2163. _Yle_, island; usually said to be Naxos, on the supposition that it is not much out of the way in sailing from Gnossus in Crete to Attica. Chaucer has inadvertently brought Theseus to Ægina already; but we need not trouble about the geographical conditions. The description of the island is from Ovid, Her. x. 59:--'Uacat insula cultu'; &c. 2167. _Lette_, tarried; pt. t. of the weak verb _letten_; quite distinct from _leet_ or _l[=e]t_ (pt. t. of _leten_), which would not rime with _set-te_. This latter part of the story is nearly all from Ovid, Her. x. Compare, e.g. ll. 4-6:-- 'unde tuam sine me uela tulere ratem; In quo me somnusque meus male prodidit, et tu, pro facinus! somnis insidiate meis.' 2176. _To his contre-ward_, i.e. toward his country. Cf. 'To Thebes-ward'; Kn. Ta. 109 (A 967). 2177. _A twenty devil way_, in the way of twenty devils; i.e. in all sorts of evil ways or directions; cf. Can. Yem. Ta., G 782. 2178. _His fader_, king Ægeus (l. 1944). The story is that Theseus went to Crete in a ship with a black sail, in token of his unhappy fate. He had agreed to exchange this for a white sail, if his expedition was successful; but this he omitted to do. Hence Ægeus, 'seeing the black sail afar off, being out of all hope ever more to see his son again, took such a grief at his heart, that he threw himself headlong from the top of a cliff, and killed himself.'--Shak. Plutarch, p. 284. 2182. _Atake_, overtaken with sleep; cf. C. T. 6966 (D 1384). 2186. 'Perque torum moueo brachia; nullus erat'; Her. x. 12. 2189, 90. 'Alta puellares tardat arena pedes. Interea toto clamanti littore, Theseu!' id. 20. 2192. Suggested by Ovid; ll. 81-6. 2193. 'Reddebant nomen concaua saxa tuum'; id. 22. The Latin and English lines are alike beautiful. 2194. 'Luna fuit; specto, si quid, nisi littora, cernam'; id. 17. 2195-7. These three lines represent eight in Ovid; 25-32. 2198. This line answers to the first line in Ovid, Epist. x. 2200, 1. _His meiny_, its (complete) crew. _Inne_, within; A.S. _innan_. 'Quo fugis, exclamo, scelerate? Reuertere, Theseu; flecte ratem; numerum non habet illa suum'; id. 35. 2202. 'Candidaque imposui longae uelamina uirgae, scilicet oblitos admonitura mei'; id. 41. 2208-17. Paraphrased from Ovid; Her. x. 51-64. 2212. _Answere of_, answer for; 'redde duos.' 2214. _Wher shal I become?_ Where shall I go to? the old idiom. We now say, 'what will become of me?' On this expression, see _Bicome_ in my Gloss. to P. Plowman (Clar. Press Series). 2215. 'For even if a ship or boat were to come this way, I dare not go home to my country, for fear (of my father).' The reading _that bote none here come_ is nonsense, and expresses the converse of what is meant. The corresponding line in Ovid is--'Finge dari comitesque mihi, uentosque, ratemque'; 63. 2218. _What_, for what, why? See Cant. Ta., B 56, &c.