v. 296. Melanchates, that hounde, &c.] See the story of Actæon in Ovid’s Metam.;
“Prima Melanchætes in tergo vulnera fecit.” iii. 232.
v. 305.
That his owne lord bote,
Myght byte asondre thy throte!]
—bote, i. e. bit.—So in Syr Tryamoure;
“He toke the stuarde by the throte,
And asonder he it botte.”
Early Pop. Poetry (by Utterson), i. 28.
v. 307. grypes] i. e. griffins.