133. April, Cf. M, ofV, ii. 9. 93 :

*'A day in April never came so sweet.
To show how costly summer was at hand/* etc.
Elsewhere the metaphor is drawn from the rainy April ; as in A. andC,
iii. 2. 43 : " The April 's in her eyes," etc

134. May, Cf. Z. Z. Z. iv. 3. 102 ; " Love, whose month is ever May,"
etc.
136. A Barbary cock-pigeon, C£ 2 Hen, IV. ii. 4. 108 : " a Barbary
hen."

137. Against, Before, in expectation of (Schmidt) ; as in Rich, II, iii.
4. 28, etc.
For new-fangled^ cf. Sonn, 91. 3 and Z. Z. Z. i. 1. 106. Fangied—^vtn
to finery, occurs in Cymb, v. 4. 134. Nares gives examples oi fangle=
trifle or toy, from Gay ton, Fest, Notes (" What fangle now thy thronged
guests to winne ") and Wood, Athence (" a hatred to fangles and the
French fooleries of his time ") ; and Todd (Johnson's Diet.) adds from
Greene, Mamillia : " There was no feather, no fangle, jem, nor Jewel."

139. Diana in the fountain. Malone thought this an allusion to the
cross in Cheapside, the religious images of which were defaced in 1596.
