sad > heavy; dark, deep; dismal Night > (The pre-Olympian goddess, Nox; she features in person at 105.20 ff.)
101.40
Whose double gates he findeth locked fast,
2 The one faire fram'd of burnisht Yuory,
The other all with siluer ouercast;
4 And wakefull dogges before them farre do lye,
Watching to banish Care their enimy,
6 Who oft is wont to trouble gentle +Sleepe+.
By them the Sprite doth passe in quietly,
8 And vnto Morpheus comes, whom drowned deepe
In drowsie fit he findes: of nothing he takes keepe.
6 Sleepe > sleepe 1596; sleep 1609
1 Whose double gates he finds locked fast,
double gates > (The two Gates of Sleep (Odyssey 19.562-7; Aen. 6.893-6). True dreams pass through the gate of horn, while false dreams pass through the gate of ivory) fast > firmly
2 One fair framed of burnished ivory,
framed > made, fashioned
3 The other all with silver overcast;
overcast > covered, overlaid