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NOTES TO PP. 273–86
26 The Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, ed. Wilbur Cortez Abbot, 4 vols.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1937–47, vol. II, p. 270.
27 Michael Wilding, Dragons Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution, Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1987, p. 163.
28 James Turner, The Politics of Landscape: Rural Scenery and Society in English Poetry
1630–1660, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979, p. 76.
29 Gage, The English-American Travail by Sea and Land: or, a New Survey of the West-
India’s, London: 1648. Among other points made in “The Epistle Dedicatory,” Gage
strenuously urges Fairfax “to employ the Souldiery of this Kingdom upon such just
and honourable designes in those parts of America” so that the New World will be
liberated “From Spanish Yoke, and Romes Idolatry.” (The last phrase is from Thomas
Chaloner’s prefatory poem.) Chapter XII is devoted to a description of “the famous
City of Mexico.” The anti-cloister satire occurs on pp. 26–7. Issues of patronage have
been ignored by Fairfax’s biographers, in marked contrast to the detailed treatment
given to his many battles. One wonders whether “Bermudas” might not belong to
Marvell’s time at Appleton House.
30 Wallace, Destiny His Choice: The Loyalism of Andrew Marvell, p. 232.
31 Kelliher, Andrew Marvell: Poet and Politician, London: British Museum Publications
Ltd, 1978, p. 48.
32 Wallace, Destiny His Choice: The Loyalism of Andrew Marvell, p. 107.
33 Criticism of Marvell and Cromwell abounds; the mutually—and undeniably—fruitful
relationship between Milton and Marvell, however, remains one of the most elusive
chapters in literary history. One almost always feels, while reading Marvell, in frequent
touch with only the tip of a Miltonic iceberg. Christopher Hill provides a biographical
overview in “Milton and Marvell” in Approaches to Marvell: The York Tercentenary
Lectures, ed. C.A.Patrides, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978, ch.1.
34 Annabel Patterson, Marvell and the Civic Crown, Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1978, p. 158.
35 Zwicker, “Virgins and Whores: The Politics of Sexual Misconduct in the 1660s,” in
The Political Identity of Andrew Marvell, p. 97.
36 The Poems and Letters of Andrew Marvell, p. 351.
37 Andrew Marvell: The Critical Heritage, ed. Elizabeth Story Donno, London:
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978, p. 55.
38 The only other time that “majesty” appears as a noun is in “The Statue in Stocks-
Market,” whose inclusion in The Poems and Letters of Andrew Marvell is “in spite of
the want of evidence” (p. 394). See A Concordance to the English Poems of Andrew
Marvell, ed. George R.Guffey, Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina
Press, 1974, p. 302.
39 In addition to Colie’s brief remarks in “My Ecchoing Song”: Andrew Marvell’s Poetry
of Criticism, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970, pp. 6–8, I have learned
much from the more specialized studies of the poem by Joseph Anthony Wittreich,
Jr., “Perplexing the Explanation: Marvell’s ‘On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost’,” in
Approaches to Marvell, ch. 13, and Kenneth Gross, “‘Pardon Me, Mighty Poet’:
Versions of the Bard in Marvell’s ‘On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost’,” Milton Studies
16 (1982):77–96.
40 The Poems and Letters of Andrew Marvell, vol. II, p. 304.
41 My thinking on this issue has been sharpened by Sharon Achinstein, Milton and the
Revolutionary Reader, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994, pp. 58–70.
42 Patterson, Marvell and the Civic Crown, p. 31.
43 Quoted in Andrew Marvell, ed. Kermode and Walker, pp. xiii–xiv.
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