitie
of
Names
,
by
the
manifold
operations
which
it
effected
in
every
part
of
the
visible
Vniverse
.
Vers.
420.
Nor
Thracian
Harp
,
wilde
Beasts
instructing
,
can
]
Orpheus
of
Thrace
;
who
with
the
musick
of
his
Harp
and
voice
attracted
even
beasts
and
sencelesse
stones
to
heare
him
.
The
morall
of
which
Fable
may
parallell
with
that
of
Amphion
.
Orpheus
the
Gods
Interpreter
,
from
blood
Rude
men
at
first
deterr'd
,
and
savage
food
:
Hence
said
to
have
Tygers
and
fell
Lions
tam'd
.
Amphion
so
,
who
Theban
bulwarks
fram'd
,
T'
have
led
the
stones
with
musick
of
his
lute
,
And
milde
requests
.
Of
old
in
high
repute
:
Publick
from
Private
,
Sacred
from
Prophane
,
To
separate
;
and
wandring
Lust
restrain
With
matrimoniall
ties
;
faire
Cities
raise
,
Laws
stamp
in
brasse
.
This
gave
the
honour'd
Bayes
To
sacred
Poets
,
and
to
verse
their
praise
.
Horat.
de
Art.
Poet
.
It
is
apparent
by
his
Testament
to
his
Scholar
Musaeus
(
whereof
certain
verses
are
recited
by
Iustin
Martyr
)
that
his
opinion
in
divinitie
was
in
the
main
agreeable
with
the
sacred
Scriptures
:
As
of
one
God
,
the
Creator
of
Heaven
and
Earth
,
the
Authour
of
all
good
,
and
punisher
of
all
evil
;
exhorting
him
to
the
hearing
and
understanding
of
that
knowledge
which
was
revealed
from
Heaven
:
meaning
nothing
else
by
those
various
Names
which
he
gives
to
the
Gods
,
but
divine
and
naturall
Vertues
:
shadowing
God
himself
under
the
Name
of
Iupiter
to
avoid
the
envy
and
danger
of
those
times
;
as
is
almost
evident
by
these
attributes
.
Omnipotent
Jove
;
the
First
,
the
Last
of
things
;
The
Head
,
the
Midst
:
all
from
Joves
bounty
springs
:
Foundation
of
the
Earth
,
and
starry
Skie
:
A
Male
,
a
Female
;
who
can
never
die
.
Spirit
of
all
:
the
Force
of
awfull
Fire
;
Sourse
of
the
Sea
;
Sun
,
Moon
,
th'
Originall
,
The
End
of
all
things
;
and
the
King
of
all
.
At
first
conceal'd
,
then
by
his
wond'rous
Might
And
sacred
Goodnesse
,
all
produc'd
to
light
.
Vers.
421.
Nor
that
prophetick
Boy
,
&c.
]
Of
whom
Ovid
.
The
Nymphs
and
Amazonian
this
amaz'd
,
No
lesse
then
when
the
Tyrrhen
Plow-man
gaz'd
Vpon
the
fatall
clod
,
that
mov'd
alone
;
And
,
for
a
humane
shape
,
exchang'd
his
own
.
With
infant
lips
,
that
were
but
earth
of
late
,
Reveal'd
the
Mysteries
of
future
Fate
:
Whom
Natives
Tages
call'd
.
He
,
first
of
all
,
Th'
Hetrurians
taught
to
tell
what
would
befall
.
Met.
l.
15.
And
Cicero
,
in
his
second
book
of
Divination
:
Tages
,
when
the
Earth
was
turned
up
,
and
the
Plow
had
made
a
deeper
impression
,
ascended
(
as
they
say
)
in
the
Tarquinian
fields
,
and
spake
to
the
Tiller
.
It
is
written
in
the
Hetrurian
Records
that
he
was
seen
in
the
form
of
a
Boy
,
although
old
in
wisdome
.
