“Slew all their white fleec’d sheep and _neat_.”
The original was “prize their life,” and the use of “neat” as a singular
in this way is so uncommon, if not unprecedented, and the verse as
corrected so halting, that we have no doubt Lovelace so wrote it. Of
course “hollowed” should be “hallowed,” though the broader pronunciation
still lingers in our country pulpits.
“What need she other bait or charm
But look? or angle but her arm?” (p. 65.)
So the original, which Mr. Hazlitt, missing the sense, has changed to
“what hook or angle.”
“Fly Joy on wings of Popinjays
To courts of fools _where_ as your plays
Die laught at and forgot.” (p. 67.)