name -- Italian, "Vernaccia" -- seems to be derived from
Verona.

15. Dan Constantine: a medical author who wrote about 1080;
his works were printed at Basle in 1536.

16. Full of jargon as a flecked pie: he chattered like a magpie

17. Nearly all the manuscripts read "in two of Taure;" but
Tyrwhitt has shown that, setting out from the second degree of
Taurus, the moon, which in the four complete days that Maius
spent in her chamber could not have advanced more than fifty-
three degrees, would only have been at the twenty-fifth degree
of Gemini -- whereas, by reading "ten," she is brought to the
third degree of Cancer.

18. Kid; or "kidde," past participle of "kythe" or "kithe," to
show or discover.

19. Precious: precise, over-nice; French, "precieux," affected.

20. Proined: or "pruned;" carefully trimmed and dressed
himself. The word is used in falconry of a hawk when she picks
and trims her feathers.

21. A dogge for the bow: a dog attending a hunter with the
bow.

22 The Romance of the Rose: a very popular mediaeval
romance, the English version of which is partly by Chaucer. It