536-7. Solomon and Samson; the usual stock examples. But probably in this case borrowed from Lydgate's Balade, XIV. 4 (p. 295), which is certainly quoted thrice again below.
542. This line is made up from Lydgate's Balade, XIV. 29-33, and 26; so again l. 544 resembles the same, l. 24. And Lydgate merely
versifies the medieval proverb: 'Fallere,' &c.; see note to XIV. 29; p. 516.
547. of kind, by nature; as in XIV. 29 (p. 296).
550. 'An housbond shal nat been inquisitif'; C. T., A 3163.
556. Citherea is right; see l. 50; MS. and Stowe have Cithera.
560. 'You that are provided already with a lady.'—Bell. Cf. l. 561.
561-3. eke, lyke, a permissible rime, at a time when e had gained the mod. E. sound. See note to l. 81 above.
570. See T. G. 143-6. With l. 577, cf. T. G. 50.
580. The reading blisful is certain; it is from T. G. 328:—'O blisful sterre, persant and ful of light.' The author uses persant below, in l. 849.