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Book V. 810. To gon y-tressed, &c. Perhaps suggested by the remark in Guido

(Book XIX) that Cressid's hair was unbound in her hour of deepest

sorrow:--'aureos crines suos a lege ligaminis absolutos a lactea sui

capitis cute diuellit.' Cf. IV. 736.