'Si te dirai que tu dois faire
Por l'amour de la debonnaire [_or,_ du haut seintueire]
De qui tu ne pues avoir aise;
Au departir la porte baise.'
The lover is here directed to kiss the door!
2684-6. From Ovid, Ars Amat. i. 729, 733.
2695. All from Ovid, Ars Amat. ii. 251-260.
2710. Read _fare_, short for _faren_, gone; cf. Ovid, Ars Am. ii. 357-8. A
note in Bell says--'_fore_ means absent, from the Lat. _foris_, abroad.'
This is a cool invention.
2775. _Hope_, do thou hope; imperative mood.
2824. The reading _not ben_ ruins sense and metre.
'Et se tu l'autre refusoies,
Qui n'est mie mains doucerens,
Tu seroies moult dangereus.'
2883. Such was the duty of sworn brethren; See Kn. Ta. A 1132.
2888. The trilled _r_ in _darst_ perhaps constitutes a syllable.