[189.] Pegasus, the winged horse of the Muses. For note on the false possessive with his, see note on V, [44].
[233.] had not greater grace, etc., had not greater grace (than was granted my comrade) saved me from it, I should have been partaker (with him of his doom) in that place.
[249.] after faire areedes, afterwards graciously tells.
[267.] with dying feare, with fear of dying.
[269.] Whose like infirmitie, etc., i.e. if you are a victim of love, you may also fall into the hands of despair.
[270.] But God you never let, but may God never let you, etc.
[272.] to spoyle the Castle of his health, to take his own life. Cf. Eliot's Castell of Helthe, published in 1534.
[273.] I wote, etc. I, whom recent trial hath taught, and who would not (endure the) like for all the wealth of this world, know (how a man may be so gained over to destroy himself).
[275.] This simile is a very old one. See Homer's Iliad, i, 249; Odyssey, xviii, 283; Song of Solomon, iv, 11; and Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, ii, 51.
[286.] for gold nor glee. Cf. for love or money.