v. 307. ouerthwhart] i. e. cross, perverse, adverse.
v. 310. Sith] i. e. Since.
v. 314. gresse] i. e. grass. This stanza is also imitated from Ovid, Met. i. 521.
v. 315. axes] See note, p. 100. v. 9.
v. 317. raist] i. e. arrayest: see note on title of poem, p. 197.
v. 318. But sith I haue lost, &c.] Again from Ovid, Met. i. 557.
v. 324. poetis laureat, &c.] It must be remembered that formerly a poet laureat meant a person who had taken a degree in grammar, including rhetoric and versification: and that the word poet was applied to a writer of prose as well as of verse; “Poet a connyng man.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. lv. (Table of Subst.).
“And poetes to preoven hit. Porfirie and Plato
Aristotle, Ovidius,” &c.
Peirs Plouhman, p. 210. ed. Whit.