Glossary
a, have, 16, 78, 111
abaundonede, devoted, 38
a ben, been, 41
abusyon (abusion, H.), abuse, 50
accused (accusee, H.), told, reported, 52
achaunge, exchange, 91
acome, come, 50
acorde, agree, 34
acorde, agreement, 52
acordyng (couuenable, H.), fitting, proper, 15, 25
afore or, before that, 70
affrayed, terrified, 41
agre, favourably, in good part, 113
all gates, anyhow, by any means, 72, 89
all only but, except, 9
aloved (louez, H.), praised, 112
alyche (allegue, H.), allege, 12
anamely, anamly, namely, 7, 12, 17, 27, 70, 78, etc.
anggwyssous (angoisseuse, H.), full of anguish, 89
applique, apply, 8
arayed (aournez, H.), equipped, adorned, 7, 8, 23
arayeth (arroie, H.), equippeth, 6
armure, armour, 24
arwe, arrow, 56
assay (essay, H.), trial, test, 6
assot, assote, besot, make foolish, 36, 74, 106
assotted, besotted, 75
assottede of, besotted with, doting on, 28, 36
aturnyd, turned, 72
auctorised, authenticated, vouched for, 2, 4
availe, avayle, advantage, profit, 5, 12, 26, 37
aventerous, adventurous, 9
aventure, adventure, 12
avisement, reflection, counsel, 19
avowed, vowed, 109
avysyons, visions, dreams, 75, 76, 88
ayen, against, 2
ayen, ayene, again, 7, 48, 79
ayens, against, 12, 29, 32, etc.
ayens say, gainsay, 47
bachelere, bachelor, 28
bateilled, battled, fought, 22
bayle (baillif, H.), bailiff, 13
be, been, 41
beerys (ours, H.), bears, 12
befolowe, follow, 60
begone (sc. evylle b.), affected, beset, 41
behouely (couuenable, H.), proper, befitting, 8, 12, 23, 82
bellue (belue, H.), monster, 15
ben, be, 70
besy, busy, 5
boche (boce, H.), hump (of a camel), 54
bolnynges (lenfleure, H.), swellings, pride, 76
borde, table, 67
bosche (buisson, H.), bush, 53
bostus, boastful, threatening, 51
boores, boars, 12
bounte (bonte, bernage, sc. barnage, H.), goodness, nobility, 8, 11, 27, 60
brayeng, braying (de brayre, H.), croaking (of frogs), 34
brennyng, burning, 62
brent, burnt, 69, 110
brokyth (retient, H.), digests, retains (on the stomach), 55
brond (brandon, H.), brand, torch, 36
brothe, broththe (palu, H.), muddy water, 33, 34
broute, browte, brought, 12, 56, 110
bruled, broiled, burnt, 69
bryboure (lierres, sc. larron, H.), thief, robber, 41
busshmentes (embusches, H.), ambushes, 63
b[u]tyrflye (papillon, H.), butterfly, 109
carles (villains, H.), churls, rustics, 33, 34
cesse (cesser, H.), make to cease, 9
chaiere (chayere, H.), chair (of a professor), 6
chamel, chamelle, camel, 54
chelde, shield, 54, 60
chepe, sheep, 58
ches, choose, 85
chesse, the (esches, H.), game of chess, 95
chevalroures (vaillance cheualereuse, H.), chivalry, 9
cheualerous, cheualerours, chivalrous, 14, 16
cheuetayne, cheueten (cheuetaine, H.), chieftain, leader, 2, 85
chippe, ship, 56
chynnes, chains, 41
clyme (monter, H.), climb, 6, 44
communes (paysans, H.), common people, 34
communiall (communicaire, H.), sharing with others, 27
condicionned (condicionne, H.), accustomed, 85
conditoures (conduissaresse, H.), conductress, guide, 8
condittes (conduis, H.), conduits, 28
connestabil, constable, 85
connyng (sauoir, H.), knowledge, 24
contrarie, contrary, adverse, 11
contrariousnes (les contrarietez, H.), adversity, 12
contrarius, contrary, adverse, 9
conveyed (conuoye, H.), conducted, guided (of the spirit), 8
