v. 42. Heat and cold.] Cold from the snow, and heat from the reflection of the sun.
v. 45. Yoke.] Vellutello understands this of the vicinity of the mountain to Nocera and Gualdo; and Venturi (as I have taken it) of the heavy impositions laid on those places by the Perugians. For GIOGO, like the Latin JUGUM, will admit of either sense.
v. 50. The east.]
This is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Shakespeare.
v. 55. Gainst his father’s will.] In opposition to the wishes of his natural father
v. 58. In his father’s sight.] The spiritual father, or bishop, in whose presence he made a profession of poverty.
v. 60. Her first husband.] Christ.
v. 63. Amyclas.] Lucan makes Caesar exclaim, on witnessing the secure poverty of the fisherman Amyclas:
—O vite tuta facultas
Pauperis, angustique lares! O munera nondum
Intellecta deum! quibus hoc contingere templis,
Aut potuit muris, nullo trepidare tumultu,
Caesarea pulsante manu?
Lucan Phars. 1. v. 531.
v. 72. Bernard.] One of the first followers of the saint.