astrofelt, astrophelt

[Found only in Spenser as quoted. It is in the first instance appar. a manipulated form of asphodel ( affodil, daffodil ) simulating L. astrum, a star, and fel, gall ('bitter'). In the second instance the name is profe edly taken from " Astrophel " (Sir Philip Sidney), the subject of the elegy of that name and of another elegy (by Matthew Roydon) printed with it; in the latter also written As trophill ("Our A strop hill did Stella love"), as if li 357 theory of the creation or evolution of the celestial bodies; stellar cosmogony. H. Spen cer. Also astrogony.