Surrey,
And my Lord of Shrewsbury,
The Duke of Suffolk might have made England merry."

P. 10, l. 10.--_Eughes._] Yews.

P. 10, l. 15.--_Ladon._] A river in Arcadia.

P. 11, l. 2.--_Syrinx._] An Arcadian nymph, who, flying from Pan, was
turned into a reed, which was afterwards made into a pipe by the
pursuer.

P. 11, l. 24.--_Prickets._] Bucks of the second year.

P. 12, l. 10.--_Spyke._] Lavender.

P. 12, l. 11.--_The scarlet dyde carnation bleeding yet._] The idea of a
bleeding flower gives additional grace to one of the most beautiful
passages in Shakespeare.--

"Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell;
It fell upon a little western flower,
Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound."

P. 12, l. 13.--_Good for the blinde._] According to Gerard, p. 537,
"eiebright stamped and laid upon the eies, or the juice thereof, mixed
with white wine, and dropped into the eies, or the destilled water,
taketh awaie the darknesse and dimnesse of the eies, and cleereth the
sight."

P. 12, l. 18.--_Sops in wine._] Pinks.

P. 12, l. 19.--_Bootes._] The marsh marigold. According to Gerard, p.
671, this name for the plant was current only "in Cheshire and those
parts."

P. 13, l. 2.--_Tyce._] To entice.

P. 15, l. 6.--_The christall fountaines._]

"Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams."

_Midsummer Night's Dream_, iii. 2.

P. 16, l. 24.--_Boult._] A short thick arrow.

P. 16, l. 24.--_Thrustle-cocke._] The male thrush.

P. 16, l. 25.--_Afforde._] "Afford's," orig.

P. 17, l. 6.--_Grype._] A griffin.

P. 17, l. 13.--_Oozels._] Blackbirds. See p. 24.

P. 18, l. 3.--_As white as whale._]

"This is the flower that smiles on every one,
That show his teeth _as white as whales bone_."

_Love's Labour's Lost_, v. ii.

P. 20, l. 12.--_My lovely faire._] Compare the Midsummer Night's Dream,
i. 1.--

----"O, happy fair!
Your eyes are lode-stars."

P. 22, l. 3.--_Fautors._] Abetters, supporters.

P. 25, l. 1.--_When huntsmen, &c._]

----"imitatus castora, qui se
Eunuchum ipse facit, cupiens evadere damno
Testiculorum."

_Juvenal_, xii. 84.

P. 27, l. 1.--_White is the colour._] This stanza seems to have been
imitated in "Greenes Funeralls," 4to. London, 1594. See the "First
Sketches of Henry VI," Introduction, p. xxiii.

P. 30, l. 4.--_Knife._] So in the original, but probably a mistake for
swords.

P. 30, l. 8.--_Glaver._] T