Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 — Boethius and Troilus

by Geoffrey Chaucer

[708]. A proverb; see note to Can. Yem. Ta. G 746.

[713]. harde grace, misfortune; cf. Cant. Ta. G 665, 1189. Tyrwhitt quotes Euripides, Herc. Furens, 1250: Γέμω κακῶν δή, κὀυκέτ' ἐσθ' ὅπου τεθῇ.

[730, 731]. From Boethius, Bk. I. Pr. 2. l. 14, and Pr. 4. l. 2.

[739]. 'On whose account he fared so.'

[740]. Compare: 'He makes a rod for his own breech'; Hazlitt's Proverbs.

[745]. 'For it (love) would sufficiently spring to light of itself.'

[747]. Cf. Rom. de la Rose, 7595-6.

[763]. 'But they do not care to seek a remedy.'

[780]. Pronounced ben'cite; see note to Cant. Ta. B 1170.

[786]. Ticius, Tityos. MS. H2. wrongly has Siciphus. 'The fowl that highte voltor, that eteth the stomak or the giser of Tityus, is so fulfild of his song that it nil eten ne tyren no more;' tr. of Boeth. Bk. III. Met. 12. 28. The original has: