104.22
In greene vine leaues he was right fitly clad;
2 For other clothes he could not weare for heat,
And on his head an yuie girland had,
4 From vnder which fast trickled downe the sweat:
Still as he rode, he somewhat still did eat,
6 And in his hand did beare a bouzing can,
Of which he supt so oft, that on his seat
8 His dronken corse he scarse vpholden can,
In shape and life more like a monster, then a man.
1 In green vine-leaves he was right fitly clad:
fitly > (Spenser's Gluttony recalls Silenus (Met. 4.26-7, 11.89- 99); Silenus was the foster-father of Bacchus, god of wine)
2 For other clothes he could not wear for heat, 3 And on his head an ivy garland had,
ivy > (Sacred to Bacchus)
4 From under which fast trickled down the sweat. 5 Still as he rode he somewhat still did eat,
Still > Continually somewhat > a little, something
6 And in his hand did bear a boozing can,
boozing > drinking