is worthy the most undoubted poet.
3844 'dell' is not unlike Whiting, but, of course, 'cell' suggests itself.
3845 'repell' = repeal.
3871 Apella] Credat Iudaeus.
3874 Not 'saw double' but 'had the use of his eyes'.
3892 Orig. 'tuffe'. Was Whiting reminiscent of The Nun's Priest's Tale here? [Return]
3939 Perduer] Apparently 'a soldier who goes on a forlorn hope'.
made their eyes] = 'stared as hard as they could'. Whiting himself certainly 'makes his words perduers' in this sense.
3948 Orig. 'tispyde'.
3967 'Copester' (orig. 'coapster') here, and 'coped' ('coap't') in l. 4032, have nothing to do with the amorous sense in which the word has been formerly used. The signification is simply 'wearing a cope'.