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oon trembling in her soft and chilly nest, | 235In sort of wakeful swoon, perplex’d she lay,Until the poppied warmth of sleep oppress’d Her soothed limbs, and soul fatigued away ;lth nice aie ae 221, Amethyst = violet. Commonly a violet-colored preciousstone, so called primitively because it was belicyed to have the virtue ofpreventing drunkenness, ~222, A glory. So nimbus, and aureola. 229. Bodice. Formerly bodies, from fitting close to the body, as Fr.corset, from corps, **A woman’s bodies, or a pair of bodies, corset,corpset.”” Ben Jonson writes Jodies, see an Lilegie ; . *“The whalebone manThat quilts those bodies I have leave to span,” for probably here those bodies = that bodice: but it is possible it may= those bodices. Laced bodices seem to have been the mode in thefirst half of the eighteenth century. 231. Mermaid =sea-maid. J/eris of the samef amily as the mor inAr-mor-i-ca and in Mor-ini, the Lat. mare, Eng. mar-iner, mar-ish ormar-sh, etc. - 237. Prosaically, the epithet poppied should perhaps be attached tosleep, rather than to warmth, but indeed warmth of elecp is but a phrase
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