1 So forth she comes, and to her coach does climb, 2 Adorned all with gold, and garlands gay, 3 That seemed as fresh as Flora in her prime, 4 And strove to match, in royal rich array, 5 Great Juno's golden chair; which, they say, chair > chariot (see _Iliad_ 5.727. Juno is the queen of the gods, sister and wife of Jupiter) 6 The gods stand gazing on, when she does ride 7 To Jove's high house through heaven's brass-paved way, To Jove's high house > (See _Met._ 2.533 ff.) heaven's brass-paved way > (See _Iliad_ 14.173) 8 Drawn of fair peacocks, that excel in pride, of > by excel > surpass [all] others 9 And full of Argus eyes their tails dispread wide. Argus > (Argus Panoptes, watchman with a hundred eyes, set by Juno to watch Io and killed by Mercury; Juno placed his eyes in the tail of the peacock. See _Met._ 1.622-723; _SC_, gloss to "Julye" and to "October") dispread > spread out 104.18 But this was drawne of six vnequall beasts, 2 On which her six sage Counsellours did ryde, Taught to obay their bestiall beheasts, 4 With like conditions to their kinds applyde: Of which the first, that all the rest did guyde, 6 Was sluggish _Idlenesse_ the nourse of sin; Vpon a slouthfull Asse he chose to ryde, 8 Arayd in habit blacke, and amis thin, Like to an holy Monck, the seruice to begin. 1 But this was drawn of six unequal beasts, of > by unequal > different, ill-matched 2 On which her six sage counsellors did ride, 3 Taught to obey their bestial behests, 4 With like conditions to their kinds applied: With like conditions to their kinds applied > (Literally, "With similar qualities to their natures employed"; each beast was appropriate to its rider) 5 Of which the first, that all the rest did guide, 6 Was sluggish Idleness, the nurse of sin; Idleness > [Sloth] 7 Upon a slothful ass he chose to ride, 8 Arrayed in a habit black, and amice thin, amice > cap, hood, cape (of some religious order) 9 Like a holy monk, the service to begin. 104.19 And in his hand his Portesse still he bare, 2 That much was worne, but therein little red, For of deuotion he had little care, 4 Still drownd in sleepe, and most of his dayes ded; Scarse could he once vphold his heauie hed, 6 To looken, whether it were night or day: May seeme the wayne was very euill led, 8 When such an one had guiding of the way, That knew not, whether right he went, or else astray. 1 And in his hand his portas still he bore, portas > {Portable breviary, Roman Catholic prayer-book containing the Divine Office for each day} still > ever, continually 2 That much was worn, but therein little read, therein little > [little] 3 For of devotion he had little care, 4 Still drowned in sleep, and most of his days dead; Still > Ever