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

[2266]. 'Or else, unless she might go to see her.'

[2270]. 'Caused his ships to be made ready.'

[2270-8]. From Ovid, Met. vi. 444-450. Chaucer next passes on to ll. 475, 483. Ll. 2288-2294 are abridged from ll. 451-471 of the Latin. Ll. 2295-2301 answer to ll. 495-501; ll. 2302-2307 to ll. 488, 489; but many touches are Chaucer's own, and he is seldom literal.

[2282]. Read lovede as lov'de; cf. preyde, 2294. This line is imitated in Kn. Ta. 338 (A 1196)—'For in this world he lovede no man so.'

[2290, 1]. 'And that there was none like her in (royal) array'; Met. vi. 451. Two so riche, twice as rich; cf. ten so wood, in l. 736.

[2308]. Cf. Ovid, Met. vi. 512.

[2312, 3]. 'If it might please her, or (even) if it might not please her.'

[2318-22]. Ovid has these images of the lamb (l. 527) and of the dove (529).

[2335]. This 'castle' answers to Ovid's 'custodia' (572).

[2340]. 'God avenge thee, and grant thee thy petition (for vengeance).'