v. 204. herte] i. e. heart.

v. 206. Asmodeus] The name of the evil spirit in the Book of Tobit.

v. 208. Dalyda] i. e. Dalilah.

“Unto his lemman Dalida he told,

That in his heres all his strengthe lay.”

Chaucer’s Monkes Tale, v. 14069. ed. Tyr.

See too Gower’s Conf. Am., Lib. viii. fol. clxxxix. ed. 1554, and Lydgate’s Fall of Prynces, B. i. leaf xxxiii. ed. Wayland.

[Page 33.] v. 208. mell] i. e. meddle (in sensu obsc.).

v. 212. Simonia] i. e. Simony.