INDEX TO THE NOTES

abaissht, iv. 1330.
abeche, vi. 709.
accidence, ii. 3210.
Achelons, iv. 2045.
adjective forms, P. 139, 221, 738, i. 636, 1006, 2677, ii. 2341, 3507, iv. 1320, 2624, vii. 4245.
aftercast, iv. 904.
a game, viii. 2319.
Alanus de Insulis, viii. 2341.
Albertus Magnus, v. 6498:
see also Speculum Astronomiae.
Albumasar, vii. 283, 989, 1239.
alchemy, terms of, iv. 2462 ff.
Alexander, Historia de Preliis, v. 1453, 1571, 2543, vi. 1789 ff.,
Romance of, vi. 1789 ff.,
see also Roman de toute Chevalerie.
Alfraganus, vii. 1461.
algorisme, vii. 155.
Almagest, vii. 983, 1449.
‘along on,’ iv. 624.
amaied, i. 2030.
anacoluthon, i. 98, iii. 1593, vi. 1798, vii. 5254.
‘and,’ position of, P. 155, v. 2815.
Andreas Capellanus, iv. 1245.
Antoninus Pius, vii. 4181.
a place, a doun, &c., i. 2377.
Apollonius of Tyre, Historia, viii. 271-1681.
appende, vii. 978.
applied, i. 577.
archdeacon’s court, P. 407.
arechen, v. 1826.
ariste, iv. 1285.
Aristotle, vi. 663, vii. 1, 265, 334 ff., 611.
article, use of, P. 72.
‘as he which,’ &c., i. 695, ii. 785.
‘as to,’ ‘as forto,’ i. 713.
asp, i. 463 (with Addenda).
assise, i. 3050.
assub, vii. 334.
asterte, iii. 626.
astraied, vii. 2660.
‘at after,’ vi. 1831.
Augustine, i. 463, iii. 2363, vi. 2368.
Avian’s Fables as authority, ii. 291.
Avicen, iv. 2610.
‘away,’ v. 7179.
Ayenbite of Inwyt, vi. 785.
Babio (comedy), v. 4808.
baillie, P. 220.
balke, iii. 515.
Barbour’s Bruce, viii. 1393.
Barlaam et Josaphat, i. 2021, v. 729 ff., 2273.
believe, viii. 2500.
Benoît de Sainte-More as authority, i. 483, 1077, iii. 973 ff., 1757, 1885 ff., 2639 ff., iv. 1693, 2135, v. 1831, 2547, 3247 ff., 6435, 7195 ff., 7591, vi. 1391 ff.
beseie, besein, viii. 1617.
beteche, vi. 2411.
‘betwen hem two,’ &c., ii. 653, v. 5025.
bewar, iii. 1496, v. 7838.
Bible as authority, P. 881, i. 2785, iv. 1505, 1935, 2325, 2342, v. 1930, 1952, vi. 986, vii. 1783 ff., 2527, 3149*, 3627, 3820, 3860, 3891, 4027, 4406, 4469, 5307.
bidde, biede, bede, v. 4455.
blanche fievere, vi. 239.
blesse, v. 5022.
Boccaccio, i. 389, 2316, ii. 2451, iii. 2555, v. 2273.
Boethius quoted, P. 567, false reference, ii. 261.
Bohemian fashions, viii. 2470.
Boniface VIII, legend of, ii. 2803.
bord, iv. 1741.
bot (= beyond), vii. 694.
Bromyard, Summa Praedicantium, ii. 83, vii. 2355.
Brunetto Latini as authority, P. 745
(Addenda), i. 463
(Addenda), vii. 1-725, 1595 ff., 2115, 3054, 3387.
brygantaille, P. 212.
burel, P. 52.
Burley, De Vita Philosophorum, iii. 1201.
byme (= by me), i. 232.
Caecilius Balbus quoted as Seneca, v. 7736.
Callisthenes, vi. 2274.
‘cam ride,’ i. 350.
Canahim, vii. 566.
capital letters, use of, iii. 1158, iv. 1285, viii. 1285.
Capitolinus, vii. 4181.
Caracalla, vii. 4574.
Catiline, debate on the conspiracy, vii. 1595 ff.
‘cause of,’ P. 905.
champartie, iii. 1173.
‘chase’ at tennis, PP. 295.
Chaucer and Gower, i. 1407 ff., ii. 587 ff., 2451, iii. 143, 1331, iv. 104, 731, 2927, v. 3247, 5231, 5551 ff., vii. 4754, 5131, 7597, viii. 2450, 2573, 2955*.
