DULCARNON.
(Vol. i., p. 254.; Vol. v., p. 180.)
Why this word should have "set all editors of Chaucer at defiance" is not very apparent, for he himself sufficiently explains its meaning by the context. The passage in which it occurs is in Troylus and Creseyde, b. iii. 931. seq. thus:
"Creseyde answerde, As wisely God at reste
My soule bringe, as me is for him wo,
And eme, iwys, fayne wolde I dône the best,
If that I a grace had for to do so.
But whether that ye dwell, or for him go,
I am, tyl God me bettre mynde sende,
At Dulcarnon, right at my wyttes end.
"(Quod Pandarus). Ye nece! Wol ye here?