• 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.” ↩
• Queen Dido. ↩
• Achilles, being in love with Polyxena, a daughter of Priam, went unarmed to the temple of Apollo, where he was put to death by Paris. Gower, Confessio Amantis , IV , says:⁠— “For I have herde tell also Achilles left his armes so, Both of himself and of his men, At Troie for Polixenen Upon her love when he felle, That for no chaunce that befelle Among the Grekes or up or down He wolde nought ayen the town Ben armed for the love of her.” “I know not how,” says Bacon in his “Essay on Love,” “but martial men are given to love; I think it is but as they are given to wine; for perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasure.” ↩