Chaucerian and Other Pieces / Being a Supplement to the Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

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That out of povert roos to heigh noblesse.'

And Chaucer found it in Valerius Maximus, iii. 4; see vol. v. p. 320.

168. From Chaucer, Monkes Tale, B 3862. But it may be doubted if Caesar's alleged poverty is an historical fact. Cf. p. 24, l. 128 (above).

174. Read the story of Nero in the Monkes Tale, B 3653; that of Balthasar (Belshazzar) in the same, B 3373; and that of Antiochus in the same, B 3765. Compare the lines in B 3800-1:—

'For he so sore fil out of his char

That it his limes and his skin to-tar.'

187. 'I should be sorry, if ye choose amiss.'

[VIII. JOHN LYDGATE; COMPLAINT OF THE BLACK KNIGHT.]

There are some excellent notes relative to this poem in Schick's edition of Lydgate's Temple of Glas (E. E. T. S.); I refer to them below as 'Schick, T. G.'