6197. ‘mota est pro virgine virgo, Auxiliumque tulit,’ Metam. ii. 579 f., but Ovid says nothing of any special prayer to Pallas for help, nor does he represent that Cornix was before in attendance upon that goddess.
6207 ff. This is original and characteristic of our author.
6225 ff. This story is from Ovid, Metam. ii. 409-507, but Gower evidently knew it from other sources also, for the name Calistona (or Callisto) is not given by Ovid, who calls her ‘virgo Nonacrina’ and ‘Parrhasis.’ Hyginus tells it in various forms, Fab. 177 and Poet. Astr. ii. 2.
6255. According to Ovid, Diana was quite ignorant of the fact, though the nymphs suspected it.
6258. in a ragerie, that is ‘in sport’: cp. Chaucer, Cant. Tales, E 1847, and the use of the verb ‘rage,’ e. g. i. 1764 and Cant. Tales, A 257, 3273, 3958.
6275 ff. ‘I procul hinc, dixit, nec sacros pollue fontes,’ Metam. ii. 464.
6281. F has a stop after ‘schame.’
6291 ff. This address is mostly original: cp. Metam. ii. 471 ff.
6334 ff.
‘Arcuit omnipotens, pariterque ipsosque nefasque