322. serroit, ‘he might be,’ conditional for subj.; cp. l. 25.
330. ‘And swore it mutually’: see note on 1135.
355. a son derere, ‘to his harm.’
364. porray, fut. for subj.
373. de sa partie, ‘for his part’: like ‘en son endroit,’ ‘en son degre,’ &c., ll. 139, 218, &c.
397. grantment: cp. l. 276.
407. Q’un messager &c. ‘So that he sent a messenger at once after him in great haste.’ This is better than taking ‘tramist’ as subjunctive (‘that he should send’ &c.), because of ‘Cil messager’ in the next stanza. For ‘que’ meaning ‘so that’ cp. 431, 485.
415. Depar le deable et. This position of the conjunction is characteristic of Gower’s English writing, e.g. Conf. Am. Prol. 155, 521, 756, &c., and it often occurs also in the present work: cp. 100, 1008, 2955, &c. ‘Depar le deable’ evidently is better taken here with ‘pria’ than with the preceding line. The words thus treated are ‘et,’ ‘mais,’ ‘car,’ ‘ainz’ (24646).
416. hastera: see note on 1184.
438. soiez, for ‘soies,’ 2 pers. singular; so 645.