Chaunces of the Dyse, iv. 2792.
cherry fair (or feast), P. 454, vi. 891.
cheste, iii. 417.
Cicero (Cithero), not identified with Tullius, iv. 2648, vii. 1595.
cit, P. 836.
Civile, ii. 83.
‘coat for the hood,’ v. 4787, 7716.
Colchos, Isle of, v. 3509.
Comestor, Petrus, iv. 647, vii. 3417.
‘common voice,’ P. 122.
conjunctions, position of, P. 155.
conscience, i. 595.
consecutive clauses, i. 492.
conseil, v. 3904.
contenance, i. 698.
contretaile, viii. 3102*.
‘cope (coupe) of hevene,’ vii. 534.
crok, vii. 2268.
‘cross and pile,’ ii. 390.
‘curry favel,’ i. Lat. Verses, x. 5.
Daaly, vii. 351.
‘danger,’ i. 2443.
Dante, ii. 3095, iv. 2200, 2208.
definite form of adjectives, P. 221, ii. 2341, vii. 4245,
before proper names, P. 139.
demonstrative for definite article, P. 900, ii. 317.
depos, ii. 1757.
descryve, vi. 1110.
deserve, PP. 278.
digressions, v. 729.
Dindymus, Didymus, iv. 2641.
disorder of clauses, P. 34*, i. 2078, ii. 709, iv. 242, 3520.
‘do wey,’ vii. 5408.
dom, viii. 2113.
‘doute,’ ‘hem stant no doute,’ ii. 2124.
due, vii. 4195.
Eges, vii. 351.
elision before ‘have,’ i. 2398.
elision never prevented by caesura, PP. 356.
elision-apocope, P. 683, vi. 2062, viii. 2165.
Emaré, ii. 1300.
enbrace, i. 431.
entame, i. 709.
Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum, v. 6398.
erasures in Fairfax MS., i. 2713, ii. 594, iii. 2346, iv. 1245 (end), vi. 1359, viii. 2938.
errors of original copyists, i. 2410, ii. 833, 1020, 1778, 2537, iii. 1065, iv. 2973, v. 4251, vii. 2698 (margin).
eschu, v. 4748.
‘-eth’ termination of plural verb, vii. 536.
Etna, fire of, P. 329, ii. 20.
‘evel’ in the metre, v. 519.
‘exaltation’ of planets, vii. 1085 ff.
‘excuse,’ i. 733.
exponde, P. 823.
Fa crere, ii. 2122.
faie, i. 2317.
‘fall’ of planets, vii. 1135 ff.
fatalism of Gower, i. 1714, iii. 352, vi. 995.
fawht, pret., v. 5360.
felawe, P. 795.
feminine forms of substantives, i. 1006,
of adjectives, i. 636, 1006, 2677, ii. 3507.
ferke, viii. 603.
fet, viii. 2415.
fieldwode, v. 4039.
finde, vi. 632.
‘for an ende,’ viii. 1219.
‘for pure abaissht,’ ‘for wroth,’ &c., iv. 1330, vi. 1696.
fore, iv. 1723.
forebode, v. 6053.
‘forwhy and,’ ii. 2025.
French plural adjective, P. 738,
fem. adj. i. 636, 1006, 2677, ii. 3507, iv. 2624.
Froissart, iv. 3438, viii. 2450.
Fulgentius as authority, v. 363, 1520, vii. 853.
Galahot, viii. 2505.
Garland, see Hortulanus.
Geber, iv. 2608.
genitive for adjective, v. 3533, viii. 1374.
Genius, i. 196:
cp. Vox Clamantis, iv. 587 ff.
‘gentilesse,’ iv. 2200.
geomancy, vi. 1295.
Gesta Romanorum, iii. 1201, v. 2391, 7105*, vii. 2061, 2355, 2889, 2917, 3295;
not used by Gower, vii. 2061.
Geta of Vitalis Blesensis, ii. 2459 (Addenda).
‘goddeshalf,’ v. 4452.
Godfrey of Viterbo as authority, i. 2459, iv. 647, 2396 ff., v. 1541 ff., vii. 2765, 2833, 3144, 3295, 4181, 4335, 4574, viii. 271, 679, 1311, 1567.
gold laid on the book, v. 558.
Gregory cited, P. 289, 945, v. 1756, 1900.
grein, vi. 770.
grisel, viii. 2407.
Grosteste, legend of, iv. 234.
