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

by Geoffrey Chaucer

'Vallis erat, piceis et acutâ densa cupressu,

Nomine Gargaphie, succinctae sacra Dianae.'

Ovid, Met. iii. 155, 156.

2627. Cf. the Teseide, viii. 26.

2634. Byte, cleave, cut; cf. the cognate Lat. verb findere. See ll. 2546, 2640.

2646. swerdes lengthe. Cf.

'And then he bar me sone bi strenkith

Out of my sadel my speres lenkith.'

Ywaine and Gawin, ll. 421, 2.

2675. Which a, what a, how great a.