v. 566. morning gounes] i. e. mourning-gowns.
v. 567. The hobby] “Of all birdes of prey that belong to the Falconers vse, I know none lesse then the Hobby, unles it be the Merlyn.” Turbervile’s Booke of Falconrie, &c. p. 53. ed. 1611.
—— the muskette] i. e. the male sparrow-hawk. “You must note, that all these kind of hawkes haue their male birdes and cockes of euerie sort and gender, as the Eagle his Earne ... and the Sparrow-hawke his Musket.” Id. p. 3. “The male sparrow hawke is called a musket.” The Countrie Farme, p. 877. ed. 1600.
v. 568. sensers] i. e. censers.
—— fet] i. e. fetch.
v. 569. The kestrell] A sort of base-bred hawk.
—— warke] i. e. work, business.
v. 570. holy water clarke] See note, p. 94. v. 21.
Page 69. v. 590. And wrapt in a maidenes smocke] Spenser seems to have recollected this passage: he says, that when Cupid was stung by a bee, Venus
—— “tooke him streight full pitiously lamenting,