Guido di Colonna (or delle Colonne), iii. 2639;
also referred to, i. 483, 1077, iii. 973 ff., 1757, 1885 ff., v. 3247 ff., 7195, vi. 1391 ff.
‘had’ for ‘hadde,’ i. 2569.
‘hadde I wist,’ iv. 305.
Hampole referred to, viii. 2833.
hapne, v. 7830.
hed, ii. 2066.
‘of hed,’ iv. 3438.
Hegesippus as authority, i. 761, 940.
hepe, v. 2872.
heraldie, ii. 399.
Hermes (Trismegistus), iv. 2410, 2606,
as authority, vii. 1281 ff.
‘heved’ in the metre, i. 1536.
hevenly, hevenely, v. 774.
‘hire’ in the metre, i. 367.
‘his oghne (hondes, &c.),’ i. 1427, ii. 3260.
Hoccleve, vii. 2061, 2416, 2889, 3295.
Homer, vi. 330.
homward, i. 938, iii. 2451.
Horace, false references to, vi. 1513, vii. 3581.
hors (pl.), iv. 1309.
horse side, &c., P. 1085.
horses of the sun, vii. 853.
Hortulanus, iv. 2533, 2609.
‘houses’ in astrology, vii. 991 ff.
Hugh of Fleury, viii. 2573.
Hyginus, ii. 2451, iii. 973, iv. 1815, v. 363, 4251, 5231 ff., 6435, vi. 399.
‘-ie’ termination, P. 299, 323, ii. 905.
‘if,’ interrogative, ii. 11.
imperative, 2nd pers. for 3rd, P. 550, viii. 1128,
sing. and plur., iv. 1432, v. 3986, 7372.
incest, iii. 172, viii. 158.
infinitive (Latin) as noun, P. Lat. Verses, iv. 4.
intelligences, vii. 26.
intersticion, vii. 283.
inverted order, i. 833, ii. 2642.
Jerome, iii. 641, v. 6359.
jeupartie, iii. 1173, vii. 3217.
Joachim (Abbot), ii. 3056.
John, ‘Seint John to borwe,’ v. 3416.
joutes, vii. 2279.
Justin, ii. 1613, vii. 2917, 3417.
Justinian II, vii. 3267.
Juvenal quoted, vii. 3581.
Kaire, ii. 2558.
Langharet, ii. 2995.
lapwing, v. 6041.
Latini, see Brunetto Latini.
Lay d’Aristote, viii. 2705.
Legenda Aurea, ii. 3187 ff.
‘leng the lasse,’ viii. 2055.
lere, i. 1509.
leste, adv. i. 3296.
lete, i. 3365, iv. 453.
‘lete by,’ ‘let of,’ v. 1004, 5840.
letters of request, P. 207.
Livy, vii. 5093, 5131.
loke, P. 52*.
Lombards, ii. 2098.
love (= luff), v. 7048.
Lydgate, i. 1129, 1917, 2443, iii. 143, iv. 869, 1330, 2533.
Macer, vi. 1408.
maintenue, viii. 3012.
Malebouche, ii. 389.
‘in manere,’ vii. 2132.
‘many,’ ii. 447.
Matthew Paris, v. 4937.
‘men,’ vi. 321.
menable, i. 1067.
merel, P. 430.
Methodius as authority, viii. 48, 62.
mi, min, iv. 3159.
microcosm, P. 947.
miht, mihte, iii. 1356.
mile, viii. 2312.
Mirour de l’Omme, P. 16, 54, 122, 204, 212, 323, 407, 430, 480, 823, 836, 900, 910, 945 ff., 1066, i. 10, 299, 463, 492, 636, 695, 709, 718, 1006, 1067, 1354, 1676, 2677, 2703, 3067, 3308, ii. 20, 83, 389, 401, 413, 2098, 2430, 3095, 3122, 3507, iii. 431, 585, 699, 2599, iv. 9, 60, 448, 893, 914, 1090, 1108, 1632, 2014, 2200, 2606, 2738, v. 29, 49, 249, 363, 370, 1879, 1900, 1919, 2015, 2238, 4774, 5507, 5550, 6041, 6359, 6372, 6389, 6395*, 6398, 6498, 7013, 7015*, 7105*, 7612, vi. 71, 218, 253, 770, 857, 1513, 1707, vii. 978, 3137, 3144, 3161* ff., 3581, 5307, viii. 110, 158, 2931, 3012.
mistime, iii. 2458, vi. 4.
Morien, iv. 2609.
moste, viii. 395.
mote, viii. 640.
