48. _Þat_, 'who'.

65. _þat... of_, 'from whom'; the later relative form _of quom_ occurs

at l. 93.

70. _Fenyx of Arraby_: the symbol of peerless perfection. Cp. Chaucer,

_Death of Blanche the Duchess_, ll. 980-3

_Trewly she was to myn ye

The soleyn Fenix of Arabye,

For ther lyveth never but oon,

Ne swich as she ne knew I noon._

71. 'which was faultless in form'; _fleȝe_ 'flew' is used with

weakened sense because a bird is normally thought of as on the wing.

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