mmm, thanks for the reminder that not *all the world is looking forward to a season of mess and smelly foolishness, Max! I like your selected poem.

Dian as a contraction of Diana, the huntress

Yes, that was my take - as in the myth about her being seen bathing... so a kind of extended metaphor for his remark about "chaste", which I think is also punning on 'chased' and perhaps 'chasseur', hence his words "without joking..."!