“They saw a maid who thitherward did runne, To catch her sparrow which from her did swerue, As shee a black-silke Cappe on him begunne To sett, for foile of his _milke-white_ to serue.” _Arcadia_, lib. i. p. 85. ed. 1613. and Drayton; “I haue two Sparrowes _white as Snow_.” _The Muses Elizium_, p. 14. ed. 1630. v. 216. _importe_] i. e. impart. v. 218. _solas_] i. e. amusement. Page 58. v. 227. _hear_] i. e. hair. v. 230. _kest_] i. e. cast. v. 242. _bederoule_] See note on v. 12. p. 122. v. 244. _Cam, and Sem_] i. e. Ham, and Shem. v. 247. _the hylles of Armony_]—_Armony_, i. e. Armenia.—So in _Processus Noe_; “What grownd may this be? _Noe. The hyllys of Armonye._” _Townley Myst._ p. 32. See also Lydgate’s _Fall of Prynces_, B. i. leaf iiii. ed. Wayland, and Heywood’s _Foure P. P._, sig. A i. ed. n. d. v. 248. _Wherfore the birdes yet cry_ _Of your fathers bote_] The reading of Kele’s ed., “bordes,” (as I have already observed _ad loc._) is perhaps the true one;—(compare _Pierce Plowman_; “And [God] came to Noe anone, and bad him not let Swyth go shape a shype of shydes and of _bordes_.” Pass. Non. sig. M ii. ed. 1561.)— and qy. did Skelton write,— “_Whereon_ the _bordes_ yet _lye_?” v. 253. _it hyght_] i. e. it is called. Page 59. v. 264. _prest_] See note on v. 127, preceding page. v. 272. _hardely_] i. e. assuredly. v. 273. _vengeaunce I aske and crye_] Compare _Magnus Herodes_; “_Venjance I cry and calle._” _Townley Myst._ p. 149. v. 281. _Carowe_] See note on v. 8. p. 121. v. 282. _carlyshe kynde_] i. e. churlish nature. v. 283. _fynde_] i. e. fiend. Page 59. v. 284. _vntwynde_] i. e. tore to pieces, destroyed: so again in our author’s _Garlande of Laurell_; “This goodly flowre with stormis was _vntwynde_.” v. 1445. vol. i. 418. Page 60. v. 290. _Lybany_] i. e. Libya. v. 294. _mantycors_] “Another maner of bestes ther is in ynde that ben callyd _manticora_, and hath visage of a man, and thre huge grete teeth in his throte, he hath eyen lyke a ghoot and body of a lyon, tayll of a Scorpyon and voys of a serpente in suche wyse that by his swete songe he draweth to hym the peple and deuoureth them And is more delyuerer to goo than is a fowle to flee.” Caxton’s _Mirrour of the world_, 1480. sig. e vii. See also R. Holme’s _Ac. of Armory_, 1688. B. ii. p. 212.—This fabulous account is derived from Pliny. v. 296. _Melanchates, that hounde, &c._] See the story of Actæon in Ovid’s _Metam._; “Prima _Melanchætes_ in tergo vulnera fecit.” iii. 232. v. 305. _That his owne lord bote,_ _Myght byte asondre thy throte!_] —_bote_, i. e. bit.—So in _Syr Tryamoure_; “He toke the stuarde by the _throte_, And _asonder_ he it _botte_.” _Early Pop. Poetry_ (by Utterson), i. 28. v. 307. _grypes_] i. e. griffins.