conveyng (congeement, H.), removal, expulsion, 5
copyr, copper, 17
corage, spirit, mind, 31, 84, 96
coromped, corrupted, 29
corrompeth, corrumpyth, corrupteth, 30
corumpe, to corrupt, 62
cosyn germayne, cousin german, 9, 10
coude, cowde, could, 85, 86
couertly, secretly, disguisedly, 13
couerture, disguise, concealment, 13, 19, 43, 93
couetise, covetyse, covetousness, 34, 54, 60
cowde, knew, 58
crassed (creuee, H.), cracked, 52
creues, crevesse (creueure, H.), crevice, 52, 65
cuirboyle, cuir-bouilli, boiled leather, 24
debatoure (discordant, H.), debater, quarreller, 67
deded (amortie, H.), deadened, 27
deele, dele, part, whit, 9, 35
defavtes, faults, defects, 13
defendyth, forbiddeth, 32
deme, judgment, 56
departed (departis, H.), allotted, 83
desceyvable (faillible, H.), deceitful, untrustworthy, 8
dictis, dicts, sayings, 4
diffendyth, forbidden, 28
discomfyte, discomfited, 15
discouered, uncovered, unprotected, 97, 104
discouerte, uncovered, 105
discute, discuss, 20, 62
disheryte, disinherit, 29, 30
dispite, despise, 10, 100
disportis, amusements, 34
disporveide (despourveu, H.), unprovided, 68
disprayes (despris, H.), contempt, 28
disprayse (desprisier, H.), contemn, despise, 54, 84, 87
dispraysyng (despercion, H.), contemning, despising, 59
dispreisyd, dispreysed, contemned, despised, 35, 36
dispreysyng, contemning, despising, 36
dissalowed (desloua, H.), disapproved, dissuaded, 56
dissauable, deceitful (of riches), 53
disseruede (desserui, H.), served, performed (sc. of penance), 14
dittee (dictie, H.), treatise, 8
do armes (armes... faire, H.), perform exploits, 12
dobylnesse, doubleness, duplicity, 95
doghter, daughter, 16, 31
doited (affoles, H.), doting, 69
dome, judgment, 16, 48, 68
doo, done, 14
doongon (dongion, H.), keep, castle, 110
doute (dompter, H.), conquer, 42
doutyd (doubtoit, H.), doubted, feared, 97
douted, dowted (dompta, H.), conquered, 42
doutously, doubtfully, 19
dowter, daughter, 11
dres (adrece, H.), dress, direct, apply, 5
dressyd hyr (se ficha, H.), betook herself, 66
drwe, drew, 30
drwe avay (chaca, H.), drove away, 20
dryst, durst, 44
dured, endured, lasted, 52
duryng (sc. euer d.), lasting, 6
dyffendyth, forbiddeth, 32
dyght, disposed, placed, 80
dynne, dinner, 66
dysheryted (desherita, H.), disinherited, 20
dysparbuled (se espart, H.), disparpled, divided, 57
dyspiteth (despite, H.), despiseth, 16
dyspyte (despit, H.), contempt, scorn, 40
dystres (destrece, H.), distress, 12
ell, elles, ellis, else, 12, 13, 14
embaundoned, devoted, 2
empeched (empesche, H.), hindered, injured, 90
empechest (empesches, H.), impeach, find fault with, 87
emprise, undertaking, 75, 76
enbushed, ambushed, 73
encres, increase, 38
endyte (escripre, H.), write, 6
engins (engins, H.), snares, 84
ennorted, exhorted, 64
enorte (ennorter, H.), exhort, 5
enortyng (enditement, H.), exhortation, 58
ensorgyng, grieving, 31
entent, mind, understanding, 19
eres, erys, ears, 40
errant (sc. e. knyghte), wandering, 15, 111
erryed (aree, H.), ploughed, 38
erye (arer, H.), to plough, 38
exauced, heard, granted, 18, 79
exavced (of a person praying), heard, gratified, 79
exaussyng (exaussement, H.), exalting, 12
excusacion, excuse, 87, 113
exempled, exemplified, justified, 2, 4
