1524. him stant of me no fere: cp. ii. 2124.
1537. Daunger: see note on i. 2443.
1593 ff. The construction of the sentence is interrupted, but the sense is clear: ‘For if I, who have given all my will and wit to her service, should in reward thereof be suffered to die, it would be pity.’ For this kind of irregularity cp. i. 98, 2948, &c.
1605. The reading ‘in such,’ though given by both S and F, must be wrong.
1630. overthrewe. The verb no doubt is intransitive, as often, e.g. i. 1886, 1962, and below, l. 1638.
1666. him oghte have be: cp. 704.
1685 ff. Ovid, Met. i. 453-567. Gower cuts the story short.
1701. Ovid, Met. i. 470,
‘Quod facit auratum est et cuspide fulget acuta.’
(Merkel alters ‘auratum’ to ‘hamatum,’ but this is certainly wrong.)