Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 — Boethius and Troilus

by Geoffrey Chaucer

[161]. for thou hast: 'ipsam enim mediae ueritatis notam mente fixisti.'

[163]. in that, in that thing which: 'in hoc ... quod.'

Metre 11. [2]. mis-weyes, by-paths: 'nullis ... deuiis.'

rollen and trenden: 'reuoluat.' Chaucer here uses the causal verb trenden, to revolve, answering to an A.S. form *trendan, causal of a lost verb *trindan. The E. trund-le is from the same strong verb (pp. *getrunden).

'Longosque in orbem cogat inflectens motus,

Animumque doceat quidquid extra molitur

Suis retrusum possidere thesauris.'

[7]. Cf. Troilus, iv. 200.

[8]. lighten, i.e. shine: 'Lucebit.'

[10]. Glosa. This gloss is an alternative paraphrase of all that precedes, from the beginning of the Metre.