• That is, to the eyes of Beatrice, whose beauty he may seem to postpone, or regard as inferior to the splendors that surround him. He excuses himself by saying that he does not speak of them, well knowing that they have grown more beautiful in ascending. He describes them in line 33 of the next canto:⁠— “For in her eyes was burning such a smile That with mine own methought I touched the bottom Both of my grace and of my Paradise!” ↩
• Sincere in the sense of pure; as in Dryden’s line⁠— “A joy which never was sincere till now.” ↩
• The Heaven of Mars continued. ↩
• This star, or spirit, did not, in changing place, pass out of the cross, but along the right arm and down the trunk or body of it. ↩
• A light in a vase of alabaster. ↩