[175] Old ed. "Gorges."—I suppose there is an allusion, which must not be taken too literally, to the story of Candaules and Gyges (see Herodotus, lib. i. 8).
[176] This is the unintelligible reading of the old ed.—"This action, sure, breeds" &c., would be hardly satisfactory.
[177] Lucian tells a story of a youth who fell in love with Praxiteles' statue of Aphrodite: see Imagines, § 4. He tells the story more elaborately in his Amores.
[178] Concert.
[179] Old ed. "denie."
[180] Before this line the old ed. gives the prefix "Val." Perhaps a speech of Montano has dropped out.
[181] Old ed. "although no a kin."
[182] Old ed. "light fall soft." Probably the poet originally wrote "light," and afterwards wrote "fall" above as a correction (or "light" may have been caught by the printer's eye from the next line).
[183] Doorkeeper was a common term for a pander.
[184] Skin.