Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

'Vte of thair handes son he stert

And gaue a braid sa fers and fast,

That all the bandes of him brast.'

See Braid in the New E. Dictionary.

[1170-81]. From Vergil's Æn. iv. 9-29.

[1174]. 'And eke so likely to be a hero.' Man is here used emphatically; cf. 'quam forti pectore et armis'; iv. 11.

[1182, 3]. Cf. Æn. iv. 31-53; but Chaucer cuts it short.

[1187]. Love (A.S. lufu) is here monosyllabic; cf. Kn. Ta., A 1135. 'Love desires (to have) love; for no one will it desist.' Cf. A.S. wandian, to turn aside, blench, fear. And see wol, in l. 1191.

[1188-1211]. From Æn. iv. 129-159.

[1191]. An hunting, on hunting, a-hunting. Here an is another form of the prep. on, and hunting is a substantive, like Lat. uenatio. See Skeat, Principles of Eng. Etymology, Ser. 1, p. 260.