105. See this poem of Chaucer's in vol. i. p. 392.
143. ful rage, very fierce. But I know of no other example of rage as an adjective.
146. kalends, the beginning; as in Troil. v. 1634.
150. The passage in Boethius is in Book i. met. 6. 11-15. Cf. Ch. vol. ii. p. 19.
'Nec quaeras auida manu Vernos stringere palmites,
Vuis si libeat frui: Autumno potius sua
Bacchus munera contulit.'
166. From Chaucer, Wyf of Bathes Tale, D 1165:—
'Thenketh how noble, as seith Valerius,
Was thilke Tullius Hostilius,