• Aglauros through envy opposed the interview of Mercury with her sister Herse, and was changed by the god into stone. Ovid, Metamorphoses , I , Addison’s Tr. :⁠— “ ‘Then keep thy seat forever,’ cries the god, And touched the door, wide opening to his rod. Fain would she rise and stop him, but she found Her trunk too heavy to forsake the ground; Her joints are all benumbed, her hands are pale, And marble now appears in every nail. As when a cancer in the body feeds, And gradual death from limb to limb proceeds, So does the chillness to each vital part Spread by degrees, and creeps into her heart; Till hardening everywhere, and speechless grown, She sits unmoved, and freezes to a stone. But still her envious hue and sullen mien Are in the sedentary figure seen.” ↩
• The falconer’s call or lure, which he whirls round in the air to attract the falcon on the wing. ↩
• Ovid, Metamorphoses , I , Dryden’s Tr. :⁠— “Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.” ↩