text:  But if as has been guessed the first and noblest of the Three Tercels that woo the "formell eagle " in the Assemblee of Foules be the same John of Gaunt wooing the same Blanche here would be two varieties of allegory--the disguising of particular persons and events and the veiling of human actions and passions under the semblance of the inferior kinds--mixed in this part of the poem which in as much as it also introduces wholly ideal personages would if the key to the enigma has been truly found very fully exemplify the allegorizing genius of the old poetry