‘Namplus,’ ‘Nauplus,’ iii. 1002.
natheles, i. 21, vii. 979.
‘nedle and ston,’ vi. 1422.
newe, P. 92*.
‘Nonarcigne,’ v. 1009.
Norwich, bishop of, P. 268.
Octovien, gold of, v. 4731.
‘of hed,’ iv. 3438.
‘of this lif,’ &c., iv. 3414.
‘offering,’ v. 7140.
oil, vii. 2194.
old, olde, iii. 782.
omission of pronoun subject, P. 676, i. 1895, vi. 34;
of relative, i. 10;
of negative, ii. 2423, iii. 78.
‘on the ferste,’ &c., iv. 2606.
‘onwrong,’ P. 65*.
oppose, i. 225.
‘Orbis,’ vii. 611.
order of words, P. 155, 905, i. 833, ii. 2642,
of clauses, P. 34*, i. 2078, ii. 709.
Ormulum, viii. 2833.
Orosius, ii. 1613, vii. 3417, 4574.
orthography, P. 24*, 252, 550, 702, iv. 2123, v. 5215, 5248, vii. 3418, viii. 484, 2938, PP. (p. 552).
other, othre, i. 116.
outwith, viii. 2833.
overhippe, v. 2004.
Ovid as authority, P. 1055, i. 333, 389, 2275 ff., ii. 104, 2157, 2451, iii. 143 ff., 361, 736, 783, 818, 1331, 1685, iv. 77, 104, 147, 371, 451, 731 ff., 816, 979, 1035, 1901, 2045, 2927 ff., 3187, 3317, 3515 ff., v. 141 ff., 635, 1009, 3927 ff., 4583, 5231, 5551 ff., 6145 ff., 6225 ff., 6713 ff., 6807, vi. 485, 1445, 1513, vii. 3355, 4593 ff., 4754 ff.
‘owl on stock,’ iii. 585.
Pantheon, see Godfrey of Viterbo.
par, per, i. 2049.
paragraphs in the MSS., ii. 2451, v. 1323.
pars, v. 4774.
participle absolute, ii. 752, 791, 1723.
participle for infinitive, i. 3153, iv. 249, 816.
participle inflected as predicate, i. 3246.
Paulus Diaconus, i. 2459.
Paulus Langius, ii. 2803.
peace with France, P. 162.
‘peace with honour,’ PP. 157.
peacock, v. 6498.
‘peire of bedes,’ viii. 2904.
Pericles, Prince of Tyre, viii. 271, 1534.
pernable, viii. 2931.
Physics of Aristotle, vi. 663.
‘pillars of Hercules,’ iv. 2054.
pipe, v. 95.
plight, vii. 4228.
‘poete,’ i. e. Ovid, v. 5231.
‘positive law,’ P. 247, iii. 172.
pronoun subject omitted, P. 676, i. 1895, vi. 34.
Proteus, v. 3082.
provende, P. 210.
proverbs, P. 416, i. 1293, 1917, iii. 585, v. 4787, 6526.
Pseudo, v. 1879.
punctuation, P. 809, i. 320, 1102, 2548, 2939, ii. 762, 1001 f., 1173, 1950, iii. 1394, iv. 733, 1490, 1927, 3438 (end), 3542, v. 1636, 1980, 2937, 3966; 3981, 5093, 5724, 6281, vi. 2074, vii. 2302, viii. 1101, 2713.
queinte, iv. 2314.
Ragman, viii. 2378.
Razel, vi. 1316.
relative omitted, i. 10.
reles, vi. 253.
remene, v. 6541.
repetition of line, i. 2106, iii. 352.
reprise, i. 3308, v. 4708.
rhyme, ii. 2578, 2680, iv. 453, 979, 1723, v. 3488, 3786, 6073, vi. 709, viii. 1451, PP. 150.
Richard II, viii. 2991*.
riddles, viii. 405, 1681.
Rishanger’s Chronicle, ii. 2803.
Robert of Geneva, P. 196.
Roman de la Rose, P. 945, i. 196, 213, 2443, ii. 389, iii. 1158, iv. 2200, 2421, 2901, vi. 330, vii. 5131.
Roman de toute Chevalerie as authority, vi. 1789 ff.
Roman des Sept Sages as authority, v. 2031, 2643.
Roman de Troie, see Benoît de Sainte-More.
‘Romance of Alexander,’ (English), vi. 1789 ff.
Romance of Ydoine and Amadas, vi. 879.
rote, vi. 1312.
schapthe, vi. 785.
scomerfare, viii. 1391.
sea terms, iv. 1741, v. 7048.
