1955. The description of Venus here given has some resemblance to that given in cap. v (De Venere) of Albrici Philosophi De Deorum Imaginibus Libellus, in an edition of the Mythographi Latini, Amsterdam, 1681, vol. ii. p. 304. I transcribe as much as is material. 'Pingebatur Venus pulcherrima puella, nuda, et in mari natans; et in manu sua dextra concham marinam tenens atque gestans; rosisque candidis et rubris sertum gerebat in capite ornatum, et columbis circa se volando, comitabatur.... Hinc et Cupido filius suus alatus et caecus assistebat, qui sagitta et arcu, quos tenebat, Apollinem sagittabat.' It is clear that Chaucer had consulted some such description as this; see further in the note to l. 2041. 1958. Cf. 'wawes ... clere as glas'; Boeth. bk. i. met. 7. 4. 1971. _estres_, the inner parts of a building; as also in A. 4295 and Leg. of Good Women, 1715. 'To spere the _estyrs_ of Rome'; Le Bone Florence, 293; in Ritson, Met. Rom. iii. 13. See also Cursor Mundi, 2252. 'For thow knowest better then I Al the _estris_ of this house.' Pardoner and Tapster, 556; pr. with Tale of Beryn (below). 'His sportis [portes?] and his _estris_'; Tale of Beryn, ed. Furnivall, 837. Cf. 'Qu'il set bien de l'ostel les _estres_'; Rom. de la Rose, 12720; and see Rom. of the Rose, 1448 (vol. i. p. 153). By mistaking the long _s_ for _f_, this word has been misprinted as _eftures_ in the following: 'Pleaseth it yow to see the _eftures_ of this castel?'--Sir Thomas Malory, Mort Arthure, b. xix. c. 7. 1979. _a rumbel and a swough_, a rumbling and a sound of wind. 1982. _Mars armipotente._ 'O thou rede Marz armypotente, That in the trende baye hase made thy throne; That God arte of bataile and regent, And rulist all that alone; To whom I profre precious present, To the makande my moone With herte, body and alle myn entente, . . . . . . In worshipe of thy reverence On thyn owen Tewesdaye.' Sowdone of Babyloyne, ll. 939-953. [79] The word _armipotent_ is borrowed from Boccaccio's _armipotente_, in the Teseide, vii. 32. Other similar borrowings occur hereabouts, too numerous for mention. Note that this description of the temple of Mars once belonged to the end of the poem of Anelida, which see. Let the reader take particular notice that the temple here described (ll. 1982-1994) is merely a _painted_ temple, depicted on one of the walls _inside_ the oratory of Mars. The walls of the other temples had paintings similar to those inside the temple of which the outside is here depicted. Chaucer describes the painted temple as if it were real, which is somewhat confusing. Inconsistent additions were made in revision. 1984. _streit_, narrow; 'la stretta entrata'; Tes. vii. 32.