165 f. Cp. Conf. Amantis, Prol. 473 ff.
175. Ars Amat. iii. 503 f., but Ovid has ‘Gorgoneo saevius,’ for ‘commota lenius.’
177. Cp. Metam. viii. 465, ‘Saepe suum fervens oculis dabat ira ruborem.’ The reading ‘oculis’ is necessary to the sense and appears in one manuscript.
179. Cp. Ovid, Ars Amat. iii. 509.
215. ‘corrodium’ (or ‘corredium’) is the allowance made from the funds of a religious house for the sustentation of a member of it or of someone else outside the house: see Ducange under ‘conredium’ and New Engl. Dict. ‘corrody.’ Gower himself perhaps had in his later life a corrody in the Priory of Saint Mary Overey, of which he was a benefactor.
302. The reference is to Ecclus. xix. 27, ‘Amictus corporis et risus dentium et ingressus hominis enunciant de eo.’ Cp. Confessio Amantis, i. 2705, margin.
305-310. Aurora, (MS. Bodley 822) f. 65,
‘Est nigra coruus auis et predo cadaueris, illum
Quem male denigrat ceca cupido notans.
. . . . .