_Waldenses_.
'Whom obloquy pursues with hideous bark.' [Sonnet XIV.l.

8.] The list of foul names bestowed upon those poor creatures is long and curious;--and, as is, alas! too natural, most of the opprobrious appellations are drawn from circumstances into which they were forced by their persecutors, who even consolidated their miseries into one reproachful term, calling them Patarenians, or Paturins, from _pati_, to suffer.
Dwellers with wolves, she names them, for the pine And green oak are their covert; as the gloom Of night oft foils their enemy's design, She calls them Riders on the flying broom; Sorcerers, whose frame and aspect have become One and the same through practices malign.
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_Borrowed Lines_.
'And the green lizard and the gilded newt Lead unmolested lives, and die of age.' [Sonnet XXI.ll.

7-8.] These two lines are adopted from a MS., written about 1770, which accidentally fell into my possession.

The close of the preceding Sonnet 'On Monastic Voluptuousness' is taken from the same source, as is the verse, 'Where Venus sits,' &c., and the line, 'Once ye were holy, ye are holy still,' in a subsequent Sonnet.
851.