[E408] Janus, an old Italian deity, the god of the sun and the year, to whom the month of January was dedicated.
[E409] Ver = Spring, Æstas = Summer, Hyems = Winter.
[E410] "Delaide;" so in Spenser, Faery Queene, ix. 30. "But to delay the heat," and in Prothalamium 3:
"Zephyrus did softly play
A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay
Hot Titan's beames."
[E411] Alluding to the thirteen revolutions of the moon in the year.
[E412] It appears from the Books of the Stationers' Company, on the authority of Warton (Hist. of Eng. Poetry, vol. iii. p. 428) that a licence was granted to T. Hackett, in the year 1562, to print "A Dialogue of Wyvynge and Thryvynge of Tusshers with ij lessons for olde and yonge."
[E413] "Bolted out," a term taken from the language and usage of millers, who use the word "to bolt" of the separation of the bran from the flour. Cf. Chaucer, Nonnes Prior's Tale, 415:
"But yit I can not bult it to the bren."
And Spenser, Faery Queene, iv. 24:
"He now had boulted all the floure."