46.”Reheating” is read by preference for “richesse,” which
stands in the older printed editions; though “richesse” certainly
better represents the word used in the original of Boccaccio —
“dovizia,” meaning abundance or wealth.
47. “Depart it so, for widewhere is wist
How that there is diversity requer’d
Betwixte thinges like, as I have lear’d:”
i.e. make this distinction, for it is universally known that there is
a great difference between things that seem the same, as I have
learned.
48. Frepe: the set, or company; French, “frappe,” a stamp (on
coins), a set (of moulds).
49. To be “in the wind” of noisy magpies, or other birds that
might spoil sport by alarming the game, was not less desirable
than to be on the “lee-side” of the game itself, that the hunter’s
presence might not be betrayed by the scent. “In the wind of,”
thus signifies not to windward of, but to leeward of — that is, in
the wind that comes from the object of pursuit.
50. Bothe fremd and tame: both foes and friends — literally,
both wild and tame, the sporting metaphor being sustained.
51. The lovers are supposed to say, that nothing is wanting but
to know the time at which they should meet.