'Si te dirai que tu dois faire
Por l'amour de la debonnaire [or, du haut seintueire]
De qui tu ne pues avoir aise;
Au departir la porte baise.'
The lover is here directed to kiss the door!
2684-6. From Ovid, Ars Amat. i. 729, 733.
2695. All from Ovid, Ars Amat. ii. 251-260.
2710. Read fare, short for faren, gone; cf. Ovid, Ars Am. ii. 357-8. A note in Bell says—'fore means absent, from the Lat. foris, abroad.' This is a cool invention.
2775. Hope, do thou hope; imperative mood.
2824. The reading not ben ruins sense and metre.