118-119. Expanded from—'uolant enim dies rapidi.'
121. still as stoon; Latin text, 'tacita.' Cf. F. 171.
129. we wol chese yow, we will choose for you.
147. Ther, where. This line is Chaucer's own.
157. Bountee, goodness. streen, race, stock. Petrarch has—'Quicquid in homine boni est, non ab alio quam a Deo est.'
168. As, as if. This line, in Petrarch, comes after l. 173. Lines 174, 175 are Chaucer's own.
172. as ever, &c., as ever I may thrive, as I hope to thrive.
190-196. Expanded from—'Et ipse nihilominus eam ipsam nuptiarum curam domesticis suis imposuit, edixitque diem.'
197-203. Expanded from—'Fuit haud procul a palatio uillula paucorum atque inopum incolarum.'
211-217. Sometimes Chaucer translates literally, and sometimes he merely paraphrases, as here. Lines 215-217 are all his own.