eyne, eyes, 44, 45
eyre, ear, 44
fardell (faissel, H.), burden, 32
fauchon (fauchon, H.), falchion, sword, 15
favth, fought, 13
fawty, faulty, 40
fayre, fayree, fayreis (nymphes, H.), fairies, 77, 81, 93
felachep, felachipe, fellowship, 16, 92
felawe, fellow, 14
feleshyp, fellowship, company, 33
felle, savage, cruel, 12
feythyt, fighteth, 65
flawe, flew, 15
fleeth (vole, H.), flyeth, 16
flotereth (flote, H.), flutters, hesitates, 22
flowrid, flourished, 3
flowte, flute, 40, 44
folely, follely, foolishly, 83, 107, 108
folwe (ensuiuir, H.), follow, 11
folwyth (sensuit, H.), followeth, 10
foly, foolish, 64, 79
fond, foonde, found, invented, 24, 25, 38, 43
fordone (amortis, H.), destroyed, done away with, 13
foryate, forgot, 68, 69, 74, 96
foryeten, forgotten, 68
froward, perverse, 93
fraudelous, deceitful, 92, 112
frele, frail, 28
frelnes, frailty, 20, 70
frosses (renoulles, H.), frogs, 33, 34
ful, fulle, very, 2, 3, 7, 12, 15
fullefyllyd (remplie, H.), filled, 9
fumerelle (sueil, H., sc. threshold), smoke-hole (in the roof), hearth, 30
fundement, foundation, 64
gaineyers, husbandmen, 38
gate, got, 11
gebet (gibet, H.), gibbet, 41
geyneseyyng (contredisans, H.), gainsaying, 21
glayve (faulx, H.), sword, 15
glewe (gluyon, H.), glue, 109
gosh, go, 47
gostly, ghostly, spiritual, 2, 3, 8, 85
grenner, greener, 31
greuaunces, evils, harm, 27
gryffes (cultiuemens, H.), grafts, shoots, 39
guerdon (subst.), reward, 58
guerdon (v.), reward, estimate properly, 50, 59
gyf, give, 19
gyrte, girded, 105
gyse, guise, 46
habaundonede, devoted, 38
halse (accoller, H.), embrace, 69
haunt, follow, devote oneself to, 70, 75, 80
hauntyng (frequentise, H.), intercourse, 52
hawteyn, haughty, proud, 27
helly (infernaulx, H.), hellish, of hell, 78
heppid (amassez, H.), heaped, 34
herdly (enterine, H.), earthly (?), 95
For “enterin,” or, as sometimes spelt, “enterrin,” see p. 95, note 2. Scrope seems to have mistaken its meaning, connecting it with “terre.”
heris, ears, 55
herres, hairs, 30
hire (loyer, H.), reward, 81
holde (sc. h. counsell), take, follow, 91
holden, held, considered, 3
holdyn, taken, followed, 91
hole and some, whole and sum, entirely, 6
holpyn, helped, 99
homely (sc. h. spyes, priuees, H.), domestic, 23
homlynes, (priuete, H.), intimacy, 92
hooges, huge, 32
hy, hye, high, 5, 7, 8, 23
hyly, highly, 6
hynes, highness, greatness, 12
iangeler (iengleur, gengleresse, H.), chatterer, prater, 57, 98
iangyllyng (gengle, H.), chattering, prating, 98
iauelot, iaueloth (glavellot, H.), dart, javelin, 86
ich, iche, each, 7, 80, 83
inewgh, enough, 25
inougth, enough, 12
inowe, enough, 34
inowgh, enough, 52, 63
inowght, enough, 84
inowthe, enough, 63
iolines, iolynesse (ioliuete, H.), gaiety, mirth, 18, 83
ioly (cointe, H.), gay, sprightly, 72
iorneyer (voyager, H.), traveller, 13
iowgolowre (iugleur, H.), buffoon, 104
ioyeux, joyous, 84
iren, iron, 22
iusticer, judge, 13, 14
iustifie (iusticier, H.), to judge, 13
I wys, sc. iwis, assuredly, 9
kest, cast, threw, 30, 89
keuercheffes, kerchiefs, 80
konyng, koonyng, knowledge, 83, 87
kunnyng, knowledge, 6, 25, 83
kynde, nature, 1
lachesse, negligence, remissness, 32
lavde (subst.), praise, 12
lawyng, laughing, 61
lech, leche, like, 8, 26, 31, 34, 36, etc.
