[120.] Stories in which more is meant than meets the ear refer to allegories, like the Fairy Queen.
[121.] Having thus filled the night with the occupations that he loves, Il Penseroso now greets the morning, which he hopes to find stormy with wind and rain.
[122. civil-suited Morn:] i.e. Morn in the everyday habiliments of business.
[123-124.] Eos—Aurora, the Dawn—carried off several youths distinguished for their beauty. the Attic boy is probably Cephalus, whom she stole from his wife Procris.
[125. kerchieft in a comely cloud.] Kerchief is here used in its original and proper sense. Look up its origin.
[126.] The winds may be called rocking because they visibly rock the trees, or because they shake houses.
[127. Or ushered with a shower still.] The shower falls gently, without wind.
[130. With minute-drops from off the eaves.] After the rain has ceased, and while the thatch is draining, the drops fall at regular intervals for a time,—as it were, a drop every minute. Il Penseroso listens with contentment to the wind, the rustling rain-fall on the leaves, and the monotonous patter of the drops when the rain is over.
[131.] The shower is past, and the sun appears, but Il Penseroso finds its beams flaring and distasteful. He seeks covert in the dense groves.
[134. Sylvan] is the god of the woods.