La tierce partie del mont,
Où sont li meillor chevalier.’ 3791 ff.,
while Guido says, ‘Nostis enim ... totam Affricam et Europam hodie Grecis esse subiectam, quanta Greci multitudine militum sunt suffulti,’ &c. See below, 7340 ff.
The story is told by Gower with good judgement, and he freely omits unnecessary details, as those of the mission of Antenor to Greece. The debate in Priam’s parliament is shortened, and the speeches of Hector and Paris much improved.
7197 ff. Cp. 3303 ff.
7202. The sentence is broken off and resumed in a different form: see note on i. 98.
7015* ff. Cp. Mirour, 7156 ff.
7033*. And that, i. e. ‘And provided that.’
7092*. See note on l. 6634.