FOOTNOTES:
Reading edition
Mottled to simpletons; blue to women; Crimson to kings of every host; Green and black to noble laymen; White to clerics of proper devotion.
The haunt of seals, and orca, and sea-mews' clang. —Paradise Lost, Book XI, line 835.
How art thou faded thus in the face, That shone before as the sun so bricht(bright).