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NOVEMBER 463
GLOSSE
Iouisaunee)myrth Souenaunce) remembraunce
Hene) honour
Welked) shortned or empayred As the Moone
being in the waine is sayde of Lidgatc to welk
In lowly lay) according to the season of the moneth
Nouember, when the sonne draweth low in the
South toward his Tropick or returne
In 6shes haske)the sonne, re'gneth that is, in the
signe Pisces all Nouember A haske is a wicker
pad, wherein they vse to cary fish
Virelaies) a light kind of song
Bee hatred) For it is a saying of Poetes, that the)
haue dronk of the Muses well Castahas, whereof
was before sufficiently sayd
Drenment) dreery and neauy cheere
The great shepheard) 13 some man of high degree,
and not as some vainely suppose God Pan The
person both of the shephearde and of Dido is
vnknowen and closely buried in tho Authors
conceipt But out of doubt I am, that it is not
Rosalind as some lmagin for he speaketh soone
after of her also
Shene)fayre and shining May) for mayde
Tene) soi row Guerdon) rew ard
Bynempt) bequcthed
Cosset) a lambe brought vp wtthout the dam
Vnkempt) Incotnpti Not comed, that is rude and
vnhansome
Melpomene) The sadde and waylefull Muse vsed
of Poets in honor of Tragedies as saith Virgile
Melpomene Tragico proclamat maesta boatu
Vp gnesly gosts) The maner of Tragicall Poetes,
to call for helpe of Furies and damned ghostes
so is Hecuba of Funpides, and Tantalus Drought
in of Seneca And the rest of the rest
Herse)is the solemne obsequie in funeralles
Wast of) decay of so beautifull a peece
Carke) care+
Ah why) an elegant Epanorthosis As also soone
after Nay time was long ago
Flouret) a diminutiue for a little floure This is
a notable and sententious comparison A minore
ad maius
Reliuen not) hue not againe s not in theyr earthly
bodie s for in heauen they enjoy their due
reward
The braunch) He meaneth Dido who being, as it
were the may nebiaunch now with cred the buddes
that is beautie (as he sayd aloie) can no more
flourish
With cakes) fit for shepheards bankets
Heame) for home After the northerne pro
nouncing
Tinct) de yed or stayned
The gaudie) the meaning is. that the things, which
wen the ornaments of her lyfe are made the
honor of her funerall, as is vsed in burialls
Lobbin) the name of a shepherd, which seemeth to
haue bene the louer and deere frende of Dido
Rushrings) agreeable for such base gyftes
Faded locke s) dryed leaues As if Nature her selfe
bewayled the death of the Mayde
Sourse) spring
Mantled medowes) for the sondry flowres are like
a Mantle or couerlet wrought with many colours
Philomele) the Nightingale Whome the Poetes
fame once to haue bene a Ladyeof gr< at beauty,
till being rauished by hir sisters husbande, she
desired to be turned into a byrd of her name
Whose complaintes be very well set forth of
Ma George Gaskin a wittie gentleman, and the
very chefe of our late rymers, who and if some
partes of learning wanted not (albee it is well
knowen he altogyther wanted not learning) no
doubt would haue attayned to the excelleneye of
those famous Poets For gifts of wit and
naturall promptnesse appeare in hym aboun
dantly
Cypresse) vsed of the old Paynims in the furnishing
of their funerall Pompe And properly the signe
of all sorow and heauinesse
The fatalI sisters) Clotho Lachesis and Atropos,
daughters of Herebus and the Nighle, whom the
Poetes fayne to spinne the life of man, as it were
a long threde, which they drawe out in length,
till his fatal how re and timely death be come,
but if by other casualtie his dayes be abridged
then one of them that is Atropos, is sayde to
haue cut the threde in twain Hereof commeth
a common verse
Clotho colum baiulat, laehesis trahit, Atropos
occat
O trustlesse) a gallant exclamation moralized with
great wisedom and passionate w>th great
affection
Beare) a frame, wheron they vse to lay the dead
corse
Furies) of Poetes be feynec' to be three, Persephone
Alecto and Megera, which are sayd to be the
Authours of all euill and mischiefe
Eternall might) Is death or darknesse of hell
Betight) happened
I see) A liuely Icon, or representation as if he saw
her in heauen present
Elysian fieldes} be deuised of Poetes to be a place
of pleasure like Paradise, where the happye soules
doe rest in peace and eternal happynesse
Dye would) The very expresse saying of Plato in
Phaedone
Astert) befall Vnwares
Nectar and Ambrosia) be feigned to be the drink
and foodE of the gods Ambrosia they liken to
Manna in scripture and Nectar to be white like
Creme, whereof is a proper tale of Hebe, that
spilt a cup of it, and stayned the heauens, as yet
appcareth But I haue already discoursed that
at large in my Commentarye vpon the dreames
of the sime Authour
Meynt) Mingled
Embleme
Which is as much to say, as death biteth not Tor
although by course of nature we be borne to dyt,
and being ripened With age, as with a timely
haruest, we must be gathered in time, or els of
out selues we fall like rotted ripe fruite fro the
tree yet death is not to be counted for euil, nor
(as the Poete sayd a little before) as doome of ill
desert For though the trespasse of the first man
brought death into the world, as the guerdon of
sinne, yet being ouercome by the death of one,
that dyed for al, it is now made (as Chaucer
sayth) the grene path way to lyfe So that it
agreeth wen with that was sayd, that Death
byteth not (that is) hurteth not at all