1. Muse: a guiding spirit; source of inspiration.

6. colour: 1) paint; 2) false pretense.   his: its.   colour: hue.   fix'd: unchangeable; native.

7. pencil: painter's brush.   lay: lay in, as with an artist's brush.

8. intermix'd: adulterated.

9. dumb: mute.

12. of: by.

13. office: function.