[91], [57]. her . . . liver. A double allusion, as Dilke has pointed out, to the story of Prometheus, and to the conception of the liver as the seat of the emotions.
[92], [77]. with a traine: by a stratagem.
[93], [84]. gushing. Used here transitively, qualifying laws, and governing blood.
[93], [87]. bare . . . hammes: the uncovered heads and cringing postures of sycophants.
[93], [98]. Armenian dragons. Chapman is fond of locating fabulous monsters in Armenia. Cf. [ii, 1, 118-19].
[94], [115]. almighty Æther. Probably a reminiscence of Virgil, Georg. 2, 325, pater omnipotens Æther.
[94], [120]. Nay, they are two. Monsieur, while saying this, makes two horns with his fingers.
[95], [126]. a meere Cynthia: a perfect moon-goddess.
[96], [138]. The plague of Herod. Cf. Acts xii, 23, "And he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost."