If Arethusa wyll send
Me enfluence to endyte]
Skelton recollected that Virgil had invoked this nymph as a Muse;
“Extremum hunc, Arethusa, mihi concede laborem.”
Ecl. x. 1.
v. 869. lust] i. e. pleasure.
v. 872. enbybed] i. e. made wet.
v. 873. aureat] i. e. golden.
v. 875. Thagus] i. e. Tagus.
Page 78. v. 882. remes] i. e. realms.