lede, lead (the metal), 19
lefull, lawful, 95
leke, leek, 10
lekend, likened, 31
lekerousnes (alechemens, H.), appetite, greediness, 62
lemyte, limit, 10
lenage, lineage, 11
lerned, taught, 113
lessyng, lessening, 59
lest, leste (talent, H.), desire, 93
lesyng (menconge, H.), lying, 46
lete (empescher, H.), hinder, 82
letted, lettyd, hindered, 8, 31, 82
letteryd, lettyrd (letrez, H.), lettered, 42
lettynges (empeschemens, H.), hindrances, 67
lettyth, hinder, 10
leuer, rather, 48, 107
lewde (fol, sotte, H.), foolish, 40, 46, 51, 102
leyser, leisure, 40
lich, like, 41
longeth, longyth, belongeth, 20, 25, 71
longgyng, belonging, 20, 37
lorier (laurier, H.), laurel, 99, 100
lyeines, lyenis (liens, H.), bonds, 61, 66
lymbo (limbe, H.), limbo, the outskirts of hell, 41
lyst, desired, 98
lyst, lyste (courage, talent, H.), will, desire, 44, 49, 77
ma, may, 70
malencolius, melancholy, 21
malice, artfulness, 80
malicius, artful, 45, 111
manace, menace, 51
manisynges, menacings, 51
mankyndely, mankyndly (humaine, H.), human, 8, 18, 70, 72, 103
manyce, menace, 51
marches (marches, H.), borders, 60
masseyngeres, messengers, 23
maystry, mastery, 35
maystyr (mestier, H.), office, business, 11
meche, much, 49
mechell, much, 72
mene, means, 20
menye (mesgnee, maignee, H.), company, pack (of hounds), 77
merowre, mirror, 95
mervelious, meruelyous, marvellous, 12, 13, 14, 20
miche, much, 45
molle (tauppe, H.), mole, 40
mote, must, 33
mowe, more, 77
muse, take amusement, 71, 74
mych, myche, much, 11, 12
mychyll, much, 70
mydwes, meadows, 104
Scrope’s Fr. MS. probably read “aux piez” (cf. 104, note 1), and he confused it with “aux préz”
mysbeleve, misbelief, 45
myschefe (meschief, H.), misfortune, 33
myssedone (meffait, H.), misdone, done amiss, 45
ne, not, 41
nedelle (aguille, H.), needle, 54
nedis, needs, 54
neyburwe, neighbour, 16
nerehand (a pou, H.), nearly, 11
noblyth, ennobleth, 114
noye (nuit, H.), annoy, harm, 61
noyens (nuisible, H.), harm, nuisance, 105
noyens, harmful, 111
nwefanggyllnesse, newfangledness, inconstancy, 95
nygromancye (arquemie, sc. alchemy, H.), necromancy, 94
nyse (nyce, H.), stupid, foolish, 51
o, one, 18, 22, 25, 97
obeissance (obeyssance, H.), deference, respect, 14
onsesyde of, unseised of, without, 74
oo, one, 105
or that, before that, 19, 20, 51
ordure, filth, vileness, 20
oste (ost, H.), host, 26
ouctrecuidez, proud, overweening, 28
ouer all (par tout, H.), everywhere, 80, 93, 114
ouergoo (surmonter, H.), master, conquer, 96
ouerhoope (oultrecuidance, H.), presumption, 51
ouerlede, ouerleyde (surpris, H.), surprised, 61, 65
ouerwenyng (oultrecuidez, H.), inordinately proud, 27, 28
owthe (doit, H.), ought, 6
paase (passer, H.), surpass, 83
paramours (adv.), passionately, 69, 72
parde, par dieu, 12, 68, 105
passede (pesee, H.), weighed, considered, 51
paynemes (payens, H.), pagans, heathen, 47
peise, peyse (peser, H.), weigh, consider, 20
pendavnde, pendant, 52
penowrye, penuery (misere, H.), penury, 99
perchith (perce, H.), pierceth, 56
perfite, perfect, 8
perlious, perlyous, perilous, 82, 89
perlyouser, more perilous, 110
pes, peace, 30
pewter (peaultre, H.), pewter, 18
