'That alle women levest wolde
Be soverein of mannes love,' &c.
So also in the Marriage of Sir Gawaine, st. 28:—
—'a woman will have her will,
And this is all her cheef desire.'
1069. The scansion is—'Shold' ev'r | so foul | e dis | pará | ged be.'
1074. It is curious to note how Chaucer seems to have felt that romance-writers were constrained to describe feasts, a duty which he usually evades. Cf. A. 2197, B. 419, 1120, E. 1710, F. 278. In fact, the original business of the minstrel was to praise his lord's bounty, especially on grand occasions.
1081. So in Gower's Conf. Amantis, i. 100:—
'But as an oule fleeth by nighte
Out of all other briddes sighte,