[1677]. poeplish; Boccaccio (Fil. iv. st. 165) has popolesco, which Rossetti translates by 'low-bred.' Florio's Ital. Dict. has: 'popolesco, popular, of the common people.'
[1682]. fórtun-è is trisyllabic.
BOOK V.
The following sketch gives a general notion of the relation of this Book to the Filostrato, though Chaucer often amplifies and transposes the material in a way that it would be tedious to particularise more minutely.
| Troilus: Book V. | Filostrato. |
| ll. 1-7. | [Teseide, Bk. ix. st. 1.] |
| 8-14. | [Teseide, Bk. ii. st. 1.] |
| 15-91. | [Teseide, Bk. v. st. 1-13. |
| 190-266. | Teseide, Bk."v. 14-21, 24-28. |
| 280-295. | Teseide, Bk."v. 22. |
| 323-336, 351-372. | Teseide, Bk."v. 29-32. |
| 386-686. | Teseide, Bk."v. 33-38, 40-62, 67-71. |
| 687-693. | [Teseide, Bk. vi. 1 (ll. 1-3), 6. |
| 708-777. | Teseide, Bk."vi. 1 (l. 4)-8. |
| 785-798, 820. | Teseide, Bk."vi. 10, 11. |
| 799-805, 817. | Teseide, Bk."vi. 33; Bk. i. 28 (l. 8). |
| 841-1001. | Teseide, Bk."vi. 9, 11-31. |
| 1100-1274. | [Teseide, Bk. vii. 1-33. |
| 1275-1309. | Teseide, Bk. "ii. 37, 40-43, 48-50. |
| 1310-1327. | Teseide, Bk. "ii. 51, 52. |
| 1335, 1336. | Teseide, Bk. "ii. 74 (ll. 7, 8). |
| 1338-1421. | Teseide, Bk. "ii. 53-75. |
| 1422-1444. | Teseide, Bk. "ii. 76, 105, 77, 76. |
| 1450-1456. | Teseide, Bk. "ii. 84, 26. |
| 1513-1521. | Teseide, Bk. "ii. 27, 90. |
| 1523-1554. | Teseide, Bk. "ii. 100-102, 104, 106. |
| 1555-1589. | [Teseide, Bk. viii. 1-5. |
| 1632-1701. | Teseide, Bk. "iii. 6-15. |
| 1702-1768. | Teseide, Bk. "iii. 21, 17, 19-26. |
| 1800-1806. | Teseide, Bk. "iii. 27. |
| 1807-1827. | [Teseide, Bk. xi. 1-3.] |
| 1828-1841. | Teseide, Bk. "i. 28, 29. |
| 1863-1865. | [Dante, Par. xiv. 28-30.] |
[3]. Parcas, Fates; the accusative case, as usual.
[7]. Lachesis, the Fate that apportions the thread of life; often represented with the spindle, though this is properly the attribute of Clotho alone. Clotho spins, Lachesis apportions, and Atropos cuts, the thread of life. Atropos has been mentioned above; Bk. iv. 1208, 1546. Statius mentions all three in lib. iii. of his Thebaid; Clotho at l. 556, Lachesis (Lachesim putri uacuantem saecula penso) at l. 642, and Atropos at l. 68.
[8]. For golden tressed, MS. Harl. 3943 has Auricomus tressed (!). Cf. 'Sol auricomus, cingentibus Horis;' Valerius Flaccus, Argonaut. iv. 92.
[12], [13]. sone of Hecuba, Troilus; hir, Criseyde.
[15-9]. Note that ll. 15, 17 rime on -éde, with close e, but ll. 16, 18, 19 rime on -ède, with open e. Cf. Anelida, 299-307.