peyne hym, trouble himself, 87
pistil, pistile, pistylle, epistle, 5, 18, 22
plangeth (plunge, H.), plunges, 22
plenere, full, 5
plesauns, plesawnce, pleasure, 75, 81
plongeden, plunged, 28
plyte, plight, 61
Pocalipse, Apocalypse, 73
pontificall (pontifical, H.) dignified, 23
prayed, invited, 66
prerogatyue (prerogatiue, H.), privilege, exclusive possession, 7
presound, imprisoned, 31
prime temps, spring, 27
pris (pris, H.), prize, 20, 23
prouoste (preuost, H.), provost, 13
purchase (sc. p. armes, pourchacier, H.), pursue, follow, 12
purchassed (sc. p. trayson, pourchace, H.), contrived, 108
purches (sc. p. harme, pourchacier, H.), contrive, 86
purveide off (pourueu, H.), provided with, 102
pyll, pillage, 60
pystyl, pystylle, epistle, 7, 10
qwan, when, 35
qwaynte (cointe, H.), clever, ingenious, 95
qweke (vifs, H.), quick, living, 45
qwen, qwenne, when, 26, 30, 35
qwere, where, 39
qwhan, when, 44
qwhen, queen, 63
qwome, whom, 36
qwythe thorne (morier blank, H.), white thorn, 35
raffe, split, was riven, 65
rampyng (rampans, H.), rampant, raging (of bears), 12
rauenous (traueilleux, H.), vexatious, painful, 18
reaume, realm, 7, 13, 15, 111
reconforte, comfort, 94
refeccion (reffeccion, H.), food, 55
renomme, renown, 2
renommeed, renowned, 1
repuignand, resisting, repelling, 3
revede (tolue, H.), tore away, rescued, 15
reyne, rain, 27
rothir, rudder, 56
rotters, gallants, 62
rowe (renc, H.), rank, class, 13
royalme, royaulme, realm, kingdom, 3
ryght, very, 12, 15, 18, 29, 106
ryghtwyse, righteous, 13
ryghtwysly, righteously, 14, 20
rytewyse (droicturiere, H.), righteous, 13
sadde, discreet, careful, 59
sadely, carefully, 51
sadenes (sc. s. of speche, lente de parler, H.), discretion, 56
salwes, sallows, willows, 93
saue, except, 23
say, assay, test, 80
schawnegeable, changeable, 22
schawneged, schawnged, changed, 60, 71
schawngyth, changeth, 22
schette, shut, included, 39, 52
schewyth (suiue, H.), sueth, followeth, 22
schorte, shorten, 62
sclaunderus, slanderous, 56
se, sea, 11, 47
sede on syde, set aside, 10
seege, siege (sc. the camp), 96
sege, siege (sc. the besieging force), 106
seege (sc. of counsell, siege de conseil, H.), seat, 57
segge, siege, 26
seghens, sighings, 101
sekyr, sure, 89
semblable, similar, 108
serpently (serpentins, H.), serpent-like, 30
sesid with (saisi de, H.), seised, possessed of, 74
sewyng, sewynge, following, 7, 111
seyntens, saints, 47
seysyd hym in (sc. esleua en, H.), arrogated to himself, 28
seytis, sexes, 93
sheded, shed, 63
shrewdenes (mauuaistie, H.), wickedness, 110
shrewes (des mauuais, H.), the wicked, vicious, 108
skye (nue, H.), cloud, 44
slake, fail, grow slack, 73
slewthe, slowthe, sloth, 32, 33
smerte, painful, 103
socourable, helpful, 27, 50
socovre, succour, 16
soffted (amoli, H.), softened, 94
softeth (adoulcist, H.), softeneth, easeth, 26
soget (subget, H.), subject, 14, 65
soggettes (subges, H.), subjects, 24
soioryng (seiour, H.), resting place, abode, 112
soioure, sojourn, 95
sonne, sun, 20
soothel, sootyl, sotell, sothell, subtle, 92, 93, 94
sorwe, sorrow, 103
sotely, subtly, 36, 61
soth, truth, sooth, 89
sothyn (cuit, H.), sodden, 29, 112
