“Of deepe ymaginations And straunge interpretations, Problemes and demaundes eke His wisedom was to finde and seke, Whereof he wolde in sondry wise Opposen hem, that weren wise; But none of hem it mighte here Upon his word to give answere.”

But nearly all agree, I believe, in construing the strange words into a cry of alarm or warning to Lucifer, that his realm is invaded by some unusual apparition.

Of all the interpretations given, the most amusing is that of Benvenuto Cellini, in his description of the Court of Justice in Paris, Roscoe’s Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini , Chap. XXII :⁠—