v. 14. lusty somer] i. e. pleasant summer.
v. 16. ruddys] i. e. ruddy tints of the cheek, complexion.
v. 17. Saphyre of sadnes]—sadnes, i. e. steadiness, constancy:
“For hit is write and seide how the safere
Doth token trowthe.”
Poems by C. Duke of Orleans,—MS. Harl. 682. fol. 44.
—— enuayned with indy blew] enuayned, i. e. enveined. “Inde. Fr., Azure-coloured.” Tyrwhitt’s Gloss. to Chaucer’s Cant. Tales. “Inde, ynde: couleur de bleu foncé, d’azur, indicum.” Roquefort’s Gloss. de la Lang. Rom. So again our author in his Magnyfycence;
“The streynes of her vaynes as asure inde blewe.”
v. 1571. vol. i. 276.