sotle, subtle, 25
sotted (assottent, H.) besotted, made foolish, 74
sottyl, subtle, 95
sotyl, subtle, 35
sotylte, subtlety, 95
soundir, sunder, 41
sowlehele, salvation, 2
sowpled (se adoulcist, H.), softened, mollified, 92
sowte, sought, 80
spotte (tache, H.), blemish, taint, 37, 41
stabilnes (constance, H.), stability, constancy, 12
stale, stole, 32
standing, standyng, stondyng, considering that, 8, 51, 53, 81, 82, 89, 106
stanke (estanc, H.), a pool, 93
stawnched, quenched (of fire), 105
stawnsh, staunch, quench, 33
stepechildire (fillastres, H.), step-children, 29, 30
stepmodir, steppemodir (marrastre, H.), stepmother, 30, 48
stirte, styrte (sailli, se gita, H.), hurried, 89, 103
stodier (lestudiant, H.), studyer, student, 42
strate, strait, narrow, 63
streche (tendre, H.), stretch, tend, 8
streche to, reach to, rival, 82
strecheth, stretch, are directed, 32
streged, stretched, 30
streyned, strained, stretched, 40
streyte, strait (of a prison), 60
strof, strove, 57
strong (fort, H.), difficult, 58
suremounted, raised, 3
suspeccion, suspicion, 70
swe, sowed, 38
swiche, such, 45
swolve, swallow, 34
synguler, special, 46, 47
sythyn, sithen, since, 34
tachys (condicions, H.), manners, 34
targes (targes, H.), target, shield, 54
tendyng (tendans, H.), having regard, 17
tendyyng, regard, attention, 93
teremys, terms, 17
terrement (obseques, H.), interment, burial, 106
teschyng, teaching, 14
teynt (attaint, H.), tainted, affected, 30
tharledom, thraldom, thralledom (seruitude, H.), servitude, 51, 65, 91
thefende, defend, forbid, 29
thredde, third, 3
thresshefolde (sueil, H.), threshold, 31
tobbe (tine, H.), tub, 63
tocheth to (touche, H.), regards, concerns, 12
to regard of, in regard to, 8
trauell, labour, travail, 42
trauellyth, labour, travail, 26
trowght, truth, 80
trwes (treues, H.), truce, 106
turnementes (tourment, H.), torments, 37
tweyne, twain, 29
tynne, tin, 18
tysyng (enditement, H.), enticing, 108
vagaunt (vague, H.), vagrant, 104
vailable, vaylable (valable, H.), useful, 12, 43
vailet, vayleth (est proufitable, vault, H.), availeth, 54, 57
valure (valeur, H.), valour, 27
vauntoure (vanteur, H.), boaster, 71
vaylie, valley, 14
veleyns, velyens, vile, abject, 51, 59, 111
venegre, vinegar, 30
veray, very (vraye, Fr.), true, 7, 81, 98
viagis, voyages, 13
vilens, vileyns, vile, abject, 34, 37
vmbethynke the, consider, 6, 57, 63, 69, 76, 111
vnbehouely (inpartinent, H.), unbecoming, 35
vncunnyng (ingrat, H.), unmindful, 59
vndirstondynges (entendemens, H.), meanings, 25
vngracious (sc. v. games, mal gracieux, H.), discourteous, 58
vniuersyte, university, 3, 42
vnknowyn (descongnoissant, H.), unmindful, ungrateful, 59
vnkunnyng (ingratitude, H.), unmindfulness, ingratitude, 59
vnnethes (a peine, H.), scarcely, hardly, 62
voide, voyde, woyde, remove, expel, 30, 51, 68, 98
voyded (vuidoient, H.), removed, departed, 51
voyeddid (vuida, H.), removed, expelled, 19
wacches (agais, H.), watches, plots, 8
wassh (gue, H.), lake, pool, 33
wchid (gaitoit, H.), watched, 44
wellwyllyng (bien vueillant, H.), benevolent, 27
wend, wende (cuiderent, cuida, H.), weaned, thought, 30, 106
