"The hunt is up, the hunt is up, &c.
The Masters of Art and Doctors of Divinity
Have brought this name out of good unity,
Three noblemen have this to stay,—
My lord of Norfolk, Lord of Surrey,
And my Lord of Shrewsbury,
The Duke of Suffolk might have made England merry."
P. [10], l. 10.—Eughes.] Yews.
P. [10], l. 15.—Ladon.] A river in Arcadia.
P. [11], l. 2.—Syrinx.] An Arcadian nymph, who, flying from Pan, was turned into a reed, which was afterwards made into a pipe by the pursuer.
P. [11], l. 24.—Prickets.] Bucks of the second year.
P. [12], l. 10.—Spyke.] Lavender.
P. [12], l. 11.—The scarlet dyde carnation bleeding yet.] The idea of a bleeding flower gives additional grace to one of the most beautiful passages in Shakespeare.—
"Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell;
It fell upon a little western flower,
Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound."
P. [12], l. 13.—Good for the blinde.] According to Gerard, p. 537, "eiebright stamped and laid upon the eies, or the juice thereof, mixed with white wine, and dropped into the eies, or the destilled water, taketh awaie the darknesse and dimnesse of the eies, and cleereth the sight."
P. [12], l. 18.—Sops in wine.] Pinks.