[328]. 'Then you have fished to some purpose;' ironical. To fish fair is to catch many fish.
[329]. What mende ye, what do you gain, though we both lose?
[344]. Gems were supposed to have hidden virtues.
[387]. fele, find out, investigate.
[391, 2]. Cf. Ovid, Art. Amat. ii. 107: 'Ut ameris, amabilis esto.'
[393]. In the same, 113, we find: 'Forma bonum fragile est,' &c.
[396]. 'Go and love; for, when old, no one will have you.'
[398]. 'I am warned too late, when it has past away, quoth Beauty.'
[400]. The 'king's fool' got the hint from Ovid, Art. Amat. ii. 118: 'Iam uenient rugae,' &c.
[403]. crowes feet, crow's feet; wrinkles at the corners of the eyes; from the shape. So in Spenser, Shep. Kal. December, 136: 'And by myne eie the crow his clawe doth write.'