The
Husband-man
amazed
,
and
exalting
his
voice
,
drew
thither
a
great
concourse
of
People
;
and
with-in
awhile
all
Thuscany
:
who
spake
many
things
in
that
populous
audience
;
by
them
remembred
,
and
committed
to
writing
.
His
oration
onely
contained
the
discipline
of
Divination
by
the
entrails
of
beasts
:
which
after
increased
by
experience
,
but
is
referred
to
this
Originall
.
A
delusion
of
the
Devils
to
introduce
that
Superstition
.
ANNOTATIONS
VPON
THE
FIFTH
ACT.
VErse
30.
O
may
they
perish
,
&c.
]
This
imprecation
comprehends
those
following
calamities
which
the
Divine
Vengeance
inflicted
on
the
Iews
:
more
,
and
more
horrid
,
then
ever
befell
any
other
Nation
.
Vers.
35.
Let
the
great
in
Warre
,
&c.
]
Titus
Vespasian
:
who
besieged
Ierusalem
when
almost
all
the
Iewish
Nation
was
within
the
Walles
,
there
met
to
celebrate
the
Passeover
:
who
took
it
by
force
,
consumed
the
Temple
with
fire
,
(
which
fell
on
that
day
in
which
it
was
formerly
burnt
by
the
Chaldeans
)
and
levelled
the
City
with
the
ground
:
eleven
hundred
thousand
Iewes
there
perishing
by
famine
,
pestilence
,
and
the
sword
:
another
hundred
thousand
Captives
were
publikely
sold
,
for
a
Romane
penny
a
Iew
;
and
sixteene
thousand
sent
to
Alexandria
for
servill
imployments
:
two
thousand
of
the
most
beautifull
and
personable
young
men
reserved
to
attend
on
his
Triumph
,
who
after
,
to
delight
the
Spectators
,
were
torne
in
pieces
by
wild
beasts
in
the
Amphitheater
.
Vers.
26.
Let
Diseases
sow
,
&c.
]
During
the
siege
the
Pestilence
violently
raged
,
proceeding
from
the
stench
of
dead
bodies
,
to
whom
they
afforded
no
buriall
,
but
piled
them
up
in
their
houses
,
or
threw
them
over
the
Wall
of
the
City
.
Vers.
41.
Famine
,
in
their
dry
entrailes
,
&c.
]
Vnexpressible
was
the
Famine
they
indured
;
and
pittifull
,
if
they
themselves
had
had
any
pitty
:
enforced
to
seeth
their
Girdles
and
Shooes
,
and
fighting
fiercely
with
one
another
for
so
course
a
diet
.
Driven
in
the
end
to
that
exigent
,
that
they
were
faine
to
rake
the
sincks
and
privies
,
and
to
feede
on
that
which
was
loathsome
to
behold
;
neither
could
they
keep
what
they
found
from
the
rapine
of
others
.
Vers.
44.
The
Babe
re-enter
her
,
&c.
]
Hunger
had
so
overcome
Nature
,
that
a
Woman
of
riches
and
honour
,
named
Mary
,
being
daily
rob'd
of
her
provision
by
the
Seditious
,
slew
her
owne
childe
which
suckt
at
her
brest
,
and
having
sodden
one
halfe
thereof
,
eat
it
.
When
at
the
sent
of
flesh
,
they
broke
in
upon
her
;
who
presented
them
with
the
rest
;
the
theeves
then
hardly
refraining
,
though
they
trembled
at
so
horrid
a
Spectacle
.
Vers.
45.
While
yet
the
eager
Foe
,
&c.
]
The
enemy
assailed
them
without
,
and
the
Seditious
massacred
one
another
within
;
divided
into
three
parties
:
the
Zealous
,
the
Idumaean
Robbers
,
and
the
rest
of
the
mutinous
Citizens
:
but
upon
every
assault
of
the
Romanes
,
setting
their
private
hatred
aside
,
united
themselves
,
as
if
of
one
Minde
,
and
with
admirable
courage
repulsed
the
Enemy
:
but
upon
the
least
cessation
renewed
their
bloudy
discord
;
some
beginning
with
their
owne
hands
to
set
the
Temple
on
fire
.
