67. Cp. Metam. xiii. 395.
79 f. Speculum Stultorum, p. 47, ll. 9 f. (ed. Wright, Rolls Series, 59, vol. i.).
81. irriguis. Perhaps rather ‘Fontibus irriguus, fecundus,’ as given by most of the MSS.
131. ad ymum, ‘to that low place,’ i.e. his bed.
135. Non ita ... Quin magis: cp. ll. 264 ff., 351 ff., 442 ff., 499 ff, &c. This form of sentence is a very common one with our author and appears also in his French and English: cp. Mirour, 18589, Balades, vii. 4, xviii. 2, xxx. 2, Conf. Amantis, i. 718, 1259, 1319, &c.
For example, Bal. xviii. 2,
‘Tiel esperver crieis unqes ne fu,
Qe jeo ne crie plus en ma maniere.’
Conf. Amantis, i. 718 ff.,
‘So lowe cowthe I nevere bowe