Book IV. 1695-1701. This last stanza is not in Boccaccio; but the general

sense of it is in Guido, Book XIX, where the interview ends thus:--'Set

diei Aurora quasi superueniente uicina, Troilus a Brisaida in multis

anxietatibus et doloribus discessit; et ea relicta ad sui palacii menia

properauit.' Lydgate, at this point, refers us to Chaucer; Siege of Troye,

fol. R 2, back. The allit. Troy-book actually does the same; l. 8054.

§ 16. Book V. 92-189. These fourteen stanzas are not in Boccaccio. The

corresponding passage in Guido (Book XIX) is as follows:--

'Troilus et Troiani redeunt, Grecis eam recipientibus in suo commeatu.

Inter quos dum esset Diomedes, et illam Diomedes inspexit, statim in ardore

veneris exarsit et eam vehementi desiderio concupiuit, qui collateralis

associando Brisaidam cum insimul equitarent, sui ardoris flammam continere

non valens Brisaide reuelat sui estuantis cordis amorem; quam in multis

affectuosis verbis et blandiciis necnon et promissionibus reuera magnificis

allicere satis humiliter est rogatus. Set Brisaida in primis monitis, vt

mulierum moris est, suum prestare recusauit assensum; nec tamen passa est

quin post multa Diomedis verba, ipsum nolens a spe sua deicere verbis

similibus dixit ei: "Amoris tui oblaciones ad presens nec repudio nec

admitto, cum cor meum non sit ad presens ita dispositum quod tibi possim

aliter respondere."'