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

[2192]. Suggested by Ovid; ll. 81-6.

[2193]. 'Reddebant nomen concaua saxa tuum'; id. 22. The Latin and English lines are alike beautiful.

[2194]. 'Luna fuit; specto, si quid, nisi littora, cernam'; id. 17.

[2195-7]. These three lines represent eight in Ovid; 25-32.

[2198]. This line answers to the first line in Ovid, Epist. x.

[2200, 1]. His meiny, its (complete) crew. Inne, within; A.S. innan.

'Quo fugis, exclamo, scelerate? Reuertere, Theseu;

flecte ratem; numerum non habet illa suum'; id. 35.

[2202].

'Candidaque imposui longae uelamina uirgae,