Note 135 — COLEBROOK DALE.
Reading edition
l. 7. Fair-hair’d Naiades—In Milton’s Comus we find the plural of Naiad made three syllables, thus
“Amid the flowery kirtled Naiades.”
And the old pastoral poet, Browne, so pluralizes the word Nereid, thus
“Call to a dance the fair Nereides.”