“A lemman had this noble champion, That highte Deianire, as fresh as May; And as thise clerkes maken mention, She hath him sent a sherte fresh and gay: Alas! this sherte, alas and wala wa! Envenimed was sotilly withalle. That or that he had wered it half a day, It made his flesh all from his bones falle.”

Chiron was a son of Saturn; Pholus, of Silenus; and Nessus, of Ixion and the Cloud. ↩

Homer, Iliad , XI 832:⁠—

“Whom Chiron instructed, the most just of the Centaurs.”