Troilus, bk. v. ll. 1814-6.
'Vidi questo globo
Tal, ch' io sorriso del suo vil sembiante.'
Dante, Parad. xxii. 134.
See also Parl. Foules, 57, 58; and note that the above passage from Troilus is copied from the Teseide (xi. 2).
[915]. The note in Gilman's Chaucer as to Alexander's dreams is entirely beside the mark. The word dreme (l. 917) refers to Scipio only. The reference is to the wonderful mode in which Alexander contrived to soar in the air in a car upborne by four gigantic griffins.
'Now is he won þurȝe þar wingis vp to the wale cloudis;
So hiȝe to heuen þai him hale in a hand-quile,
Midil-erth bot as a mylnestane, na mare, to him semed.'
Wars of Alexander, ed. Skeat (E.E.T.S.), 5523.