Neither of these accounts mentions Kenelm's dream, but it is given in his Life, as printed in Early Eng. Poems, ed. Furnivall (Phil. Soc. 1862), p. 51, and in Caxton's Golden Legend. St. Kenelm dreamt that he saw a noble tree with waxlights upon it, and that he climbed to the top of it; whereupon one of his best friends cut it down, and he was turned into a little bird, and flew up to heaven. The little bird denoted his soul, and the flight to heaven his death. 4307. _For traisoun_, i. e. for fear of treason. 4314. _Cipioun._ The Somnium Scipionis of Cicero, as annotated by Macrobius, was a favourite work during the middle ages. See note to l. 31 of the Parl. of Foules. 4328. See the Monkes Tale, B. 3917, and the note, p. 246. 4331. _Lo heer Andromacha._ Andromache's dream is not to be found in Homer. It is mentioned in chapter xxiv. of Dares Phrygius, the authority for the history of the Trojan war most popular in the middle ages. See the Troy-book, ed. Panton and Donaldson (E.E.T.S.), l. 8425; or Lydgate's Siege of Troye, c. 27. 4341. _as for conclusioun_, in conclusion. 4344. _telle ... no store_, set no store by them; reckon them of no value; count them as useless. 4346. _never a del_, never a whit, not in the slightest degree. [255] 4350. This line is repeated from the Compleynt of Mars, l. 61. 4353-6. 'By way of quiet retaliation for Partlet's sarcasm, he cites a Latin proverbial saying, in l. 344, 'Mulier est hominis confusio,' which he turns into a pretended compliment by the false translation in ll. 345, 346.'--Marsh. Tyrwhitt quotes it from Vincent of Beauvais, Spec. Hist. x. 71. Chaucer has already referred to this saying above; see p. 207, l. 2296. 'A woman, as saith the philosofre [i. e. Vincent], is the confusion of man, insaciable, &c.'; Dialogue of Creatures, cap. cxxi. 'Est damnum dulce mulier, confusio sponsi'; Adolphi Fabulae, x. 567; pr. in Leyser, Hist. Poet. Med. Aevi, p. 2031. Cf. note to D. 1195. 4365. _lay_, for _that lay_. Chaucer omits the relative, as is frequently done in Middle English poetry; see note to l. 4090. 4377. According to Beda, the creation took place at the vernal equinox; see Morley, Eng. Writers, 1888, ii. 146. Cf. note to l. 4045. 4384. See note on l. 4045 above. 4395. Cf. Man of Lawes Tale, B. 421, and note. See Prov. xiv. 13. 4398. In the margin of MSS. E. and Hn. is written 'Petrus Comestor,' who is probably here referred to. 4402. See the Squieres Tale, F. 287, and the note.