[803]. 'Audacem faciebat amor'; 96.

[804]. She gan her dresse, she settled herself, lit. directed herself. Lat. 'sedit.'

[810]. Rist, riseth; pres. tense, as in l. 887. So arist, Man of Law's Tale, B 265.

[811]. With dredful foot; so again in Kn. Ta., A 1479. 'Timido pede fugit in antrum'; 100. See Dreadful in Trench, Select Glossary; and cf. ll. 109, 404 above.

[813]. 'Dumque fugit, tergo uelamina lapsa reliquit'; 101. 'For fere, and let her wimple falle.'—Gower, Conf. Amant. i. 326.

[814-6]. These three lines are original. Sit, sitteth. Darketh, lies close. 'The child than darked in his den'; Will. of Palerne, 17; 'drawe [drew] him into his den, and darked ther stille'; id. 44. And again in the same poem, ll. 1834, 2851.

[823-31]. Considerably expanded from the Latin:—

'Serius egressus uestigia uidit in alto

puluere certa ferae, totoque expalluit ore

Pyramus'; 105.