In Canto I 60, the sun is silent; here the light is dumb. ↩

Gower, Confessio Amantis , VIII , gives a similar list “of gentil folke that whilom were lovers,” seen by him as he lay in a swound and listened to the music

“Of bombarde and of clarionne

With cornemuse and shalmele.”

“Of bombarde and of clarionne With cornemuse and shalmele.”