2160. _Thre_; Lat. text, _tres_; Fr. text, _trois_. Tyrwhitt has _foure_, as in MSS. Cp. Ln.; yet in l. 2562, he prints 'thin enemies ben three,' and in l. 2615, he again prints 'thy three enemies.' Again, in l. 2612, it is explained that these three enemies signify, allegorically, the flesh, the world, and the devil. 2164. _As ferforth_, as far; as in B. 19, 1099, &c. Mätzner also quotes from Troilus, ii. 1106--'How ferforth be ye put in loves daunce.' 2165. Mätzner would read--'ever _the_ lenger the more'; but see E. 687, F. 404. 2166. _Ovide_, Ovid. The passage referred to is-- 'Quis matrem, nisi mentis inops, in funere nati Flere uetet? non hoc illa monenda loco. Cum dederit lacrimas, animumque expleuerit aegrum, Ille dolor uerbis emoderandus erit.' Remedia Amoris, 127-130. 2172. _Warisshe_, recover; Cp. Ln. Hl. _be warisshed_, be cured. Chaucer uses this verb elsewhere both transitively and intransitively, so that either reading will serve. For the transitive use, see below, ll. 2207, 2466, 2476, 2480; also F. 856, 1138, 1162; Book of Duch. 1104. For the intransitive use, observe that, in F. 856, Cp. Pt. Ln. have--'then wolde myn herte Al _waryssche_ of this bitter peynes [203] smerte'; and cf. Morte Arthure, 2186--'I am wathely woundide, _waresche_ mon I neuer!'--M. Lat. text--'Filia tua, dante Domino, bene liberabitur.' 2174. _Senek_, Seneca. 'Non affligitur sapiens liberorum amissione, non amicorum; eodem animo enim fert illorum mortem quo suam expectat'; Epist. 74, § 29. 2177. _Lazarus_; see John, xi. 35. 2178. _Attempree_, moderate; Lat. text, 'temperatus fletus.' Hl. _attemperel_, which Mätzner illustrates. Cf. D. 2053, where Hl. has _attemperelly_; and E. 1679, where Hl. has _attemperely_. Cf. ll. 2570, 2728 below. _Nothing defended_, not at all forbidden. 2179. See Rom. xii. 15. 2181. 'According to the doctrine that Seneca teaches us.' Cf. 'Non sicci sint oculi, amisso amico, nec fluant; lacrimandum est, non plorandum'; Epist. 63, § 1. 2183. This is also, practically, from Seneca: 'Quem amabis extulisti, quaere quem ames; satius est amicum reparare, quam flere'; Epist. 63, § 9. 2185. _Iesus Syrak_, Jesus the son of Sirach. 'Ecclesiasticus is the title given in the Latin version to the book which is called in the Septuagint The Wisdom of Jesus the son of Sirach'; Smith, Dict. of the Bible. Compare the title 'A prayer of Jesus the son of Sirach' to Ecclus. ch. li. But the present quotation is really from Prov. xvii. 22. It is the _next_ quotation, in l. 2186, that is from Ecclus. xxx. 25 (Vulgate), i. e. xxx. 23 in the English version. The mistake is due to misreading the original Lat. text, which quotes the passages _in the reverse order_, as being from 'Jesus Sirac' and 'alibi.'