• Ovid, Metamorphoses , VI , Croxall’s Tr. :⁠— “When straight another pictures to their view The Satyr’s fate, whom angry Phoebus slew; Who, raised with high conceit, and puffed with pride, At his own pipe the skilful God defied. Why do you tear me from myself, he cries? Ah, cruel! must my skin be made the prize? This for a silly pipe? he roaring said, Meanwhile the skin from off his limbs was flayed.” And Chaucer, House of Fame , 139, changing the sex of Marsyas:⁠— “And Mercia that lost hire skinne, Bothe in the face, bodie, and chinne, For that she would envyen, lo! To pipen bette than Apollo.” ↩
• A town at the foot of Parnassus, dedicated to Apollo, and here used for Apollo. Chaucer, Quene Annelida and False Arcite , 15:⁠— “Be favorable eke thou, Polymnia! On Parnassus that, with thy susters glade By Helicon, and not ferre from Cirrha, Singed, with voice memoriall, in the shade Under the laurer, which that maie not fade.” ↩
• That point of the horizon where the sun rises at the equinox; and where the Equator, the Zodiac, and the equinoctial Colure meet, and form each a cross with the Horizon. ↩
• The world is as wax, which the sun softens and stamps with his seal. ↩