Book XXV

) is as follows:--

'Troilus autem tunc amorem Brisaide Diomedi obprobriosis verbis improperat; set Greci Diomedem ... abstraxerunt' ...

'Interim Brisaida contra patris sui voluntatem videre Diomedem in lecto suo iacentem ex vulnere sibi facto frequenter accedit, et licet sciuisset illum a Troilo dudum dilecto suo sic vulneratum, multa tamen in mente sua reuoluit; et dum diligenter attendit de se iungenda cum Troilo nullam sibi superesse fiduciam, totum suum animum, tanquam varia et mutabilis, sicut est proprium mulierum, in Diomedis declinat amorem.'

Cf. Troy-book, ll. 9942-59; Lydgate, Siege of Troye, fol. U 4.

## Book V . 1558-60. The treacherous slaughter of Hector by Achilles is in

Guido, near the end of Book XXV . See my note to l. 1558, at p. 503.

## Book V . 1771. 'Read Dares.' This merely means that Guido cites Dares as his

authority for the mighty deeds of Troilus. In