Line 329. _Dishevells._--Spreads in disorder (an intransitive use). "Their hair, curling, dishevels about their shoulders." (Sir T. Herbert.) Line 330. _Queene of devills._--Probably Persephone, the wife of Pluto, who ruled amongst the shades of the departed. Line 332. _Mavors_ or _Mavers_ is the form from which _Mars_ is contracted. Line 337. _Silenus for streight backe._--Silenus is usually depicted as a fat, jovial old man, intoxicated and requiring support. The comparison is of course ironical. Line 339. _Rine_ = rind or bark. The O. E. form was rinde; but for a similar omission of _d_ in the literary language cf. _lime_ (O. E. linde) and _lawn_ (M. E. launde). Line 342. _Whose nose, etc._--Cf. _Midsummer Night's Dream_, v. 338. A similar jest occurs in Peele's "Old Wives' Tale": "Her corall lippes, her crimson chinne." Line 345. _Thy._--MS. has _they_. Line 360. _Cruell_, _huge_, are the epithets properly belonging to _elephant_; _changing_, _small_, to _chameleon_. See Introduction. Line 396. _Ile beare thee light._--If this expression be an idiom, I can find no other instance of it; cf., however, the analogous phrase "to bear hard," _i.e._ to take ill (_Julius Cæsar_, ii. 1, 215; 1 _Henry IV._ i. 3, 270). The punning character of the passage makes it difficult to determine what exact meaning Florida wishes to convey. A not improbable sense would be obtained by supplying a comma after _thee_, and thus turning _light_ into a nominative of address. Line 397. _Lurden_, a clown, sluggard, ill-bred person (Halliwell). "And seyde, lurden, what doyst thou here? Thou art a thefe, or thefys fere." (MS. _Cantab_, Ff. ii. 38, f. 240.) The word occurs in _Piers Plowman_. Line 399. _O Oedipus I am not, I am Davus._--A quotation from Terence, _Andria_, i. 2, 23: "Davus sum, non Oedipus." Line 400. _Master Davis._--Evidently an intentional anglicizing of the classical name. Line 406. _Vastitye._--So MS., possibly for _vastilye_. Line 408. _As true as Helen, etc._--Cf. the professions of Pyramus and Thisbe (where, however, no irony is intended), _Midsummer Night's Dream_, v. 1, 200-203. Line 413. _Loves._--So MS. for _love_. Line 413. _I am ore shooes in it._--Cf. _Two Gentlemen of Verona_, i. 1, 23: "That's a deep story of a deeper love, For he was more than over shoes in love." Line 414. _Mountenance_, quantity, amount. The translation of the _Romaunt of the Rose_, attributed to Chaucer, has--"The mountenance of two fynger hight." Line 422. _Never ioyd it since._--Cf. 1 _Henry IV._ ii. 1, 13: "Poor fellow, never joyed since the price of oats rose; it was the death of him." Line 426. _Pay_ = beat (still used dialectically): "They with a foxe tale him soundly did pay." (_The King and a poore Northerne Man_, 1640.)