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[Footnote A:]

In The Poems of Geoffrey Chaucer Modernised. It is an extract from Troilus and Cressida, book v. ll. 518-686.—Ed.

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[Footnote B:]

"Chaucer's text is:

'And therwithalle his meynye for to blende
A cause he fonde in toune for to go.'

'His meynye for to blende,' i. e. to keep his household or his domestics in the dark. But Wordsworth writes:

'And therewithal to cover his intent,'

possibly mistaking 'meynye' for 'meaning'."

'And therwithalle his meynye for to blende
A cause he fonde in toune for to go.'

'And therewithal to cover his intent,'

(Professor Dowden, in the Transactions of the Wordsworth Society, No. III.)—Ed.