oracle to be devoured by a sea monster, and whom he gave to Telamon Ajax on being defrauded of his promised reward by her father Laomedon (Ovid, Met. xi. 211).
Footnote 477: Thelamon Ayaulx, H.
Footnote 478: _Sc._ through.
Footnote 479: Væ tibi, terra, cujus rex puer est, Vulg. (Eccles x. 16).
Footnote 480: Plus moleste, H.
Footnote 482: Et empires, H.
Footnote 483: Calchas was not a Trojan, but a son of Thestor of Mycenæ or Megara and the foremost soothsayer on the Greek side. Christine de Pisan or her authority seems to have misunderstood Dares Phrygius, ch. 15.
Footnote 484: _Sc._ Apollo; Apollin, H.
Footnote 485: _Sc._ subtle.
Footnote 486: 2 Tim. iii. 2, 4, with omissions.
Footnote 487: _Sc._ Hermaphroditus (Ovid, Met. iv. 285 sq).
Footnote 488: A Hermofrodicus te mire, H.
Footnote 489: The nymph of the well Salmacis; vne nimphe, H.
Footnote 490: A la fontaine de Salmacis, H.
Footnote 491: Lui prist talent de soy baigner, H.
Footnote 492: _Sc._ sexes; qui ii. sexes auoit, H.
Footnote 493: Darquemie, _sc._ alchemy, H.
Footnote 494: Ghadely, MS.
Footnote 495: Leurs ficcions, H.
Footnote 496: Men, MS.
Footnote 497: Isai. xxxv. 3.
Footnote 498: Yen (_sc._ eyes) of yowre, MS.
Footnote 499: Lenterine face, H. (enterin, _sc._ entier, complet, Godefroy, _s.v._).
Footnote 500: _Sc._ how much.
Footnote 501: La pouons nous veoir nostre bel, la pouons nous veoir nostre lait, la pouons nous veoir combien nous prouffitons et combien nous sommes loings de prouffiter, H.
Footnote 503: Gard toy Briseyda nacointier, H. The change is probably due to Footnote 504: Cointe et vague et attrayant, H.
Footnote 505: Of the, MS.
Footnote 506: _Sc._ wholly?; du tout, H.
Footnote 508: _Sc._ two.
Footnote 509: Or, MS. The passage is confused, _cf._ que tout homme qui a occis ou meffait au loyal compaignon dun autre que le compaignon en fera la vengence, H.
Footnote 510: Madarge, H.; Magdargis, Add. MS. 16,906, f. 55b; Macdarge, Roy. MS. 19 B. iv. f. 65. The “dit” as given by G. de Tignonville in the last-named MS. is “En quelque lieu que tu soyes auecques ton enmemi...fay touz iours bon guet; ia soit ce que tu soyes le plus fort et plus puissant, si doys tu trauaillier a faire la paix.”
Footnote 511: _Sc._ though.
Footnote 512: _Sc._ ought.
Footnote 513: This is not among Solon’s sayings in the “Dis des Philosophes.”
Footnote 514: Ephes. vi. 11.
Footnote 515: His, MS., both here and in the next line.
Footnote 516: _Sc._ Narcissus; Narcisus, H. See the story in Ovid, Met. iii. 356 sq.
Footnote 517: _Cf._ qui par grant necessite requiert autrui; la voix qui est demouree, cest que de gens souffraiteux est il assez demoure ne ilz ne peuent parler fors apres autrui, H.
Footnote 518: The fourth philosopher in the “Dicta”; Salquin, Add. MS. 16,906, f.
Footnote 519: To helpe, MS.
Footnote 520: Prov. xxii. 9.
Footnote 521: _Sc._ Daphne (Ovid, Met. i. 452 sq.); Damne, H.
Footnote 522: To theyme, MS.; ou temps, H.
Footnote 523: _Sc._ how.
Footnote 524: An omission by homœoteleuton; _cf._ estre tous iours present aux ordres des anges auec les benois esperis assister a la gloire du conditeur, regarder le present visage, _etc._, H. The quotation is from Hom. xxxvii. in Evang. (Migne, lxxvi. 1275).
Footnote 525: Psal. lxxxvi. 3.
Footnote 527: Petite paille, H.
Footnote 528: La brusle du feu de sa soubtille circonspeccion, H.
Footnote 530: Ninus, H.
Footnote 531: _Sc._ Nimrod.
Footnote 532: Le roy Ninus, H.
Footnote 533: De Singularitate Clericorum (Migne, iv. 837). The Latin text is somewhat loosely rendered.
Footnote 534: Cest vne sotte fiance, H.; adversaria est confidentia, St. Aug.
Footnote 535: Estre sauf entre les morsures, H.
Footnote 536: And—vnhurte, not in H. or Lat.
Footnote 537: _Sc._ laugheth; rit, H.
