50 The talking and blushing turtle (i.e. dove) is another remarkable poetical licence.
77 Heat ad Octo] An obviously alchemical phrase which I have not interpreted.
100 in] Orig. 'inne' = 'get in'. Cf. All's Well that Ends Well, 1. iii, 'to in the crop'.
The Change.
El sabio muda conscio: El loco persevera.
We lov'd as friends now twenty years and more:
Is't time or reason, think you, to give o'er?
When, though two prenti'ships set Jacob free,
I have not held my Rachel dear at three.