A Circes et a Calipsa.’
VII. Margin damaged in the Trentham MS., as above mentioned. For the story cp. Conf. Am. ii. 2145 ff. and iv. 2045 ff.
1. El grant desert, &c. Cp. Chaucer, Monkes Tale, l. 128.
5. Achelons: so in Conf. Am. iv. 2068. Chaucer has ‘Achiloyns,’ wrongly given ‘Achiloyus’ in some editions.
9. Eolen: this is the form of the name used in the Conf. Am. v. 6808 ff.
11. d’Eurice: ‘Euricie’ in the Latin margin; cp. ‘The kinges dowhter of Eurice,’ Conf. Am. ii. 2267. It is taken as the name of a country, but no doubt this results from a misunderstanding of some such expression as Ovid’s ‘Eurytidosque Ioles,’ ‘of Iole the daughter of Eurytus,’ taken to mean ‘Eurytian Iole.’
Herculem: cp. ‘Medeam’ in viii. l. 12.
17. l’auctour: probably Ovid, Met. ix.
VIII. Cp. Mir. 3725 ff. and Conf. Am. v. 3247 ff.
13. Creusa, a dissyllable, as in Conf. Am. v. 4196 ff.