f the ancient Greeks, and Juno was
his wife.

[440-20] _Bosky_ means _wooded_.

[440-21] _Unshrubbed downs_ are tracts of land on which no bushes grow.

[440-22] Venus was the Greek goddess of love and beauty.

[440-23] _Dis_ is another name for Pluto, who according to the Greek
mythology ruled in the dismal lower world.

[440-24] By the aid of Venus, Pluto stole Proserpina, the daughter of
Ceres and Jupiter, and carried her away to be his queen in Hades.

[440-25] Her _blind boy_ is Cupid, the mischievous little god of love.

[440-26] Paphos was a city in Cyprus, where Venus loved to live.

[440-27] Juno's walk was very stately and dignified.

[440-28] Juno was a large, noble, motherly-looking woman, who is
represented in art as attended by the nymphs and the hours, as well as
by Iris. The goose and the cuckoo were as much Juno's birds as the
peacock. She was the protectress of young married people and infants,
and so was worshipped especially by women.

[441-29] _Foison_ and _plenty_ mean about the same thing. The phrase
might be read, _overflowing plenty_, a great plenty.

[441-30] This means, may a new spring come as soon as you have gathered
the harvest of the old one. May there be no winter in your lives.

[441-31] Ferdinand is still amazed, and inquires if they are really
spirits that he sees.

[442-32] _So rare a wonder'd father_ means, _so rarely wonderful a
father_.

[442-33] _Crisp_ means _curled_, alluding to the wavelets that the
breezes make on the surface of the water.

[442-34] The _sicklemen_ are reapers called from the harvest fields to
make merry.

[443-35] _Avoid_ means _begone_.

[443-36] The thin fleecy clouds, highest in the sky, were called _rack_.

[443-37] _On_ is here used for _of_.

[443-38] We would say _rounded off_ or _finished_.

[444-39] _I thank ye_ is spoken to Ferdinand and Miranda, and is
Prospero's reply to their good wishes.

[444-40] _Meet with_ means _oppose_ or _counteract_.

[444-41] _For breathing_ means _because it breathed_. In the next line,
_for kissing_ means _because it kissed_.

[444-42] _Unback'd_ means _unridden_.

[444-43] _Advanced_ means _raised_.

[445-44] The pool was mantled, or covered over, with filth.

[445-45] For _that_ read _so that_ or _insomuch that_.

[445-46] _Stale_ means _bait_. It was a term used by hunters for a bait
that would lure birds.

[445-47] Caliban.

[445-48] _Nurture_ can never stick on his _nature_: t