3731 ff. The picturesque elements here are perhaps partly suggested by Rom. de Troie, 1869 ff.
3747. That he ne were, expressing a wish: cp. iv. 3414, ‘Helas, that I nere of this lif,’ equivalent to ‘why ne were I,’ l. 5979.
3781 f. ‘leyhe’ seems to be modified in form for the sake of the rhyme, the usual form in Gower being ‘lawhe.’
3786. naght, in rhyme for ‘noght’: cp. ‘awht,’ ‘auht,’ i. 2770, v. 6073.
3789. So Ovid, Metam. vii. 144 ff.,
‘Tu quoque victorem complecti, barbara, velles,
Obstitit incepto pudor,’ &c.,
but it is also in Benoît, Rom. de Troie, 1991 f.
3793 ff. The sending of the maid, with the pretty touch in l. 3800, is an addition by Gower.
3890. Cp. i. 1516.