1. Barry Windeatt, “Literary Structures in Chaucer,” in The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer, ed. Piero Boitani and Jill Mann, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 215.
2. Roy Arthur Swanson, “Ovid’s Theme of Change,” The Classical Journal 54 (1959): 201.
3. In The Book of Duchess, Chaucer avoids the physical transformation of Seix and Alcyone into seabirds: see also Elizabeth Allen, “Flowing Backward to the Source: Criseyde’s Promises and the Ethics of Allusion,” Speculum 88 (2013): 688.
4. Robert M. Longsworth, “Privileged Knowledge: St. Cecilia and the Alchemist in the Canterbury Tales,” CR 27 (1992): 87.
5. Hugh of St. Victor, The Didascalicon of Hugh of Saint Victor, trans. Jerome Taylor (New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1961), 54.