Note 76 — THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.
Reading edition
This refers to a popular tract published in 1622, under that title, in favour of the Low Countries, and for the purpose of prejudicing the people of England against the marriage which Villiers was negotiating when this poem was addressed to him. The negotiation was not only disgraceful, but unsuccessful:
—αισχρον γαρ ἡμιν, και προς αισχυνη κακον.