So afterwards in the present poem we find _Cidippes_ for Cydippe, v. 885; and see note, p. 123. v. 70. —— _the darte of lede_] From Ovid, _Met._ i. 471. v. 291. _ne wolde_] i. e. would not. v. 292. _herte_] i. e. heart. v. 295. _Meddelyd with murnynge_] i. e. Mingled with mourning. v. 296. _O thoughtfull herte_] See note, p. 101. v. 10. v. 298. _loke_] i. e. look. v. 300. _the tre as he did take_ _Betwene his armes, he felt her body quake_] From Ovid, _Met._ i. 553. Page 374. v. 302. _he assurded into this exclamacyon_]—_assurded_, i. e. broke forth—a word which I have not elsewhere met with, but evidently formed from the not uncommon verb _sourd_, to rise. “Ther withinne _sourdeth_ and spryngeth a fontayne or welle.” Caxton’s _Mirrour of the world_, 1480. sig. e v.: in that work, a few lines after, occurs “_resourdeth_.” v. 306. _adyment_] i. e. adamant. v. 307. _ouerthwhart_] i. e. cross, perverse, adverse. v. 310. _Sith_] i. e. Since. v. 314. _gresse_] i. e. grass. This stanza is also imitated from Ovid, _Met._ i. 521. v. 315. _axes_] See note, p. 100. v. 9. v. 317. _raist_] i. e. arrayest: see note on title of poem, p. 197. v. 318. _But sith I haue lost, &c._] Again from Ovid, _Met._ i. 557. v. 324. _poetis laureat, &c._] It must be remembered that formerly a _poet laureat_ meant a person who had taken a degree in grammar, including rhetoric and versification: and that the word _poet_ was applied to a writer of prose as well as of verse; “_Poet_ a connyng man.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lv. (Table of Subst.). “And _poetes_ to preoven hit. Porfirie and Plato Aristotle, Ovidius,” &c. _Peirs Plouhman_, p. 210. ed. Whit. “Nor sugred deties [ditties] of Tullius Cicero.” Lydgate’s _Lyfe and passion of seint Albon_, sig. B ii. ed. 1534. Page 374. v. 328. _Esiodus, the iconomicar_] i. e. Hesiod, the writer on husbandry (the eds. by a misprint have “icononucar,”—which Warton says he “cannot decypher.” _Hist. of E. P._, ii. 352 (note), ed. 4to.) Among _MSS. Dig. Bod._ 147. is “Carmen Domini Walteri de Henleye quod vocatur _Yconomia_ sive Housbundria:” compare Cicero; “quam copiose ab eo [Xenophonte] agricultura laudatur in eo libro, qui est de tuenda re familiari, qui _Œconomicus_ inscribitur.” _Cato Major_, c. 17. v. 329. _fresshe_] i. e. elegant: see note, p. 302. v. 39. Page 375. v. 335. _engrosyd_] i. e. plumped up, swollen. —— _flotis_] i. e. flowings,—drops: various reading, “droppes;” see note _ad l._ (“_Flotyce._ Spuma.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499, is a distinct word.) v. 338. _Percius presed forth with problemes diffuse_]—_presed_, i. e. pressed: _diffuse_, i. e. difficult to be understood; see note, p. 144. v. 768. “Skelton, undoubtedly a man of learning, calls Persius (not unhappily for his mode of thinking) _a writer of problems diffuse_.” Gifford’s Introd. to _Persius_, p. xxxi. ed. 1817.