Fig. 3 is 'Puer,' or 'Flavus,' or 'Imberbis'; element, fire; planet, Mars; sign, Aries. Chaucer (or some one else) seems to have confused figures 1 and 3, or Puer with Puella; for Puella was dedicated to Venus. Rubeus is clearly right, as Mars was the red planet (l. 1747). I first explained this, somewhat more fully, in The Academy, March 2, 1889. 2049. From Tes. vii. 38:--'E tal ricetto edificato avea Mulcibero _sottil_ colla sua arte.'--Kölbing, in Engl. Studien, ii. 528. 2056. _Calistopee_ = _Callisto_, a daughter of Lycaon, King of Arcadia, and companion of Diana. See Ovid's Fasti, ii. 153; Gower, Conf. Amantis, ed. Pauli, ii. 336. 2059, 2061. 'Cf. Ovid's Fasti, ii. 153-192; especially 189, 190, "Signa propinqua micant. Prior est, quam dicimus Arcton, Arctophylax formam terga sequentis habet." The nymph Callisto was changed into _Arctos_ or the Great Bear; hence "Vrsa Maior" is written in the margin of E. Hn. Cp. Ln. This was sometimes confused with the other Arctos or Lesser Bear, in which was situate the _lodestar_ or Polestar. Chaucer has followed this error. Callisto's son, Arcas, was changed into Arctophylax or Boötes: here again Chaucer says a _sterre_, when he means a whole constellation; as, perhaps, he does in other passages.'--Chaucer's Astrolabe, ed. Skeat (E. E. T. S.), pp. xlviii, xlix. 2062, 2064. _Dane_ = _Daphne_, a girl beloved by Apollo, and changed into a laurel. See Ovid's Metamorph. i. 450; Gower, Conf. Amantis, ed. Pauli, i. 336; Troilus, iii. 726. 2065. _Attheon_ = _Actaeon_. See Ovid's Metamorph. iii. 138. 2070. _Atthalante_ = _Atalanta_. See Ovid's Metamorph. x. 560; and Troilus, v. 1471. 2074. _nat drawen to memorie_ = not draw to memory, not call to mind. 2079. Cf. 'gawdy greene. _subviridis_'; Prompt. Parv. This _gaudè_ has nothing whatever to do with the E. sb. _gaud_, but answers to F. _gaudé_, the pp. of the verb _gauder_, to dye with weld; from the F. sb. _gaude_, weld. As to _weld_, see my note to The Former Age, 17; in [84] vol. i. p. 540. Littré has an excellent example of the word: 'Les bleus teints en indigo doivent être _gaudés_, et ils deviennent _verts_.' 2086. _thou mayst best_, art best able to help, thou hast most power. Lucina was a title both of Juno and Diana; see Vergil, Ecl. iv. 10. 2112. Here _paramours_ is used adverbially, like _paramour_ in l. 1155. From Le Roman de la Rose, 20984:--'Jamès par amors n'ameroit.' 2115. _benedicite_ is here pronounced as a trisyllable, viz. _ben'cite_. It usually _is_ so, though five syllables in l. 1785. Cf. _benste_ in Towneley Myst. p. 85. Cf. 'What, liveth nat thy lady, _benedicite_!' Troil. i. 780. _Benedicite_ is equivalent to 'thank God,' and was used in saying graces. See Babees Book, pp. 382, 386; and Appendix, p. 9. 2125. This line seems to mean that there is nothing new under the sun.