[683]. 'And expected to please her.' For pitous Ioye represents 'pietosa allegrezza,' Fil. iv. st. 80.
[684]. 'Dear enough at a mite;' cf. note to L. G. Wom. 741.
[692]. on every syde; 'd'ogni partito;' Fil. iv. 81. I suppose it means, literally, 'on every side;' Troy being subject to attacks at various points.
[708-14]. Certainly genuine; found also in Fil. iv. 84.
[716]. Deficient in the first foot.
[735]. Dr. Furnivall says that MSS. Cl., H., and others have here misplaced a stanza, meaning that ll. 750-6 should have come next, as shewn by Boccaccio's text. But only MS. Cm. has such an order, and it is quite certain that the other MSS. are right. The order in Boccaccio's text furnishes no real guide, as Chaucer often transposes such order; and it is odd that only this one instance should have been noted. It is better to consider the order in MS. Cm. as wrong, and to say that it transposes the text by placing ll. 750-6 after l. 735, and gives a somewhat different version of ll. 750-2.
[736]. ounded, waved, wavy; see Ho. Fame, 1386, and note. Cf. 'Tear my bright hair,' &c.; Shak. Troilus, iv. 2. 112.
[750]. Cf. note to l. 735. MS. Cm., which inserts this stanza after l. 735, begins thus:—
'The salte teris from hyre eyȝyn tweyn
Out ran, as schour of Aprille ful swythe;