399 ff. This story of Bacchus is told by Hyginus, Poet. Astr. ii, under the heading ‘Aries.’
437. a riche temple. This was the temple of Jupiter Ammon.
439. ‘To remind thirsty men’ of the power of prayer.
485 ff. The story is from Ovid, Metam. xii. 210 ff.
502 f. thilke tonne drouh, wherof, &c., ‘drew such wine for them that by it,’ &c. See note on i. 771 and cp. ll. 618 and 1249 of this book.
537. I do not know what authority is referred to.
598. unteid, ‘set free,’ so ‘wandering abroad.’
609. The name of this second branch of Gluttony has not been mentioned before.
632 f. ‘so long as he has wealth by which he may be provided with the means.’ For the use of ‘founde’ cp. v. 2690 and Chaucer, Cant. Tales, C 537, ‘How gret labour and cost is thee to fynde!’ (addressing the belly).
640. for the point of his relief, ‘in order to please him,’ so below ‘he is noght relieved,’ l. 678.