Athamas plain de grant rage La deesse de forcennage Fist estrangler ces (_sc._ ses) .ii. enfans. Pour ce grant yre te deffens. The story (Ovid, Met. iv. 420 sq.), which is introduced again further on (p. 112), is much confused here. It is briefly as follows. Athamas by command of Hera married the divine Nephele, and had by her Phrixus and Helle. He was, however, more enamoured of Ino, who bore to him Learchus and Melicertes. Nephele in her anger having returned to heaven, Ino tried to get rid of her rival’s children. For this purpose she caused a famine by roasting the seed-corn before it was sown, and then bribed the messengers whom Athamas sent to Delphi for an oracle to bring back word that Phrixus must be sacrificed. Nephele, however, carried off Phrixus and his sister on the ram with the golden fleece, while Athamas, driven mad by Hera, killed his son Learchus, and Ino threw herself into the sea with Melicertes. Footnote 219: _Sc._ sodden; semer le ble cuit, H. Footnote 220: Hys, MS. Footnote 221: He, MS. Footnote 222: Yno, MS.; la deesse iuno, H. Footnote 223: A hole in the roof for the escape of smoke, here perhaps used for the hearth; le sueil, H. Footnote 224: _Sic_, meaning apparently “warring”; but from the reading in H., “a pou ne se entretuoyent,” it is perhaps a mistake for “near-hand,” _sc._ nearly, almost. Footnote 225: Quant la deesse virent tant espouentable, H. Footnote 226: Sic ira corrumpit cor, si in alium diem duraverit, S. Aug. Epist. ccx. (Migne, xxxiii. 958). Footnote 227: Ephes. iv. 26. Footnote 228: Aglauros or Agraulos, daughter of Cecrops. Hermes changed her into a stone for barring his access to her sister Herse (Ovid, Met. ii. 737 sq.). Footnote 229: Dey, MS.; seche, H. Footnote 230: _Sic_, probably for “too feloun a spotte”; trop est villeine tache et contre gentillece, H. Footnote 231: De Genesi ad litteram, xi. 13 (Migne, xxxiv. 436). Footnote 232: Eccl. xiv. 8, but the Vulg. has “lividi.” Footnote 233: No, MS.; ne soyes pas lonc ne prolice, H. Footnote 234: For, MS. Footnote 235: _Sc._ the eye of Polyphemus. Footnote 236: Bedeisus, MS.; no doubt a corruption of “_Bede sur_ les Prouerbes,” H. The reference is apparently to Bede’s Expositio super Parabolas, ii. 20 (Migne, xci. 995). Footnote 237: Prov. xxi. 5. Footnote 238: _Sc._ frogs. This story of Latona is from Ovid, Met. vi. 313 sq. Footnote 239: Cuidoit, H. Footnote 240: Palu, H; maresse, Wyer. Footnote 241: Perhaps in error for St. Bernard, Liber de modo bene vivendi, xliv. (Migne, clxxxiv. 1266). Footnote 242: Eccl. xiv. 9. Footnote 243: _Sc._ manners; car ses condicions sont ordes, H. Footnote 244: _Sc._ Hippocrates, whose “dictum” was that “sanitas consistit .... non in replendo corpus cibis et potibus” (Add. MS. 16,906, f. 11). Footnote 245: