[2454]. Agroted, surfeited, cloyed. A rare word; used also by Lydgate. See the New E. Dict.
[2456]. This is a hint that Chaucer was already getting tired of his task.
[2477]. In a month. So in Ovid; see l. 2503.
[2485]. With a corde, i.e. by hanging. Cf. Ovid, Her. ii. 141:—
'Colla quoque, infidis quae se nectenda lacertis
praebuerant, laqueis implicuisse libet.'
[2493]. Hir soules, their souls; of Theseus and Demophoön.
[2495]. 'Although it be but a small part of the whole letter.' In fact, Chaucer gives us ll. 1-8 of Ovid's second Epistle (in the Heroides); and, from l. 2518 onward, sentences made up from ll. 26, 27, 43, 44, 49-52, 63-68, 73-78, and 134-137 of the same.
[2496]. Compare these lines with Ovid, Her. ii. 1-8:—
'Hospita, Demophoon, tua te Rhodopeïa Phyllis