The fable was that for seven days before and after the winter solstice, when the Halcyon was breeding, the sea remained calm. Footnote 473: See the “Dis des Philosophes” (Roy. MS. 19 B. iv. f. 60). Footnote 474: Prov. iii. 21, 22. Footnote 475: _Sc._ Trust. Footnote 476: Hesione, whom Hercules rescued when she was exposed by command of an oracle to be devoured by a sea monster, and whom he gave to Telamon Ajax on being defrauded of his promised reward by her father Laomedon (Ovid, Met. xi. 211). Footnote 477: Thelamon Ayaulx, H. Footnote 478: _Sc._ through. Footnote 479: Væ tibi, terra, cujus rex puer est, Vulg. (Eccles x. 16). Footnote 480: Plus moleste, H. Footnote 481: Sap. x. 5. Footnote 482: Et empires, H. Footnote 483: Calchas was not a Trojan, but a son of Thestor of Mycenæ or Megara and the foremost soothsayer on the Greek side. Christine de Pisan or her authority seems to have misunderstood Dares Phrygius, ch. 15. Footnote 484: _Sc._ Apollo; Apollin, H. Footnote 485: _Sc._ subtle. Footnote 486: 2 Tim. iii. 2, 4, with omissions. Footnote 487: _Sc._ Hermaphroditus (Ovid, Met. iv. 285 sq). Footnote 488: A Hermofrodicus te mire, H. Footnote 489: The nymph of the well Salmacis; vne nimphe, H. Footnote 490: A la fontaine de Salmacis, H. Footnote 491: Lui prist talent de soy baigner, H. Footnote 492: _Sc._ sexes; qui ii. sexes auoit, H. Footnote 493: Darquemie, _sc._ alchemy, H. Footnote 494: Ghadely, MS. Footnote 495: Leurs ficcions, H. Footnote 496: Men, MS. Footnote 497: Isai. xxxv. 3. Footnote 498: Yen (_sc._ eyes) of yowre, MS. Footnote 499: Lenterine face, H. (enterin, _sc._ entier, complet, Godefroy, _s.v._). Footnote 500: _Sc._ how much. Footnote 501: La pouons nous veoir nostre bel, la pouons nous veoir nostre lait, la pouons nous veoir combien nous prouffitons et combien nous sommes loings de prouffiter, H. Footnote 502: Joh. v. 39. Footnote 503: Gard toy Briseyda nacointier, H. The change is probably due to Chaucer’s “Troylus and Cryseyde.” Footnote 504: Cointe et vague et attrayant, H. Footnote 505: Of the, MS. Footnote 506: _Sc._ wholly?; du tout, H. Footnote 507: 1 Cor. i. 31. Footnote 508: _Sc._ two. Footnote 509: Or, MS. The passage is confused, _cf._ que tout homme qui a occis ou meffait au loyal compaignon dun autre que le compaignon en fera la vengence, H. Footnote 510: Madarge, H.; Magdargis, Add. MS. 16,906, f. 55b; Macdarge, Roy. MS. 19 B. iv. f. 65. The “dit” as given by G. de Tignonville in the last-named MS. is “En quelque lieu que tu soyes auecques ton enmemi .... fay touz iours bon guet; ia soit ce que tu soyes le plus fort et plus puissant, si doys tu trauaillier a faire la paix.” Footnote 511: _Sc._ though. Footnote 512: _Sc._ ought. Footnote 513: This is not among Solon’s sayings in the “Dis des Philosophes.”