"But gnawing Jealousy out of their sight,
Sitting alone, his bitter lips did bite."
68. Wakefield quotes Milton, _Sonnet to Mr. Lawes_: "With praise
enough for Envy to look wan."
69. _Grim-visag'd, comfortless Despair_. Cf. Shakes. _Rich. III_. i.
1: "Grim-visag'd War;" and _C. of E._ v. 1: "grim and comfortless
Despair."
76. _Unkindness' altered eye_. "An ungraceful elision" of the
possessive inflection, as Mason calls it. Cf. Dryden, _Hind and
Panther_, iii.: "Affected Kindness with an alter'd face."
79. Gray quotes Dryden, _Pal. and Arc._: "Madness laughing in his
ireful mood." Cf. Shakes. _Hen. VI._ iv. 2: "But rather moody mad;"
and iii. 1: "Moody discontented fury."
81. _The vale of years_. Cf. _Othello_, iii. 3: "Declin'd Into the
vale of years."