[4] vampalt] i.e. A gauntlet, or iron glove.
[5] Atropos] One of the three sisters which are said to cut the thread of life.
[6] Catoblepa] The Catoblepa is a beast bred near the rise of Nile. See Pin, Nat. Hist.
[7] paven] i.e. A dance.
[8] A chasm being occasioned in this place, by the loss of some of the Author’s invaluable papers; it was excellently supplied, as follows, by Sir W. A.
[9] From hence the history is again continued out of the author’s Papers. If this little essay have not that perfection which is required for supplying the want of that place for which it was intended, yet shall it serve for a shadow to give a lustre to the rest. I have only herein conformed myself to that which preceded my beginning, and was known to be that admirable author’s own, but to differ in some things from that which follows, especially in the death of Philisides, making choice of a course, whereby I might best manifest, what affection I bear to the memory of him, whom I took to be alluded unto by that name, and whom I only by this imperfect parcel (designing more) had a mind to honour. W. A.
[10] The superscripted numbers in this song appear above the preceding word in the source text.—Transcriber.
BOOK V NOTES
[1] Knights of the Order] Of the Garter.