Somniferam quatiens uirgam, tectusque galero.'
See Lounsbury, Studies, ii. 382.
1390. Argus, Argus of the hundred eyes, whom Mercury charmed to sleep before slaying him. Ovid, Met. i. 714.
1401. Cf. 'Hir face ... Was al ychaunged in another kinde'; Troil. iv. 864.
1405. bar him lowe, conducted himself as one of low estate. Cf. E. 2013.
1409. Cf. 'in maniera di pover valletto'; Tes. iv. 22.
1428. In the Teseide, iv. 3, he takes the name of Penteo. Philostrato is the name of another work by Boccaccio, answering to Chaucer's Troilus. The Greek φιλόστρατος means, literally, 'army-lover'; but it is to be noted that Boccaccio did not so understand it. He actually connected it with the Lat. stratus, and explained it to mean 'vanquished or prostrated with love'; and this is how the name is here used.
1444. slyly, prudently, wisely. The M. E. sleigh, sly = wise, knowing: and sleight = wisdom, knowledge. (For change of meaning compare cunning, originally knowledge; craft, originally power; art, &c.)
'Ne swa sleygh payntur never nan was,
Thogh his sleght mught alle other pas,