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

[137]. 'Hir dowves'; C. T., A 1962. 'Cupido'; id. 1963.

[138]. Vulcano, Vulcan; note the Italian forms of these names. Boccaccio's Teseide has Cupido (vii. 54), and Vulcano (vii. 43). His face was brown with working at the forge.

[141, 2]. Cf. Dante, Inf. iii. 10, 11.

[143]. A large portion of the rest of this First Book is taken up with a summary of the earlier part of Vergil's Aeneid. We have here a translation of the well-known opening lines:—

'Arma uirumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris

Italiam, fato profugus, Lauinia uenit

Littora.'

[147]. In, into, unto; see note to l. 366.

[152]. Synoun, Sinon; Aen. ii. 195.

[153]. I supply That, both for sense and metre.