⁷ Mundum.

⁸ Compositis.

⁹ I have endeavoured to give some intelligible sense to these lines; but the absence of syntax in the original, as it now stands, makes it necessary to guess at the meaning as best one may.

¹⁰ Venturi aevi.

¹¹ "But in them nature's copy's not eterne." - Shakespeare, Macbeth, act iii. scene 2.

¹² Saecula.

¹³ Saecula.

¹⁴ Sermone tenus: i.e., the exertion (so to speak) needed to do such mighty works only extended to the uttering of a speech; no more was requisite. See for a similar allusion to the contrast between the making of other things and the making of man, the Genesis, 30-39.

¹⁵ Dicto.

¹⁶ i.e., from the solid mass of earth. See Gen. i. 9, 10.

¹⁷ Faciem.

¹⁸ "Auram," or "breeze."

¹⁹

"Immemor ille Dei temere committere tale!

Non ultra monitum quidquam contingeret."Whether I have hit the sense here I know not. In this and in other passages I have punctuated for myself.

²⁰ Munera mundi.

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