Footnote 538: Psal. xxxvi. 3; Bonum est confidere in Domino, _etc._ (Psal. cxvii.
8), H.
Footnote 539: Ce sera quant le roy Priant ne croiras, qui tira priant, H.
Footnote 540: See above, p. 100.
Footnote 541: Shepe, MS.
Footnote 542: _Sc._ Othea; he, MS., both here and a few words later on.
Footnote 543: Sa mort, H.
Footnote 544: Sermo de conversione ad clericos, ch. viii. (Migne, clxxxii. 843).
Footnote 545: adolescentibus in insidiis est, St. Bern.
Footnote 546: Eccl. xiv. 12; tardabit, H.
Footnote 547: Encor te vueil ie faire sage, H.
Footnote 548: ? Stroke; le coup de vne sayette, H. and G. de Tign.
Footnote 549: Qui met auenir, H.; qui meut a venir, G. de Tign (Roy. MS. 19 B. iv.
f. 7b).
Footnote 550: Matt. vi. 6.
Footnote 551: The Politenes of Benoît de Ste. Maure (l. 16105) and Guido delle Colonne.
Footnote 552: Puit estre nuisible, H.
Footnote 553: Couuoitise desordenee, H.
Footnote 554: Dit Ygnocence ou liure de la vilte de condicion humaine, H. The quotation is from Pope Innocent III., “De contemptu mundi,” ii. 6 (Migne, ccxvii. 719).
Footnote 555: Sont ii. sancsues, H.; sanguisugæ, Innoc., quoting Prov. xxx. 15.
Wyer’s version rightly has “horse-leeches”; and the reading “sauce-makers” is inexplicable.
Footnote 556: Tim. vi. 10.
Footnote 557: A luniversaire (_sc._ l’anniversaire) du chief de lan des obseques de Hector, H.; vnyuersarie, Wyer.
Footnote 558: Amer, H.
Footnote 559: In ep. Joannis ad Parthos tract. ii. (Migne, xxxv. 1994).
Footnote 560: Et sa concupiscence, H.
Footnote 561: Amer, H.
Footnote 562: 1 Ep. Joh. ii. 15.
Footnote 563: Perciez doultre en oultre, H.
Footnote 564: _Sc._ Augustine.
Footnote 565: Susde, MS.; ne nul en sa force ne se doit fyer, H.
Footnote 566: 2 Cor. iii. 4, 5; tanquam ex nobis, H.
Footnote 567: Lenditement, H.; exhortacion, Wyer.
Footnote 568: Des mauuais, H.; Barat est le cappitaine des mauuoys et ire est son gouuerneur, G. de Tign. (Roy. MS. 19 B. iv. f. 39).
Footnote 569: iii. (les, H.) inconueniencees, MS.
Footnote 570: _Sc._ deny; reyne, MS.; renyer, H.
Footnote 571: Prov. iv. 15.
Footnote 572: Paix par faintise, H.
Footnote 573: Sa mauuaistie, H.
Footnote 574: Psal. xxi. 26.
Footnote 575: So H. and other MSS.; perhaps a corruption for Thyre or Tyre.
Footnote 576: _Sc._ Ptolemy; Ptholomee, H.
Footnote 577: Apoc. xviii. 7.
Footnote 578: _Sc._ knights.
Footnote 579: _Sc._ as he weaned to have returned; si comme il cuidoit retourner, H.
Footnote 580: _Sc._ wholly.
Footnote 581: Louez, H.; loe, G. de Tign. (Roy. MS. 19 B. iv. f. 44b); lawded ne alowed, Wyer.
Footnote 582: Moralia, xv. 6 (Migne, lxxv. 1084).
Footnote 583: Matt. xxiii. 27.
Footnote 584: _Sc._ sodden; le ble cuit, H. For the same story of Ino see above, p.
29.
Footnote 585: Frustra sibi de infirmitate vel ignorantia blandiuntur, qui ut liberius peccent libenter ignorant vel infirmantur, Bern. de Gradibus Humilitatis, cap. vi. (Migne, clxxxii. 951).
Footnote 586: There is an omission here, _cf._ ou par negligence de les sauoir ou par parece de les demander ou par honte de les enquerir, H.
Footnote 587: 1 Cor. xiv. 38.
Footnote 588: Si ne soient de toy despites, H.
Footnote 589: This story is from the “Aurea Legenda” of Jacobus de Voragine with slight variations (ed. Graesse, 1846, p. 44).
Footnote 590: De quelconques personne que ilz soient dis, H.
Footnote 591: Hugh de St. Victor, Eruditionis didascalicæ libri vii. (Migne, clxxvi.
739).
Footnote 592: Mais que cest que il dit, H.
Footnote 593: Eccl. iii. 31. H. has the colophon, “Explicit lepistre Othea.”