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Bestadde) disposed, ordered. Pergall) equall. Whilome) once. Rafte) bereft, depriued. Miswent) gon astraye Ill may) according
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In felix o semper ouis
pecus.
A mazer) So also do Theocritus and Virgile feigne pledges of their strife.
Enchased) engrauen. Such pretie descriptions euery where vseth Theocritus,
to bring in his Idyllia. For which speciall cause indede he by that
name termeth his Æglogues: for Idyllion in Greke signifieth the shape
or picture of any thing, whereof his booke is ful. And not, as I haue
heard some fondly guesse, that they be called not Idyllia, but
Haedilia, of the Goteherds in them.
Entrailed) wrought betwene.
Haruest Queene) The manner of country folke in haruest tyme. Pousse.) Pease.
It fell vpon) Perigot maketh hys song in prayse of his loue, to whom Willy
answereth euery vnder verse. By Perigot who is meant, I can not
vprightly say: but if it be, who is supposed, his love deserueth no
lesse prayse, then he giueth her.
Greete) weeping and complaint. Chaplet) a kind of Garlond lyke a crowne.
Leuen) Lightning. Cynthia) was sayd to be the Moone. Gryde) perced.
But if) not vnlesse. Squint eye) partiall iudgement. Ech haue) so saith
Virgile. Et vitula tu dignus, et hic
&c.
So by enterchaunge of
gyfts Cuddie pleaseth both partes.
Doome) iudgement. Dempt) for deemed, iudged. Wite the witelesse) blame
the blamelesse. The shapherd of Ida) was sayd to be Paris.
Beauties Queene) Venus, to whome Paris adiudged the golden Apple, as the
pryce of her beautie.
Embleme.
The meaning hereof is very ambiguous: for Perigot by his poesie claiming
the conquest, & Willye not yeelding, Cuddie the arbiter of theyr cause,
and Patron of his own, semeth to chalenge it, as his dew, saying, that
he, is happy which can, so abruply ending but hee meaneth eyther him,
that can win the beste, or moderate him selfe being best, and leaue of
with the best.
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