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

[1289]. Shapeth him, intends, purposes. See Prologue, 772.

[1295]. 'Me patris Anchisae ... Admonet ... imago'; iv. 351.

[1297]. Mercurie, Mercury; 'interpres Divûm'; iv. 356.

[1305]. What womman, what sort of a woman.

[1310]. Seketh halwes, repairs to saints' shrines; a curious medieval touch. Vergil only mentions the sacrifice; iv. 453. Cf. Prologue, 14, and the note. 'To go seken halwes'; C. T. (Wyf of Bathes Prol.), D 657.

[1312, 3]. 'Si pudet uxoris, non nupta, sed hospita dicar,' &c.; Ovid, Her. vii. 167.

[1316]. Cf. 'Sed neque fers tecum'; Her. vii. 79.

[1317]. Thise lordes; 'Nomadumque tyranni'; Æn. iv. 320. Also Pygmalion and Iarbas, id. 325, 6.

[1324]. The former syllable of Mercy forms the first foot in the line; cf. l. 1342. 'Have pitee on my sorwes smerte!' Ho. Fame, 316; which see.

[1331]. Lavyne, Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus; Æn. vii. 359.