69. Love of steel: love as true as steel.

70. Pandarus, as it repeatedly appears, was an unsucsessful

lover.

71. “Each for his virtue holden is full dear,

Both heroner, and falcon for rivere”:—

That is, each is esteemed for a special virtue or faculty, as the

large gerfalcon for the chase of heron, the smaller goshawk for

the chase of river fowl.

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