145. _In her hewe_, in her colours: he wore the colours which she affected.
This was a common method of shewing devotion to a lady.
146. Observe the satire in this line. Arcite is supposed to have worn
_white_, _red_, or _green_; but he did not wear _blue_, for that was the
colour of _constancy_. Cf. Squi. Tale, F 644, and the note; and see l. 330
below; also p. 409, l. 7.
150. Cf. Squi. Tale, F 550. I have elsewhere drawn attention to the
resemblance between this poem and the Squieres Tale, in my note to l. 548
of that Tale. Cf. also Cant. Tales, 5636 (D 54). The reference is to Gen.
iv. 19--'And Lamech took unto him two wives.' In l. 154, Chaucer curiously
confounds him with Jabal, Lamech's _son_, who was 'the father of such as
dwell in tents'; Gen. iv. 20.