Secretum Secretorum, iv. 2533, v. 6498, vi. 663, vii. 1, 1706, 2017, 2031 ff., 3207*, 4559.
see, PP. 382.
sein (= seen), i. 2883.
sende (pret.), P. 1013.
Seneca, vii. 2061,
false references to, ii. 3095, v. 7736.
sete, vii. 2864.
sett, viii. 2095.
Silvester, legend of, ii. 3187.
Simon Magus, P. 204.
‘slake a riff,’ viii. 1983.
slyke, v. 6634.
sojorned, vi. 1180.
solein, iv. 448.
som, P. 529.
Sortes, viii. 2718.
soth, sothe, P. 850.
Speculum Astronomiae as authority, vi. 1306 ff., vii. 1449.
Speculum Stultorum, v. 4937 ff.
‘Spertachus,’ vii. 3417 ff.
stars, names of, vii. 1281, 1329 ff.
Statius as authority, i. 1980, iv. 1968, v. 2961 ff.
statue, P. 891.
stature, vi. 1524.
‘stones’ of alchemy, iv. 2533.
‘strong thing,’ v. 7377.
subjunctive in indirect speech. P. 41, i. 532, iii. 708;
with ‘who that,’ &c., P. 460, iv. 1096, v. 2677.
‘Supplication,’ viii. 2217.
supposeth (impers.), v. 22.
symbolism of Gower, i. 2355, ii. 196, v. 5943.
syncope, P. 66*, 152, v. 519.
‘Synon,’ ‘Symon,’ i. 1172.
take, P. 54.
‘tale and ende,’ v. 5670.
Tantalus, punishment of, v. 363.
‘testament of love,’ viii. 2955*.
‘that,’ v. 899,
‘that I arise,’ &c., iv. 3273, v. 3422,
‘that I ne hadde,’ &c., iv. 1422,
‘that ... ne betre (more, &c.),’ i. 718, ii. 1423.
‘the,’ use of, P. 72, 116.
Thebith, vi. 1321.
thenken, thinken, i. 2684.
‘ther,’ i. 987.
Tiberius Constantinus, ii. 590.
tire, vi. 817.
‘to,’ use of, v. 5724,
‘to loke,’ &c., P. 133,
‘to’ after ‘mai,’ ‘myhte,’ ‘mote,’ ii. 510, vii. 437, viii. 640.
‘he to go,’ viii. 1393.
tome (= to me), i. 232.
tome (subst.), ii. 2680.
topseilcole, viii. 1890.
‘toward,’ v. 6757, viii. 2077.
Trésor, see Brunetto Latini.
Trevisa’s Polychronicon, vii. 2194.
Trivet as authority, ii. 587.
‘Troian,’ vii. 3144.
Tullius, iv. 2648, vii. 1595.
tyh (pret.), v. 5709.
u and v, vii. 5390.
‘under the gore,’ &c., v. 5730, 6680.
unskilfully, vii. 4757.
unwar, vi. 1262.
Valerii Epistola ad Rufinum, v. 6398 f.
Valerius Maximus, ii. 1613, vii. 2217, 2783, 2845, 2889, 3181, 3215.
Valerius, Res Gestae Alexandri vi. 1789 ff.
‘vernage,’ vi. 218.
vers, vi. 70.
Vincent of Beauvais, i. 761, ii. 1613, iii. 1201, vii. 283, 989, viii. 2573.
Virgil, legends of, v. 2031, viii. 2714.
Vita Iohannis Eleemosynarii, vii. 2416.
Vox Clamantis, P. 207, 247, 268, 305, 407, 945, 947, i. 718, v. 1879, 1900, 4937, viii. 2212, PP. 157 and p. 554.
Walsingham’s Chronicle, iv. 3438.
‘was,’ viii. 2435.
Weddynge of Sir Gawene, i. 1407 ff.
weer, P. 143.
what (subst.), i. 1676.
‘what’ (= whatever), P. 69*.
‘whi ne were it,’ iv. 2855.
‘whiche’ in the metre, i. 2769.
‘who that,’ P. 13.
William of Malmesbury, v. 4731.
‘Wit and Will,’ iii. 1158.
‘with,’ use of, i. 452, v. 6757, vii. 3359.
‘with al,’ vi. 1707.
wool, iv. 2895.
world, P. 383, iii. 626.
ydel, v. 4724.
‘yit’ used redundantly, vi. 311, 2418.
Ylem, vii. 216.
Zoroaster, vi. 2368.

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