Ovid, Heroid. xviii. 111.
[1490]. Read wer-e, in two syllables. these worldes tweyne seems to mean 'two worlds such as this.'
[1495]. This somewhat resembles Verg. Ecl. i. 60-4.
[1502]. 'Even if I had to die by torture;' as in Bk. i. 674.
[1514]. mo, others; see note to Cler. Ta. E 1039.
[1546]. 'Desire burnt him afresh, and pleasure began to arise more than at first.' Cf. the parallel line in Leg. Good Wom. 1156: 'Of which ther gan to breden swich a fyr.' Yet Bell rejects this reading as being 'not at all in Chaucer's manner,' and prefers nonsense.
[1577]. 'Christ forgave those who crucified him.'
[1600]. Cf. Æneid. vi. 550:—
'Quae rapidus flammis ambit torrentibus amnis
Tartareus Phlegethon.'