42. This reference to Love, as controlling the universe, is borrowed from Boeth. bk. ii. met. 8.
47. Read werne (refuse) and wol (will); 'yet all things desire that you should refuse help to no one who is willing to do as you direct him.'
56. every thing in coming, every future thing. contingent, of uncertain occurrence; the earliest known quotation for this use of the word in English.
61-2. many let-games; repeated from above, ch. iii. ll. 124-8. thy moeble; from the same, ll. 131-2.
64. by the first, with reference to your first question; so also by that other, with reference to your second question, in l. 71.
Chap. V. 8. Acrisius shut his daughter Danaë up in a tower, to keep her safe; nevertheless she became the mother of Perseus, who afterwards killed Acrisius accidentally.
14. entremellen, intermingle hearts after merely seeing each other.
16. beestes, animals, beings; not used contemptuously; equivalent to living people in ll. 17, 18.
20. esployte, success, achievement; see Exploit in the New E. Dict.
29. Supply don; 'and I will cause him to come to bliss, as being one of my own servants.'