[51.] Whose yeelded pride, etc., object of had marked, l. 52.
[77.] he kept both watch and ward, he kept awake and guarded her.
[89.] A damzell spyde, Abessa, who symbolizes Flagrant or Secret Sin.
[99.] her cast in deadly hew, threw her into a deathly paleness.
[101.] upon the wager lay, was at stake.
[102.] whereas her mother blynd, where her blind mother, Corceca, or Blind Devotion.
[109.] unruly Page. This refers to the violence with which Henry VIII forced Protestantism upon the people. In his Present State of Ireland (p. 645), Spenser speaks of the ignorance and blind devotion of the Irish Papists in the benighted country places.
[116.] Pater nosters, the Lord's Prayer; Aves, prayers to the Virgin.
[136.] Aldeboran, the Bull's Eye, a double star of the first magnitude in the constellation Taurus.
[137.] Cassiopeias chaire, a circumpolar constellation having a fancied resemblance to a chair.