e _Pegasus_, that flitteth in the ayre.

2 hight, > hight. _1596_
6 He > Her _1596, 1609_
8 snaky > snaly _1596_

1 He loved eke Iphimedia dear,

eke > also
Iphimedia > (Wife of Aloeus, the mother by Neptune of Otus and
Ephialtes, the two Aloidae)

2 And Aeolus' fair daughter, Arne hight,

Aeolus > (Son of Hellen and the nymph Orse{i"}s, the ruler of Thessaly.
Sisyphus was also among his many children. The god of the winds,
also called Aeolus, is the son of Arne and Neptune)
hight > named

3 For whom he turned himself into a steer,
4 And fed on fodder, to beguile her sight.
5 Also, to win Deucalion's daughter bright,

Deucalion > (Son of Prometheus and Clymene. Like Noah, he was the
floating survivor of a flood sent by the supreme deity to destroy
degenerate mankind. See _Met._ 6.116-20)
bright > beautiful

6 He turned himself into a dolphin fair;
7 And like a winged horse he took his flight,
8 To snaky-locked Medusa to repair,

snaky-locked > (She only became thus after she and Neptune had
desecrated one of Minerva's temples by this union: see 309.22:8)
Medusa > (The only mortal among the three sisters who comprised the
Gorgons; before her metamorphosis she was a beautiful maiden)
repair > go, betake himself

9 On whom he got fair Pegasus, that flits in the air.

Pegasus > (The winged horse sprang from the blood of Medusa when her
head was cut off by Perseus)

311.43

Next _Saturne_ was, (but who would euer weene,
2 That sullein _Saturne_ euer weend to loue?
Yet loue is sullein, and _Saturnlike_ seene,
4 As he did for +_Erigone_+ it +proue,+)
That to a _Centaure_ did him selfe transmoue.
6 So proou'd it eke that gracious God of wine,
When for to compasse +_Philliras_+ hard loue,
8 He turnd himselfe into a fruitfull vine,
And into her faire bosome made his grapes decline.

4 _Erigone_ > _Philliras sugg. Upton_
4 proue, > proue. _1596_
7 _Philliras_ > _Erigone sugg. Upton, since the two legends are
confused. See _Met._ 6.125-6 and Hyginus, _Fabulae_ 138_

1 Next Saturn was (but who would ever ween

Next > Immediately after
Saturn > (Son of Heaven (Uranus) and Earth (Ge); identified with
Cronos of the Greeks: he is hence the father of Jupiter, Neptune,
Pluto, Juno, etc. He deprived Uranus of the government of the
world, and was in turn dethroned by Jupiter. See _Met._ 6.126)
ween > imagine

2 That sullen Saturn ever weened to