[93]. Yow list, it pleases you. List = listeth; cf. note to l. 85.
[97]. 'But why said I that we should give credence?' See ll. 10, 20.
In the A-text (l. [81]) But wherfor is used differently, and means—'But the reason why,' &c.
[100]. Seen at eye, see evidently. So in the Can. Yem. Tale, G 1059. Cf. fair at yë, fair to the sight, id. G 964; Cler. Tale, E 1168. The promise made in l. 101 was not fulfilled.
[103]. Besy gost, active spirit. Thrusteth, thirsteth.
[105]. Gledy, glowing; an adj. formed from gleed, a glowing coal. I know of no other example of this word. The compound adj. gled-read, glede-red, i.e. red as a glowing coal, occurs in O. Eng. Homilies, ed. Morris, i. 249.
[108]. The first of May was a favourite time for joyful observances. See note to Kn. Tale, A 1500.
[109]. Dredful, timid, timorous; as in Kn. Tale, A 1479.
[112]. Agayn, against, towards, turned towards; as in l. 48.
[113]. The beste, i.e. the Bull, the sign Taurus. Agenores doghter is Europa, daughter of Agenor of Phœnicia, who, according to the fable, was carried off by Jupiter in the form of a bull. Hence Ovid uses the expression 'Agenoreus bos,' Fast. vi. 712; and calls Europa 'Agenore nata,' Met. ii. 858. For the story, see the latter reference.