IV. (Part I.) THE LEGEND OF HYPSIPYLE.
The chief sources of this fourth Legend are Guido delle Colonne's Historia Troiana, Ovid's Metamorphoses, bk. vii, and Heroides, letters vi. and xii. The story of Hypsipyle is also in Statius' Thebaid, bk. v, and in l. 1437 (see note) there is a reference to the Argonauticon of Valerius Flaccus. See further in the Preface; and see the notes to ll. 1396, 1467.
[1368-95]. This is a Prologue to the Legend, and is original.
[1371]. Reclaiming, enticement, power to subdue; lit. a calling back. Halliwell has: 'To reclaim a hawk, to make her gentle and familiar, to bring her to the wrist by a certain call. It is often used metaphorically, to tame.' Cf. 'since this same wayward girl is so reclaimed'; Romeo, iv. 2. 47.
[1373]. Of, by means of. Farced, stuffed; as in Prol. to C. T., 233.
[1377]. 'Where others betray one, thou betrayest two.'
[1381]. Shove, pushed forward, brought into notice; cf. l. 726.
[1383]. Have at thee! let me attack (or pursue) thee. Thyn horn is blowe, the horn is blown that summons all to pursue thee; a metaphor taken from the chase.
[1387]. Aboght, bought; pp. of abye, which was corrupted into abide; whence 'thou shalt dearly abide it.'
[1388]. Box, blow, buffet; now only used of 'a box on the ear.'