6047. Cp. Chaucer, Parl. of Foules, 347, ‘The false lapwyng ful of trecherye.’
6053. goddes forebode: cp. Chaucer, Leg. of Good Women, 10,
‘But goddes forbode but men schulde leve,’
where the second form of text has
‘But god forbede but men shulde leve.’
We must take ‘forebode’ as a substantive.
6073. auht: modified to suit the rhyme: so ‘awht,’ i. 2770, and ‘naght,’ l. 3786, rhyming with ‘straght.’ The regular forms for Gower are ‘oght,’ ‘noght.’
6145 ff. This is from Ovid, Metam. ii. 569-588. Gower has judiciously kept it apart from the story of Coronis and the raven, told by him in the second book, with which it is combined in rather a confusing manner by Ovid. The story is somewhat expanded by Gower.
6150. wif to Marte: cp. 1214 f.
6169. And caste: cp. l. 4590, and see note on i. 1895.