Their tale is told in the Conf. Am. by Gower; he expresses no horror at their incestuous passion, but remarks on the cruelty of their father, who
“for he was to loue strange,
He wolde not his herte change
To be benigne and fauourable
To loue, but vnmerciable!”
B. iii. fol. xlviii. ed. 1554.
(and see the lines cited in note on v. 1048. p. 324). Lydgate (Fall of Prynces, B. i. leaf xxxv. ed. Wayland) relates the story with a somewhat better moral feeling.
Page 399. v. 935. iwus] Or i-wis (adv.),—i. e. truly, certainly.
v. 936. Endeuoure me] i. e. Exert myself.
v. 941. Wele] i. e. Well.