1357 f. ‘She is silent as a jackdaw, chaste as a pigeon, and gentle as a thorn.’
1361 f. Perhaps an allusion to the case of Edward III and Alice Perrers.
LIB. VII.
5. Cp. Conf. Amantis, Prol. 595 ff.
9. modo, ‘now’: cp. note on vi. 1204.
12. nec ... vix. For this combination of ‘vix’ with a negative cp. v. 104, 153.
42. dicunt ... volunt, ‘say that they wish’: cp. ii. 200 f.
47 f. Cp. Conf. Amantis, v. 49 ff.; so below, ll. 61 ff.
123. Rev. ii. 25, ‘id quod habetis tenete, donec veniam.’
125 f. Ovid, Tristia, i. 8. 41 f.,