Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 — Boethius and Troilus

by Geoffrey Chaucer

[45]. use hir maneres; rather, make the best of her conduct: 'utere moribus.' agrysest, shudderest at, dreadest.

[48]. She hath forsaken: 'Reliquit enim te, quam non relicturam nemo umquam poterit esse securus.'

[51]. The MSS. usually agree in this clause. Chaucer's gloss is due to an obscure note in MS. C., viz. 'vel quam non relictam, secundum alios libros.' Other notes occur there, but do not help us.

[68]. floor: 'intra fortunae aream.' We say 'area' or 'domain.'

[77]. amonges, at various times, from time to time, now and then; see New E. Dict., s.v. Among, B. 2.

[83]. cesede, would cease; copied in Troil. i. 848:—

'For if hir wheel stinte any-thing to torne,

Than cessed she Fortune anoon to be.'

Metre 1. [3]. Eurype, Euripus; a narrow channel, with a strong current; especially that between Boeotia and Euboea. This use of the word is here seen to be far older in English than the quotation from Holland's Pliny in the New E. Dict.

[8]. so hard: 'Ultroque gemitus, dura quos fecit, ridet.'