88 1 sisters Muses 3 gracejutt* conferring grace, honour 4 greatest Spenser dedicated The Faerie Queene to Queen Elizabeth I 5 layes songs 11 dreriment dismal state: the opposite, perhaps, of ‘merriment’ 13 girland a garland, wreath of flowers 16 bride Eurydice 22 lusty hed lustihead, pleasure, delight

88 26 maske pageant, procession 27 Tead tede, wood-torch flake flash, spark 30 dight dress 40 wel beseene well provided for, furnished; seen to look well 45 poses posies, bunches of flowers 51 diapred* strewn in a diaper pattern discolored differently coloured

88 56 Mulla Spenser’s name for the river Awbeg which flowed through his estate at Kilcolman in Ireland 60 rushy full of, covered by, rushes 68 hoary covered in trees, scrub towre tower, rise up high 81 Mavis song thrush 82 Ouzell blackbird Ruddock robin 86 meeter more fitting, appropriate 87 make mate

88 88 lovelearned* 103 handmayds the Graces Queene Aphrodite 118 lifull lifeful, life-giving fervent hot, burning 119 sunshyny bright as with sunshine

88 124 boone favour, request 129 shrill* utter in shrill tones 131 Croud fiddle 132 agree keep harmony 134 tymbrels tambourines 138 confused mixed, blended 140 io(Greek) hurra! ho! 144 approvance approval 145 laud praise 148 portly stately, dignified 151 seemes becomes, befits

88 155 perling*… tweene forming flowers between, made out of pearls 165 ye the ‘gazers’ of 1.160 173 rudded made ruddy 175 uncrudded* uncurdled, fresh

88 189 red saw 190 mazeful* bewildering, confounding

88 227 vermill vermeil, red 228 dyde in grayne fast dyed, dyed thoroughly 234 sad solemn, serious 237 unsownd* not soundly based in reasoning or fact (?); immodest 239 band bond 245 joyance merrymaking, festivities

88 266 see the textual note 269 the sun moves out of Cancer into Leo in mid-June 282 Planet the sun 285 gloome* grow dark 286 star Venus

88 294 many crowd, company 296 forepast previously passed 299 boures bowers, chambers, bedrooms 303 display unfold, spread out 304 odourd scented Arras tapestry from the French town of Arras 313 leave cease, stop 316 defray pay for

88 326 quietsome* quiet 329 Tirynthian groome Hercules 330 thy selfe Night 331 Majesty the product of the union of Jove and Night seems to derive from Spenser’s own imagination 341 Pouke Puck, Robin Goodfellow, a hobgoblin 344 Fray frighten 356 poure spread

88 361 stealthes thefts 364 sonnes of Venus Cupids 378 unthought* not regarded, unremembered 380 Latmian shephard Endymion 384 generation begetting of children enlarge increase 385 wishfull longed-for, desired 388 hopefull hap wished-for event

88 391 patronize* act as a patron saint, tutelary deity 392 plight plighted, pledged 395 smart pain 398 Genius the god of generation 399 geniall nuptial, generative 411 clods* bodies 414 fayne imagine 421 guerdon reward

88 428 duly rightly, properly 429 cutting off preventing, cutting short accidents events; misfortunes 430 Ye the poem stay remain; delay 431 both his bride and the poem, or time