That swevenes ben of no credence.’
‘propositum credulitatis’ seems to mean ‘true ground of belief.’
12. interius mentis: cp. i. 1361.
15. That is, ‘hinc puto quod sompnia que vidi,’ &c.
21 ff. We are here told to add to ‘John’ the first letters of ‘Godfrey,’ the beginning of ‘Wales,’ and the word ‘Ter’ without its head: that is, ‘John Gower.’
23. que tali. The use of ‘que’ in this manner, standing independently at the beginning of the clause, is very common in Gower.
33 f. Taken from Ovid, Tristia, v. 1. 5 f.
36. Cp. Tristia, i. 1. 14, ‘De lacrimis factas sentiet esse meis,’ which, so far as it goes, is in favour of the reading ‘senciat’ here.
37 f. This couplet was originally Tristia, iv. 1. 95 f.,
‘Saepe etiam lacrimae me sunt scribente profusae,