Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 — Notes to the Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

E le Paure pallide in quel loco.'

But Chaucer follows Statius still more closely. Ll. 1195-2012 answer to Theb. vii. 48-53:—

—'caecumque Nefas, Iraeque rubentes,

Exsanguesque Metus, occultisque ensibus astant

Insidiae, geminumque tenens Discordia ferrum.

Innumeris strepit aula minis; tristissima Virtus

Stat medio, laetusque Furor, uultuque cruento

Mars armata sedet.'

1999. Cf. Rom. of the Rose, 7419-20.