102-7. From Ch. Boeth. bk. iii. pr. 8. 26-35.
104-5. fayre and foule, handsome and ugly men; hewe, beauty.
107-10. thilke—knotte; equivalent to 'they ne ben nat weyes ne pathes that bringen men to blisfulnesse'; Ch., as above, ll. 42-3.
122. Cf. 'But alday fayleth thing that fooles wenden'; certainly the right reading of Troil. i. 217; see note on the line; vol. ii. p. 463.
124. the sterre, the star of the Southern pole; so in the next line, the Northern pole-star.
126. out-waye-going, going out of the way, error of conduct; which may be called, as it were, 'imprisonment,' or 'banishment.' It is called Deviacion in bk. iii. ch. i. 6, which see.
127. falsed, proved false, gave way.
130. Cf. 'It suffyseth that I have shewed hiderto the forme of false welefulness'; Ch. Boeth. bk. iii. pr. 9. 1. With line 131, cf. the same, ll. 5-7.
Chap. IX. 1-5. Cf. Ch. Boeth. bk. iii. pr. 9. 9-11.