[Footnote III.75: The posy of a ring?] Such poetry as you may find engraven on a ring.
[Footnote III.76: Phoebus' cart] A chariot was anciently called a cart.
[Footnote III.77: Tellus' orbèd ground,] i.e., the globe of the earth. Tellus is the personification of the earth, being described as the first being that sprung from Chaos.
[Footnote III.78: My operant powers their functions leave to do:] i.e., my active energies cease to perform their offices.
[Footnote III.79: What we do determine, oft we break.] Unsettle our most fixed resolves.