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

[1740-3]. 'Pone metum, ueni, coniux ait. Illa reuixit.'

[1745-55]. Six lines in Ovid; ll. 761-6.

[1757]. 'Iam dederat cantus lucis praenuntius ales'; l. 767.

[1759-71]. Twelve lines in Ovid; ll. 769-80.

[1765]. Al to-shake, wholly tossed about; see l. 962.

[1771]. 'Or a wicked inclination, with malice.' 'The original meaning (as of talento in Italian, talante in Spanish) was will, inclination, from talentum (τάλαντον), balance, scales, and then inclination of balance.'—Trench, Select Glossary, s.v. Talent.

[1773]. 'Audentes Forsque deusque iuuant.' We say, 'Fortune favours the bold.' Cf. 'Audentes fortuna iuuat'; Verg. Æn. x. 284; 'Audentes deus ipse iuuat'; Ovid, Met. x. 586.

[1774]. 'Whatever the event may be, my resolve is taken.' Audebimus ultima, dixit'; l. 781.

[1775]. Girt, girdeth; pr. t. So rit, rideth, in l. 1776.

[1780]. Halke, corner, hiding-place; as in Sec. Non. Ta. G 311.