Demophoon, son of Theseus, was the lover of Phyllis, daughter of king Sithon in Thrace; she was changed into an almond-tree. 392. _His terme pace_, pass beyond or stay behind his appointed time. He said he would return in a month, but did not do so. See the story in The Legend of Good Women. Gower (ed. Pauli, iii. 361) alludes to her story, in a passage much like the present one; and in Le Rom. de la Rose, 13417, we have the very phrase--'Por _le terme qu'il trespassa_.' 397. In the margin of F. and B.:--'Ouidius. Quam legis a rapta Briseide litera venit'; Heroid. Ep. iii. 1. 401. In the same:--'Ut [_miswritten_ Vbi] tibi Colc[h]orum memini regina uacaui'; Heroid. Ep. xii. 1. For the accentuation of _Medea_, cf. Leg. of Good Women, 1629, 1663. 402. In the margin of F. and B.:--'Gratulor Oechaliam'; Heroid. Ep. ix. 1; but _Oechaliam_ is miswritten _yotholia_. 405. Gower also tells this story; ed. Pauli, ii. 306. 407. In F. and B. is quoted the first line of Ovid, Heroid. x. 1. _Adriane_, Ariadne; just as in Leg. Good Wom. 2171, &c., and in C. T., Group B, l. 67. Gower has _Adriagne_. 409. 'For, whether he had laughed, or whether he had frowned'; i.e. in any case. Cf. l. 98. 411. 'If it had not been for Ariadne.' We have altered the form of this idiom. 416. _Yle_, isle of Naxos; see notes to Leg. Good Wom. 2163, and C. T., Group B, l. 68 (in vol. v.). 426. _Telles_ is a Northern and West-Midland form, as in Book Duch. 73. Cf. _falles_, id. 257. A similar admixture of forms occurs in Havelok, Will. of Palerne, and other M.E. poems. 429. _The book_, i.e. Vergil; Æn. iv. 252. 434. _Go_, gone, set out; correctly used. Chaucer passes on to Æneid, bk. v. The _tempest_ is that mentioned in Æn. v. 10; the _steersman_ is Palinurus, who fell overboard; Æn. v. 860. 439. See Æn. bk. vi. The _isle_ intended is Crete, Æn. vi. 14, 23; which was not at all near (or 'besyde') Cumæ, but a long way from it. Æneas then descends to hell, where he sees Anchises (vi. 679); Palinurus (337); Dido (450); Deiphobus, son of Priam (495); and the tormented souls (580). 447. _Which_ refers to the various sights in hell. 449. _Claudian_, Claudius Claudianus, who wrote De raptu Proserpinae about A.D. 400. _Daunte_ is Dante, with reference to his Inferno, ii. 13-27, and Paradiso, xv. 25-27. 451. Chaucer goes on to Æn. vii-xii, of which he says but little. 458. _Lavyna_ is Lavinia; the form _Lavina_ occurs in Dante, Purg. xvii. 37. 468. I put _seyën_ for _seyn_, to improve the metre; cf. P. Pl. C. iv. 104. 474. 'But I do not know who caused them to be made.' 475. Read _ne in_ as _nin_; as in Squi. Tale, F 35. 482. This waste space corresponds to Dante's 'gran diserto,' Inf. i. 64; or, still better, to his 'landa' (Inf. xiv. 8), which was too sterile to support plants. So again, l. 486 corresponds to Dante's 'arena arida e spessa,' which has reference to the desert of Libya; Inf. xiv. 13.