Gaires plus de lieue et demie.
De l’altre part est li isliax,
Non mie granz, mès molt est biax.’
3533. dethes wounde, ‘deadly wound’: cp. iii. 2657, ‘And smot him with a dethes wounde,’ and also the genitives ‘lyves’ for ‘living’ and ‘worldes’ for ‘worldly,’ i. 1771, iv. 382, &c.
3573. hold, i. e. let him hold: cp. viii. 1128, 1420.
3579 ff. According to Benoît Medea gave him first the magic figure, ‘une figure Fete par art et par conjure’ (cp. 3580), then the ointment and the ring, and after that a writing, the words of which he was to repeat three times when he came to the place. Gower changes the order of things, and combines the writing with the ‘hevenely figure,’ describing it as written over with names which he is to repeat in the manner mentioned.
3632. That thanne he were, &c., that is, she prayed that he would soon be gone.
3654. ‘It shall not be owing to any sloth of mine if I do not,’ &c.
3665 ff.
‘Dedanz son lit s’est tost cochiez