1105 ([return])
[ Two hands.—Ver. 496. He means, that the writing of the lover must be quite erased before she pens her answer on the same tablets.]


1106 ([return])
[ Hence, avaunt.—Ver. 505. See the Fasti, Book vi. 1. 696. * Laying aside his foils.—Ver. 515. The 'rudis' was a stick, which soldiers and persons exercising used in mimic combat, probably like our foil or singlestick.]


1107 ([return])
[ With Tecmessa.—Ver. 517. She was taken captive by Ajax, and probably had good reason to be sorrowful.]


1108 ([return])
[ The twig of vine.—Ver. 527. He alludes to the Centurions, who had the power of inflicting corporal punishment, from which circumstance their badge of office was a vine sapling.]