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'Snuff:' a candle-end or wick.--ee

'Murray:' Lord Mansfield.

'Fabled boy:' Narcissus.

'Yorke:' Lord Chancellor Hardwick.

'Above:' in a former Night.

'Prussia:' under Frederick the Great.

'One departed world:' the world before the flood.

'Being lost:' referring to the First Night.

'Her:' Lucia.

'Favonian:' of or relating to the west wind. Mild; benign.--ee

'Prometheus:' Night Eighth.

'Intestine:' adj., internal; civil.--ee

'Elance:' to throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart.--ee

'Lately fought:' Night Eighth.

'Orrery:' a mechanical model of the solar system.--ee

'Grots:' grottos.--ee

'Tenebrious:' Dark and gloomy; ominous.--ee

'He who drank:' Socrates.

'He of Tusculum:' Cicero.

'Him of Corduba:' Seneca.

'Defecate:' to remove ; clarify.--ee

'Ajalon's:' "Sun, stand thou still on Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon" .--ee

'Fane:' place dedicated to some deity, a sanctuary, fr. fari to speak.--ed.

'Jakes:' latrine or privy.--ee

'Him of Uz:' referring to Job's language, 'Oh that I knew where I might find him!' &c.

'Eridanus,' or Phaeton: famous for his fall from the chariot of the sun.

'Great Vine:' John xv. 1.

'Lately:' Nights Sixth and Seventh.

'Philip's ear:' 'Remember, Philip, thou art mortal.'

Prov. viii. 31.

'Titled:' The Consolation.

'Him of Gaza:' Samson.