[150] i.e. as a whole (tutto insieme).
[151] Sollecitudine. The commentators will have it that this is an error for solitudine, solitude, but I see no necessity for the substitution, the text being perfectly acceptable as it stands.
[152] Hortyard (orto) is the old form of orchard, properly an enclosed tract of land in which fruit, vegetables and potherbs are cultivated for use, i.e. the modern kitchen garden and orchard in one, as distinguished from the pleasaunce or flower garden (giardino).
[153] Giardino, i.e. flower-garden.
[154] Lit. broke the string of.
[155] Boccaccio calls her Teudelinga; but I know of no authority for this form of the name of the famous Longobardian queen.
[156] Referring apparently to the adventure related in the present story.
[157] Lit. with high (i.e. worthy) cause (con alta cagione).
[158] Lit. (riscaldare gli orecchi).
[159] i.e. three a.m. next morning.