16. =With that.= At the same time. =Swannes.= "Paulus Jovius, who died in 1552, describing the Thames, says: 'This river abounds in swans, swimming in flocks; the sight of whom and their noise are vastly agreeable to the fleets that meet them in their course.'"--_Knight's Cyclopedia of London._ 17. =lee.= Water, or river. See "Faerie Queene," V, ii, 19: "His corps was carried downe along the lee, Whose waters with his filthy bloud it stayned." Also, _Ibid._, IV, ii, 16: "As when two warlike brigandines at sea, With murdrous weapons arm'd to cruell fight, Do meete together on the watry lea." The word is of Celtic origin, and is very common as a river-name in England, Ireland, France, and other parts of Western Europe. 18. =nor nothing near.= In early English two negatives did not destroy each other, as now, but made the negation more emphatic. 19. =Eftsoones.= Soon after. From A.-S. _eft_, after, and _sona_, soon. 20. =Somers-heat.= The two ladies celebrated in this poem, it will be remembered, were Lady Elizabeth and Lady Katherine Somerset. 21. The Peneus river, the most important stream in Thessaly, forces its way through the Vale of Tempe, between Mounts Ossa and Olympus, into the sea. 22. =loves couplement.= Marriage. 23. =heart-quelling Sonne.= Cupid. 24. =assoile.= Free from, put off. "Through long watch, and late daies weary toile, She soundly slept, and carefull thoughts did quite assoile." --_Faerie Queene_, III, i, 58. 25. =bord.= "Bed" and "board" are two associated terms, very frequently so used, which imply the performance of the two acts necessary for the maintenance of life--sleeping and eating. See Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors," Act v, sc. i: "In bed he slept not for my urging it, At board he fed not for my urging it." Also, "As You Like It," Act v, sc. iv: "Wedding is great Juno's crown-- O blessed bond of board and bed!" 26. =redoubled.= Repeated. =undersong.= Refrain, burden. 27. =neighbour.= See note 10, on Burns's "Cotter's Saturday Night." 28. =shend.= Outshine, shame, disgrace. From A.-S. _scendan_. 29. =my most kyndly nurse.= Although born in London, the poet was "descended from the ancient and honourable family of Spencer, of Althorpe in Northamptonshire." 30. "When the order of the Knights Templar was suppressed in Edward the Second's reign, their London estate on the bank of the Thames was given over to the Knights of St. John; by these it was leased to the students of the Common Law, who, not finding a home at Cambridge or Oxford, were at that time in want of a habitation."--_Hales._ 31. =stately place.= This stood in the gardens where the Outer Temple should have been. In 1580 it was occupied by the Earl of Leicester, and here Spenser was for a time entertained, as he asserts in the following line. The great lord whom he mentions was Leicester.