In this Æglogue two Shepheards' Boys, taking occasion of the season,
begin to make purpose of love, and other pleasance which to springtime
is most agreeable. The special meaning hereof is, to give certain marks
and tokens, to know Cupid the poets' god of Love. But more particularly,
I think, in the person of Thomalin, is meant some secret friend, who
scorned Love and his knights so long, till at length himself was
entangled, and unwares wounded with the dart of some beautiful regard,
which is Cupid's arrow.