21. In Pisces, Venus was said to be at her exaltation or greatest power. A planet, according to the old astrologers, was in “exaltation” when in the sign of the Zodiac in which it exerted its strongest influence; the opposite sign, in which it was weakest, was called its “dejection.”
22. Launcelot: Arthur’s famous knight, so accomplished and courtly, that he was held the very pink of chivalry.
23. Trill: turn; akin to “thirl”, “drill.”
24. Ride: another reading is “bide,” alight or remain.
25. Feastying: entertaining; French, “festoyer,” to feast.
26. The old physicians held that blood dominated in the human body late at night and in the early morning. Galen says that the domination lasts for seven hours.
27. Fumosity: fumes of wine rising from the stomach to the head.
28. Fremde: foreign, strange; German, “fremd” in the northern dialects, “frem,” or “fremmed,” is used in the same sense.
29. Leden: Language, dialect; from Anglo-Saxon, “leden” or “laeden,” a corruption from “Latin.”
30. Tercelet: the “tassel,” or male of any species of hawk; so called, according to Cotgrave, because he is one third (“tiers”) smaller than the female.