Their tale is told in the _Conf. Am._ by Gower; he expresses no horror at their incestuous passion, but remarks on the cruelty of their father, who “for he was to loue strange, He wolde not his herte change To be benigne and fauourable To loue, but vnmerciable!” B. iii. fol. xlviii. ed. 1554. (and see the lines cited in note on v. 1048. p. 324). Lydgate (_Fall of Prynces_, B. i. leaf xxxv. ed. Wayland) relates the story with a somewhat better moral feeling. Page 399. v. 935. _iwus_] Or _i-wis_ (adv.),—i. e. truly, certainly. v. 936. _Endeuoure me_] i. e. Exert myself. v. 941. _Wele_] i. e. Well. v. 942. _Intentyfe_] “_Intentyfe_ hedefull.”—“_Ententyfe_, busy to do a thynge or to take hede to a thyng.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fols. lxxxx. lxxxvii. (where both are rendered by the Fr. _ententif_). v. 948. _Perle orient_] In allusion to her Christian name just mentioned, “Margarite.” v. 949. _Lede sterre_] i. e. Load-star. v. 950. _Moche_] i. e. Much. Page 400.—— _maystres Iane Blenner-Haiset_] Perhaps a daughter of Sir Thomas Blennerhasset, who was executor (in conjunction with the Duchess) to the second Duke of Norfolk: see Sir H. Nicolas’s _Test. Vet._ ii. 604. v. 955. _smale lust_] i. e. small liking. v. 958. _prese_] i. e. press, band. v. 962. _ententifly_] See above, note on v. 942. v. 963. _stellyfye_] “I _Stellifye_ I sette vp amongest the starres.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccclxxiii. (Table of Verbes). v. 965. _ne swarue_] i. e. swerve not. v. 968. _Sith_] i. e. Since. v. 972, _Laodomi_] i. e. Laodamia. v. 975. _godely_] i. e. goodly. Page 401. v. 977. _Reflaring rosabell_] i. e. odorous fair-rose: see note, p. 134. v. 524. v. 978. _flagrant_] See note on v. 671. p. 315. v. 979. _The ruddy rosary_]—_rosary_ must mean here—rose-bush, not rose-bed. v. 981. _praty_] i. e. pretty. v. 982. _nepte_] “Cats mint or _nept_ is a kind of calamint,” &c. _The Countrie Farme_, p. 320. ed. 1600. v. 983. _ieloffer_] See note, p. 147. v. 1052. v. 984. _propre_] i. e. pretty. v. 985, _Enuwyd_] See note, p. 144. v. 775. Page 402. v. 1006. _Ientill as fawcoun_] The _Falcon gentle_, says Turbervile, is so called “for her _gentle_ and courteous condition and fashions.” _The Booke of Falconrie_, &c. p. 26. ed. 1611. v. 1007. _hawke of the towre_] See note, p. 250. v. 934. v. 1025. _fayre Isaphill_] The Hypsipyle of the ancients. “_Isiphile_ ... She that dyd _in fayrnesse so excell_.” Lydgate’s _Fall of Prynces,_ B. i. leaf xviii. ed. Wayland. She figures in the _Storye of Thebes_ by the same indefatigable versifier, who there says, “But to knowe. the auentures all Of this lady. _Isyphyle the fayre_,” (Pars tert. sig. h iiii. n. d. 4to.) we must have recourse to Boccaccio _De Claris Mulieribus_ (see that work, cap. xv. ed. 1539).