Vers.
47.
Let
th'
Enemy
,
&c.
]
See
the
Notes
upon
the
35.
Verse
.
Verse
.
50.
The
Reliques
of
their
slaughter
,
]
In
the
dayes
of
Adrian
,
the
Iewes
raised
a
new
Commotion
:
of
whom
his
Lieutenant
,
Iulius
Severus
,
slew
five
hundred
and
foure
score
thousand
;
transporting
the
rest
into
Spaine
by
the
command
of
the
Emperour
:
so
that
Iewry
was
then
without
Iews
,
as
it
continues
to
this
present
.
Vers.
52.
Despis'd
,
and
wretched
,
wander
,
&c.
]
Out
of
Spaine
they
were
banished
in
the
yeer
1500.
by
Ferdinand
and
Emanuel
.
Now
scattred
throughout
the
whole
World
,
and
hated
by
those
among
whom
they
live
;
yet
suffered
as
a
necessary
mischiefe
:
subject
to
all
wrongs
and
contumelies
;
who
can
patiently
submit
themselves
to
the
times
,
and
to
whatsoever
may
advance
their
profit
.
Vers.
53.
Abolish'd
by
their
Law
,
&c
]
This
they
lost
in
the
destruction
of
their
City
.
Yet
daily
expect
that
Messias
who
is
already
come
:
and
,
as
they
beleeve
,
shall
restore
them
to
their
temporall
Kingdome
.
Vers.
55.
This
infected
soyle
,
&c.
]
The
Ecclesiasticall
Histories
report
,
how
Ioseph
of
Arimathea
,
after
he
had
suffered
imprisonment
by
the
envy
of
the
Iews
,
and
was
delivered
by
an
Angel
,
left
his
Countrey
,
and
sailed
to
Marcellis
in
France
:
from
thence
passing
over
into
this
Iland
,
he
preached
the
Gospell
to
the
Brittaines
and
Scots
:
who
there
exchanged
this
life
for
a
better
.
Vers.
95.
Who
knows
but
soone
a
holier
Age
,
&c.
]
Helena
the
Mother
of
Constantine
,
throwing
downe
the
Fane
of
Venus
,
which
Adrian
had
erected
on
Calvary
,
covered
both
the
Mount
and
Sepulchre
with
a
magnificent
Temple
,
which
yet
hath
resisted
the
injuries
of
Insolence
and
Time
:
and
what
was
before
without
,
in
reverence
to
the
place
,
is
now
in
the
heart
of
the
City
.
To
recover
this
from
the
Saracens
,
divers
of
the
Westerne
Princes
have
unfortunately
ventured
their
Persons
and
People
:
though
Godfry
of
Bullein
,
with
an
Army
of
three
hundred
thousand
,
made
of
the
City
and
Country
an
absolute
Conquest
:
Whose
Successours
held
it
for
fourescore
and
nine
yeers
,
and
then
beaten
out
by
Saladine
the
Aegyptian
Sultan
.
Yet
yeerly
is
the
Sepulchre
visited
,
though
now
in
the
possession
of
the
Turke
,
from
all
parts
of
the
World
by
thousands
of
Christians
,
who
there
pay
their
vowes
,
and
exercise
their
Devotions
.
Vers.
109.
Of
his
Royall
Bloud
,
&c
]
Of
Davids
:
See
the
Notes
upon
the
264.
Verse
of
the
second
Act
.
Vers.
139.
Not
that
fierce
Prince
,
&c.
]
Herod
the
Great
,
the
murderer
of
the
Infants
:
who
put
three
of
his
sonnes
to
death
;
with
his
wife
Mariamme
,
whom
he
frantickly
affected
.
Vers.
140.
Nor
his
Successour
,
&c.
]
Herod
Antipas
,
who
cut
off
the
Head
of
Iohn
the
Baptist
.
Vers.
189.
You
neighbours
to
the
Sunnes
up-rise
]
The
Persian
Magi
.
FINIS
.