[60]. matere, material, source.
[62]. vertu. Boethius here derives uirtus from uires: 'quod suis uiribus nitens non superetur aduersis.'
[64]. Ne certes: 'Neque enim uos in prouectu positi uirtutis, diffluere deliciis, et emarcescere uoluptate uenistis; proelium cum omni fortuna nimis acre conseritis, ne uos aut tristis opprimat, aut iucunda corrumpat: firmis medium uiribus occupate.'
[72]. in your hand: 'In uestra enim situm est manu.'
Metre 7. [1]. wreker, avenger; Attrides, Atrides, i.e. Agamemnon, son of Atreus. Chaucer derived the spelling Agamenon from a gloss in MS. C. Gower (C. A. ii. 344) has the same form.
[2]. recovered: 'Fratris amissos thalamos piauit.'
[5]. Menelaus, &c.; 'that was his brother Menelaus' wife.' The usual idiom; see note to Squieres Tale, E 209.
[9]. doughter, i.e. Iphigenia; Ovid, Met. xii. 27-38.
[13]. Itacus: 'Fleuit amissos Ithacus sodales.' The well-known story of Ulysses of Ithaca; from Homer, Od. ix.
[15]. empty; as if translating 'inani.' But the right reading is inmani (or immani); i.e. 'vast.' MS. C. 'inmani,' glossed 'magno.'