v. 1032. _ennew_] See note on v. 775. p. 144.
v. 1035. _lusty_] i. e. pleasant, beautiful.
—— _ruddes_] i. e. ruddy tints of the cheek, complexion.
Page 83. v. 1048. _with fauour fret_]—_fauour_, i. e. beauty; so Skelton has “feturs _fauorable_,” in the second of his _Balettys_, v. 8, vol. i. 23: _fret_, I believe, does not here mean fraught (see Tyrwhitt’s _Gloss._ to Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_), but is equivalent to—wrought, adorned,—in allusion to fret-work; so in our author’s _Garlande of Laurell_,—
“_Fret_ all with orient perlys of Garnate.”
_The columbine commendable,_ _The ielofer amyable_]
_Ielofer_ is perhaps what we now call gillyflower; but it was formerly the name for the whole class of carnations, pinks, and sweetwilliams. So Graunde Amoure terms La Bell Pucell;
“The gentyll _gyllofer_ the goodly _columbyne_.”
Hawes’s _Pastime of pleasure_, sig. N i. ed. 1555.
v. 1069. _conuenyently_] i. e. fittingly, suitably.
Page 84. v. 1077. _sker_] i. e. scar: see v. 1045.
v. 1078. _Enhached_] i. e. Inlaid: our author has the word again in his _Garlande of Laurell_;
“_Enhachyde_ with perle and stones preciously.”
v. 1081. _To forget deadly syn_] Compare the first of our author’s _Balettys_, v. 11. vol. i. 22.
v. 1097. _So sad and so demure_]—_sad_, i. e. serious, grave, sober: so afterwards, “_Sobre_, demure Dyane.” v. 1224.
v. 1100. _make to the lure_] A metaphor from falconry: “_Lure_ is that whereto Faulconers call their young Hawks, by casting it up in the aire, being made of feathers and leather, in such wise that in the motion it looks not unlike a fowl.” Latham’s _Faulconry_ (_Explan. of Words of Art_), 1658.
Page 85. v. 1105. _crased_] i. e. crushed, enfeebled.
_And to amende her tale,_ _Whan she lyst to auale_]
—_auale_ is generally—to let down, to lower: but I know not how to explain the present passage, which appears to be defective.
_And with her fyngers smale,_ _And handes soft as sylke,_ _Whyter than the mylke,_ _That are so quyckely vayned_]
—_quyckely vayned_, i. e. lively veined. Compare Hawes;
“By her propre _hande, soft as any sylke_.”
_The Pastime of pleasure_, sig. H iiii. ed. 1555.
“_Her fingers small_, and therto right longe, _White as the milke, with blew vaynes_ among.”