1890. _Ful of degrees_, full of steps (placed one above another, as in an amphitheatre). 'But now they have gone a nearer way to the wood, for with wooden galleries in the church that they have, and _stairy degrees of seats_ in them, they make as much room to sit and hear, as a new west end would have done.'--Nash's Red Herring, p. 21. See Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar, ii. 126, and also 2 Kings xx. 9. Cf. 'While she stey up from _gre_ to _gre_.'--Lives of Saints, Roxb. Club, p. 59. Lines 1187-1894 are more or less imitated from the Teseide, vii. 108-110. 1910. Coral is a curious material to use for such a purpose; but we find posts of coral and a palace chiefly formed of coral and metal in Guy of Warwick, ed. Zupitza, 11399-11401. 1913. _don wroght_, caused (to be) made; observe this idiom. Cf. _don yow kept_, E. 1098; _han doon fraught_, B. 171; _haf gert saltit_, Bruce, xviii. 168. 1918-32. See the analysis of this passage in vol. iii. p. 390. 1919. _on the wal_, viz. on the walls _within_ the oratory. The description is loosely imitated from Boccaccio's Teseide, vii. 55-59. It is remarkable that there is a much closer imitation of the same passage in Chaucer's Parl. of Foules, ll. 183-294. Thus at l. 246 of that poem we find:-- 'Within the temple, of syghes hote as fyr, I herde a swogh, that gan aboute renne; Which syghes were engendred with desyr, That maden every auter for to brenne Of newe flaume; and wel aspyed I thenne That al the cause of sorwes that they drye Com of the bitter goddesse Ialousye.' There is yet another description of the temple of Venus in the House of Fame, 119-139, where we have the very line 'Naked fletinge in a see' (cf. l. 1956 below), and a mention of the 'rose garlond' (cf. l. 1961), and of 'Hir dowves and daun Cupido' (cf. ll. 1962-3). 1929. _golde_, a marigold; _Calendula_. '_Goolde_, herbe: Solsequium, quia sequitur solem, elitropium, calendula'; Prompt. Parv. The corn-marigold in the North is called _goulans_, _guilde_, or _goles_, and in the South, _golds_ (Way). Gower says that Leucothea was changed 'Into a floure was named _golde_, Which stant governed of the sonne.' Conf. Am., ed. Pauli, ii. 356. [78] Yellow is the colour of jealousy; see _Yellowness_ in Nares. In the Rom. de la Rose, 22037, Jealousy is described as wearing a 'chapel de _soussie_,' i. e. a chaplet of marigolds. 1936. _Citheroun_ = Cithaeron, sacred to Venus; as said in the Rom. de la Rose, 15865, q.v. 1940. In the Romaunt of the Rose, _Idleness_ is the _porter_ of the garden in which the rose (Beauty) is kept. In the Parl. of Foules, 261, the porter's name is _Richesse_. Cf. ll. 2, 3 of the Second Nonnes Tale (G. 2, 3). 1941. _of yore agon_, of years gone by. Cf. Ovid, Met. iii. 407. 1953-4. Imitated from Le Roman de la Rose, 16891-2.