l. [296]. affrayed, frightened. Cf. l. [198].

[Page 100]. ll. [298-9]. Cf. Donne's poem, The Dream:—

My dream thou brokest not, but continued'st it.

l. [300]. painful change, his paleness.

l. [311]. pallid, chill, and drear. Cf. ll. [12], [112], [187], [258].

[Page 101]. l. [323]. Love's alarum, warning them to speed away.

l. [325]. flaw, gust of wind. Cf. Coriolanus, v. iii. 74; Hamlet, v. i. 239.

l. [333]. unpruned, not trimmed.

[Page 102]. l. [343]. elfin-storm. The beldame has suggested that he must be 'liege-lord of all the elves and fays'.

l. [351]. o'er . . . moors. A happy suggestion of a warmer clime.