Or she was hurt, before that she deyde, (430) She wroot a lettre anoon, that thus began:-- 'Right so,' quod she, 'as that the whyte swan 1355 Ayeins his deeth beginneth for to singe, Right so to yow make I my compleyninge. Nat that I trowe to geten yow again, For wel I woot that it is al in vain, Sin that the goddes been contraire to me. 1360 But sin my name is lost through yow,' quod she, 'I may wel lese a word on yow, or letter, Al-be-it that I shal be never the better; (440) For thilke wind that blew your ship a-wey, The same wind hath blowe a-wey your fey.'-- 1365 But who wol al this letter have in minde, Rede Ovide, and in him he shal hit finde. EXPLICIT LEGENDA DIDONIS MARTIRIS, CARTAGINIS REGINE. N.B. _From this point onward obvious corrections in the spelling of_ MS. F. _are unnoticed_. 928. C. _has_--In Naso and Eneydos wele [_for_ wol] I take. 932. C. I offerede to; _rest_ offred unto. 950. C. wol (= wel); _for_ ful. 960, 961. _These two lines are in_ C. _and_ P. _only; all former editions omit them_. 964. C. clepid; _rest_ called. 966. Tn. Th. B. tespye; C. tespie; F. to spye; T. to spy; A. to aspye. 973. C. P. cutte; F. B. knytte; _rest_ cutted (cuttyd, cuttit). 979. _So all_; Oon (_for_ Any) _would read better_. 994. F. Tn. Th. B. _om._ him. 997. Tn. ner; F. Th. B. nere; _rest_ were (wer). 1002. F. by; _rest_ for. 1003. T. P. Addit. a; _rest om._ 1006. C. Addit. is; _rest om._ 1018. C. thus (_for_ than). 1019. F. (_only_) _om._ large. 1024. P. F. the; _rest_ this. 1028. F. Tn. A. B. _om._ so. 1046. T. Th. was ther yet; P. more was ther; Add. was their; A. [gh]it was sene; _rest_ was yit (_or_ yit was). F. in (_for_ a). 1048. C. A. P. he; _rest_ we (!). 1063. C. she hadde; A. sche had eke; P. she hedd þo; T. Add. had she; B. had; F. and (!). 1066. F. (_only_) _om._ that he. 1072. F. Tn. Th. _om._ he. 1074. C. P. Add. he; _rest_ him. 1079. F. Tn. Th. B. _om._ that _and_ in. 1081. F. B. mote; P. wold; _rest_ muste (must, moost, most); _read_ moste. 1085. F. Tn. _om._ and. F. Tn. B. _repeat_ in this manere; _rest_ as ye may here. 1091. C. massangerys; B. messagerys; A. messinger_is_; F. Tn. messagers; _after which all but_ F. _and_ B. _needlessly insert_ to, _or_ for to. 1094. C. Sche; _rest_ Ful (_because they put_ beest, she _for_ beste, _as in_ C). 1107. C. T. Add. ornamentis; _rest_ pavements (_error for_ parements, _caught from_ l. 1106). 1112. C. For his ese and for to take. 1115. C. to iuste (_for_ the Iusting). 1117. C. T. Add. frettid; A. P. fretted; F. B. frette; Tn. Th. fret. 1119. F. B. rubee; _rest_ ruby. C. shynede; Tn. P. shyned; F. T. A. Th. B. shyneth. 1126. _For_ noble _all have_ honourable, _giving_ two _syllables too many; see ll._ 1143, 1210, 1222. 1129. A. vnto; C. on to; _rest_ to. 1139. _So_ C. P.; F. Tn. Th. B.