295 f. The question of winning a ‘chase’ at tennis is not one which is decided at once by the stroke that is made, but depends on later developments.
330 f. Cp. Conf. Amantis, vii. 3161*.
337 ff. Conf. Amantis, ii. 3187 ff.
345. at al, ‘altogether.’
354. the lieve of lothe, ‘they who were now loved but had before been hated’ (by God).
356. I read ‘weren’ for the metre. However the case may be with Chaucer, there is no instance elsewhere in Gower of elision prevented by caesura. The cases that have been quoted are all founded on misreadings.
365 f. Cp. Conf. Amantis, viii. 2988*.
379. of pes, ‘with regard to peace.’
382. see the werre, that is, ‘look to the war’: cp. ll. 137, 144, 281 ff. The reading ‘sese’ was invented by Wright.
Rex celi deus, &c. This piece is to a great extent an adaptation of the original version of Vox Clamantis, vi. cap. 18, as it stands in the Digby MS. The first eight lines are identically the same. Then follows in the Vox Clamantis,