Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Book_ne_ (i.e. neither) before _your love_. Cf. Æn. iv. 307, 8. 329. I have no hesitation in inserting _I_ after _Agilte_, as it is absolutely required to complete the sense. Read--_Agílt' I yów_, &c. 343. Pronounce _détermínen_ (_i_ as _ee_ in _beet_). 346. Cf. Æn. iv. 321-3. 350. 'Fama, malum quo non aliud _uelocius_ ullum,' Æn. iv. 174; quoted in the margin of MSS. F. and B. 351. 'Nichil occultum quod non reueletur'; Matt. x. 26: quoted in the margin of MSS. F. and B. 355. _Seyd y-shamed be_, said to be put to shame. 359. _Eft-sones_, hereafter again. In the margin of MSS. F. and B. we here find:--'Cras poterunt turpia fieri sicut heri.' By reading _fieri turpia_, this becomes a pentameter; but it is not in Ovid, nor (I suppose) in classical Latin. 361. _Doon_, already done. _To done_, yet to be done. Cf. Book Duch. 708. 366. I read _in_ for _into_ (as in the MSS.). For similar instances, where the scribes write _into_ for _in_, see Einenkel, Streifzüge durch die Mittelengl. Syntax, p. 145. Cf. l. 147. 367. In the margin of MSS. F. and B. is an incorrect quotation of Æn. iv. 548-9:--'tu prima furentem His, germana, malis oneras.' 378. _Eneidos_; because the books are headed _Æneidos liber primus_, &c. 379. See Ovid, Heroides, Epist. vii--Dido Æneæ. 380. _Or that_, ere that, before. 381. Only Th. has the right reading, viz. _And nere it to longe to endyte_ (where _longe_ is an error for _long_). The expressions _And nor hyt were_ and _And nere it were_ are both ungrammatical. _Nere_ = _ne were_, were it not. 388. In the margin of F. and B. we find:--'Nota: of many vntrewe louers. Hospita, Demaphoon, tua te R[h]odopeia Phyllis Vltra promissum tempus abesse queror.' These are the first two lines of Epistola ii. in Ovid's _Heroides_, addressed by Phyllis to Demophoon. All the examples here given are taken from the same work. Epist. iii. is headed _Briseis Achilli_; Epist. v., _Oenone Paridi_; Epist. vi., _Hypsipyle Iasoni_; Epist. xii., _Medea Iasoni_; Epist. ix., _Deianira Herculi_; Epist. x., _Ariadne Theseo_. These names were evidently suggested by the reference above to the same work, l. 379. See the long note to Group B, l. 61, in vol. v. Demophoon, son of Theseus, was the lover of Phyllis, daughter of king Sithon in Thrace; she was changed into an almond-tree. 392. _His terme pace_, pass beyond or stay behind his appointed time. He said he would return in a month, but did not do so. See the story in The Legend of Good Women. Gower (ed. Pauli, iii. 361) alludes to her story, in a passage much like the present one; and in Le Rom. de la Rose, 13417, we have the very phrase--'Por _le terme qu'il trespassa_.' 397. In the margin of F. and B.:--'Ouidius. Quam legis a rapta Briseide litera venit'; Heroid. Ep. iii. 1. 401. In the same:--'Ut [_miswritten_ Vbi] tibi Colc[h]orum memini regina uacaui'; Heroid. Ep. xii. 1. For the accentuation of _Medea_, cf. Leg. of Good Women, 1629, 1663. 402. In the margin of F. and B.:--'Gratulor Oechaliam'; Heroid. Ep. ix. 1; but _Oechaliam_ is miswritten _yotholia_. 405. Gower also tells this story; ed. Pauli, ii. 306. 407. In F. and B. is quoted the first line of Ovid, Heroid. x. 1. _Adriane_, Ariadne; just as in Leg. Good Wom. 2171, &c., and in C. T., Group B, l. 67. Gower has _Adriagne_. 409. 'For, whether he had laughed, or whether he had frowned'; i.e. in any case. Cf. l. 98. 411. 'If it had not been for Ariadne.' We have altered the form of this idiom. 