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Great clymbers) according to Seneca his verse,
Decidunt celsa grauiore lapsu
Mickle) much
The sonne) A reason, why he refuseth to dwell on
Mountames, because there is no shelter against
the scortching sunne According to the time of
the yeare, whiche is the whotest moneth of all
The Cupp and Diademe) Be two signes in the
Firmament, through which the sonne maketh his
course in the moneth of Iuly
Lionli Thys is Poetically spoken, as if the Sunne
did hunt a Lion with one Dogge Ihe meaning
whereof is, that in Iuly the sonne is in Leo At
which tyme the Dogge starre, which is called
Syrius or Camcula reigneth, with immoderate
heate causing Pestilence, drougth, and many
diseases
Ouerture) an open place The word is borrowed of
the French, and vsed in good writers
To holden chatt) to talke and prate
A loorde) was wont among the old Batons to
signifie a Lorde And therefore the Danes, that
long time vsurped theyr Tyrannie here in
Brytanu, were called for more dreaa then
dignitie Lurdanes s Lord Danes At which
time it is sayd, that the insolencie and pryde of
that nation was so outragious in thys Realme,
that it it fortuned a Briton to be going ouer
a bridge, and sawe the Dane set foote vpon the
same, he muste retorne back, till the Dane were
cleane ouer, or els abyde the pryce of his dis
pleasure, which was no lesse, then present death
But being afterwarde expelled that name of
Lurdane became so odious vnto the people,
whom they had long oppressed, that euen at
this daye they vse for more reproche, to call the
Quartane ague the Feuer Lurdane
Reeks much of thy swinck) counts much of thy I
p aynes
eetelesse) not vnderstoode
S Michels mount) is a promontone in the West
part of England
A hill) Parnassus afforesayd Pan Christ
Dan) One trybe is put for the whole nation per
Synecdochen
Where Titan) the Sonne Whieh story is to be
redde in Diodorus Syc of the hyl Ida, from
whence he sayth, all night time is to bee scene
a mightye fire, as if the skye burned which
toward morning begtnneth to gather into a rownd
forme, and thereof ryseth the sonne whome the
Poetes call Titan
The Shepheaid) is Lndvmion, whom the Poets
fayne, to haue bene so beloued of Phoebe s the
Moone. that he was by her kept a sleepe in
a caue by the space of xxx yeares, for to enioye
his companye
There) that is in Paradise, where through errour of
shepheards vnderstanding, he sayth thit all
sh( pheards did vse to (cede theyr flocks till one,
(that is Adami by hys follye and disobedience,
made all the rest of hys of spring be debarred
and shutte out from thence
Synah) a hill in Arabia, where God appeared
Our Ladyes bowre) a place of pleasure so called
Faunes or Syluanes) be of Poetes feigned to be
Gods of the Woode
Medway) the name of a Ryuer in Kent, which
running by Rochester, meeteth with Thames,
whom he calleth his elder brother, both because
he is greater, and also falleth sooner into the Sea
Meynt) mingled
Melampode and Terebinth) be hearbes good to
cure diseased Gotes Of thone speaketh Man
tuane, and of thother Theocritus
Nigher heanen) Note the shepheards simplenesse,
which supposeth that from the hylls is nearer
waye to heauen
Leuin) Lightning, which he taketh for an argu
rnent, to proue the nighnes to heauen, because
the lightning doth comenly light on hygh moun
taynes, according to the saying of the Poete
Fermntque summos fulmina montes.
Lorrell) A losell A borell) a playne fellowe
Narre) nearer Hale) for hole
Yede) goe Frowye) mustye or mossie
Of yore) long agoe Forewente) gone afore
The firste shepheard) was Abell the righteous, who
(as scripture sayth) bent hys mind to keeping of
sheepe, as did hys brother Ca.in to tilling the
grownde
His keepe) hys charge s his flocke
Lowted) did honour and reuerence
The brethren) the twelue sonnes of Iacob, whych
were shepemaisters, and lyued onelye thereupon
Whom Ida) Pans, which being the sonne of
Priamus king of Troy, for his mother Hecubas
dreame, which being with child of hym, dreamed
shee broughte forth a firebrand, that set all the
towre of Ilium on fire, was cast forth on the hyll
Ida, where being fostered of shepheards, he eke
in time became a shepheard, and lastly came to
knowledge of his parentage
A lasse) Helena the wyle of Menelaus king of
Lacedemonia, was by Venus for the golden Aple
to her geuen, then promised to Pans, who thereupon
with a sorte of lustye Troyanes, stole her
out of Lacedemonia, and kept her in Troye
Which was the cause of the tenne yeares warre
in Troye, and the moste famous citve of all Asia
most lamentably sacked and defaced
Argus) was of the Poets deuised to be full of eyes,
and therefore to hym was committed the keeping
of the transformed Cow Io So called because
that in the print of a Cowesfoote, there is figured
an I in the middist of an O
His name) he meaneth Aaron whose name for
more Decorum, the shephearde sayth he hath
forgot, lest his remembraunce and skill m
antiquities of holy writ should seeme to exceede
the meanenessc of the Person
Not so true) for Aaron in the absence of Moses
started aside, and committed Idolatry
In purple) Spoken of the Popes and Cardinalles,
which vse such tyrannical colours and pompous
paynting
Belts) Girdles
Glitterand) Glittering A Participle vsed some
time in Chaucer, but altogether in I Goore
Theyr Pan) that is the Pope, ubom they count
theyr Goa and greatest shepheard
Palinode) A shephearde, of whose report he seemeth
to speake all thys
Wisards) greate learned heads
Welter) wallowe
Kerne) a Churle or Farmer
Sike mister men) such kinde of men
Surly) stately and prowde
Melling) mealing
Bett) better Bynempte) named
Gree) for degree
Algrin the name of a shepheard afforesayde, whose