147. The descriptions of allegorical personages in this poem are clearly
imitated from similar descriptions in Latin poets. Compare the celebrated
description of Envy in Ovid, Metam. ii. 775, and the like. MS. G. absurdly
reads _a hate_ for _Hate_.
149. The reading must, of course, be _moveresse_, as in the Fr. text;
Speght corrected it in 1598; it means a mover or stirrer up of strife.