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

[64]. 'Which, as I can (best) now remember.'

[68]. Pronounced fully:—With spé-ci-ál de-vó-ci-óun.

[69]. Morpheus; see Book of Duch. 137. From Ovid, Met. xi. 592-612; esp. ll. 602, 3:—

'Saxo tamen exit ab imo

Riuus aquae Lethes.'

[73]. 'Est prope Cimmerios,' &c.; Met. xi. 592.

[75]. See Ovid, Met. xi. 613-5; 633.

[76]. That ... hir is equivalent to whose; cf. Kn. Tale, 1852.

[81]. Cf. 'Colui, che tutto move,' i.e. He who moves all; Parad. i. 1.

[88]. Read povért; cf. Clerkes Tale, E 816.