Of hem that &c., ‘As regards those who have such deceit in their hearts,’ i.e. hypocrites: cp. 956, ‘O derke ypocrisie.’
1102. The MS. can hardly be right in punctuating after ‘Togedre.’
1129 f. So Lydgate, perhaps with this passage in his mind,
‘Makynge a colour of devocion
Through holynesse under ypocrisie.’
Tale of Troye, bk. iv.
1133. trapped. ‘In quo construentur quedam clausure sic artificiose composite, quod’ &c. Hist. Troiana, m 4 vo. Gower does not say that men were contained within, though this is stated by his authorities, of whom Benoît places Sinon inside the horse, while Guido finds room there for a thousand armed men. The ‘twelve’ wheels seem to be due to Gower, as also the picturesque touch, ‘And goth glistrende ayein the Sunne.’
1146 ff. Cp. Roman de Troie, 25814 ff. (ed. Joly),
‘Et quant ço virent Troien,
Conseil pristrent que des terralz