416. _Yle_, isle of Naxos; see notes to Leg. Good Wom. 2163, and C. T., Group B, l. 68 (in vol. v.). 426. _Telles_ is a Northern and West-Midland form, as in Book Duch. 73. Cf. _falles_, id. 257. A similar admixture of forms occurs in Havelok, Will. of Palerne, and other M.E. poems. 429. _The book_, i.e. Vergil; Æn. iv. 252. 434. _Go_, gone, set out; correctly used. Chaucer passes on to Æneid, bk. v. The _tempest_ is that mentioned in Æn. v. 10; the _steersman_ is Palinurus, who fell overboard; Æn. v. 860. 439. See Æn. bk. vi. The _isle_ intended is Crete, Æn. vi. 14, 23; which was not at all near (or 'besyde') Cumæ, but a long way from it. Æneas then descends to hell, where he sees Anchises (vi. 679); Palinurus (337); Dido (450); Deiphobus, son of Priam (495); and the tormented souls (580). 447. _Which_ refers to the various sights in hell. 449. _Claudian_, Claudius Claudianus, who wrote De raptu Proserpinae about A.D. 400. _Daunte_ is Dante, with reference to his Inferno, ii. 13-27, and Paradiso, xv. 25-27. 451. Chaucer goes on to Æn. vii-xii, of which he says but little. 458. _Lavyna_ is Lavinia; the form _Lavina_ occurs in Dante, Purg. xvii. 37. 468. I put _seyën_ for _seyn_, to improve the metre; cf. P. Pl. C. iv. 104. 474. 'But I do not know who caused them to be made.' 475. Read _ne in_ as _nin_; as in Squi. Tale, F 35. 482. This waste space corresponds to Dante's 'gran diserto,' Inf. i. 64; or, still better, to his 'landa' (Inf. xiv. 8), which was too sterile to support plants. So again, l. 486 corresponds to Dante's 'arena arida e spessa,' which has reference to the desert of Libya; Inf. xiv. 13. 487. 'As fine [said of the sand] as one may see still lying.' Jephson says _yet_ must be a mistake, and would read _yt_. But it makes perfect sense. Cx. Th. read _at eye_ (put for _at yë_) instead of _yet lye_, which is perhaps better. _At yë_ means 'as presented to the sight'; see Kn. Ta., A 3016. 498. _Kenne_, discern. The offing at sea has been called the _kenning_; and see _Kenning_ in Halliwell. 500. _More_, greater. Imitated from Dante, Purgat. ix. 19, which Cary translates thus:-- 'Then, in a vision, did I seem to view A golden-feather'd eagle in the sky, With open wings, and hovering for descent.' Cf. also the descent of the angel in Purg. ii. 17-24. 504-7. The omission of these lines in F. and B. is simply due to the scribe slipping from _bright_ in l. 503 to _brighte_ in l. 507. Cf. note to l. 280. BOOK II. 511. _Listeth_, pleases, is pleased; the alteration (in MS. F.) to _listeneth_ is clearly wrong, and due to confusion with _herkneth_ above. (I do not think _listeth_ is the imp. pl. here.) 514. _Isaye_, Isaiah; actually altered, in various editions, to _I saye_, as if it meant 'I say.' The reference is to 'the vision of Isaiah'; Isa. i. 1; vi. 1. _Scipioun_, Scipio; see note to Parl. Foules, 31, and cf. Book of the Duch. 284. 515. _Nabugodonosor_, Nebuchadnezzar. The same spelling occurs in the Monkes Tale (Group B, 3335), and is a mere variant of the form _Nabuchodonosor_ in the Vulgate version, Dan. i-iv. Gower has the same spelling; Conf. Amant. bk. i., near the end. 516. _Pharo_; spelt _Pharao_ in the Vulgate, Gen. xli. 1-7. See Book of the Duchesse, 280-3. _Turnus_; alluding to his vision of Iris, the messenger of Juno; Æneid ix. 6. _Elcanor_; this name somewhat resembles _Elkanah_ (in the Vulgate, _Elcana_), 1 Sam. i. 1; but I do not know where to find any account of his vision, nor do I at |