Compare this passage with the long dialogue between Troilus and Pandarus,
in the latter part of the first book of Troilus.
568. Alluding to Ovid's Remedia Amoris. Accent _remédies_ on the second
syllable.
569. The story of Orpheus is in Ovid's Metamorphoses, bk. x. The allusion
is to the harp of Orpheus, at the sound of which the tortured had rest. Cf.
Ho. of Fame, 1202:--
'To tyre on Titius growing hart the gredy Grype forbeares:
The shunning water Tantalus endeuereth not to drink;
And Danaus daughters ceast to fil their tubs that haue no brink.
Ixions wheel stood still: and downe sate Sisyphus vpon
His rolling stone.'--GOLDING'S Ovid, fol. 120.
570. Cf. Ho. of Fame, 919; Rom. Rose, 21633. Dædalus represents the
mechanician. No mechanical contrivances can help the mourner.