weneth (cuident, H.), wean, think, 111
were (guerre faire, H.), make war, 11, 23
weri, very, real, true, 67
werre, war, 2, 12, 23
wery, truly, 3
wete (sauoir, H.), wit, know, learn, 91, 111
wexe (deuiengnent, H.), wax, become, 32
wexe, waxed, grew, 30, 31, 52
weyne, vein, 19
whan, whanne, won, 15, 42, 59
whedir, whither, 41
whit (sc. with) the dede (ou fait, H.), in the act, 44
wombe (ventre, H.), belly, 111
wombe of mynde (ventre de la memoire, H.), inmost mind, 55
wood, woode (forsennee, enragez, H.), mad, furious, 30, 65, 72
woodnes (forcennage, enragerie, H.), madness, fury, 29, 30, 67
worthynesses (proueces, H.), worthy deeds, 27
wote (scay, scez, H.), know, 12, 98
wreke (ateines, H.), vengeance, 11
wylne (v.), will, 16
wymple (guimple, H.), wimple, 53
wynnors (gaignons, H.), 11. According to Godefroy, Dict. de l’ancienne langue Française, s.v., “gaignon” means a “mâtin, chien de basse-cour,” and then a “homme vil et mechant,” or, as we say, a “cur.” Scrope seems to have confounded it with “gaigneur,” from “gagner,” to win.
wyse, manner, 16, 20, 40
wytte (sens, H.), wit, sense, 12
yaf, yafe, gave, 17, 19, 38
yate, gate, 30
yche, each, 67
ye, eye, 32
yef, if, 9
yefe, give, 20
yefer, giver, 38
yeffeth, yeffyth, giveth, 82, 84
yeffve, give, 83
yeftis, gifts, 2
yen, eyes, 44
yeris meynde (luniversaire, H.), anniversary, 106
yete, get (imper.), 11. The line should probably be read, “And wyth vs strey[n]gth be (sc. by) honesty þe yete,” cf. “Et auec nous te couuient force,” H.
yeveth, yevyth, giveth, 18, 23, 39
yevyng, giving, 3
yif, yife, give (imper.), 14, 19
yiff, give, 83
yiffeth, giveth, 18, 21
yite, yet, 71
yode, went, 73
yofe, given, 21
yolden, yielded, given up, 87
youen, youyn, yoven, yovyn, given, 2, 7, 19, 20, 21, 22, etc.
yraigne (yraigne, H.), spider, 71
ȝate, gate, 7
ȝates, gates, 11
Notes
146. En Crete, H.
147. Fierte, H.
148. De adventu Domini Sermo iii. (Migne, clxxxiii. 45), but the passage is not literally translated.
149. Sa non puissance, H.
150. Chastisyng in chastisyng, MS.; garde et discipline, garde en le gardant de mal faire et discipline en le chastiant se il a mal fait, H.
151. Prov. xxi. 12, 15.
152. Apres te mire en Perseus, H., and so below; cf. Ovid, Met. iv., 610 sq.
153. Belue, H.; monstre, Wyer.
154. Chose couuenable, H.
155. Sc. won; il acquist, H.
156. Sc. should have; deuourer la deuoit, H.
157. Sc. flyeth; qui vole, H.
158. Many, MS.
159. Omitted in MS.; le porte, H.
160. Sermo ccclv., de vita et moribus clericorum (Migne, xxxix. 1569).
161. A bien viure, H.
162. Pour soy, H.; conscientia tibi, fama proximo tuo, S. Aug. The translator evidently read “foy.”
163. Eccl. xli. 15.
164. Sc. the planet Jupiter; Joyus, MS.; de iouis les condicions, H.
165. Jābir ibn Aflah, an Arab astronomer of uncertain date, whose work on Astronomy was published in Latin, in nine books, at Nuremberg in 1534. A 15th century MS. of it is in the British Museum, Harley MS. 625.
166. Perhaps Nicholas of Lynne, a Carmelite who lived in the latter part of the 14th century, and whose astronomical tables were used by Chaucer in his “Astrolabe.” Among other works he wrote tracts “de natura Zodiaci” and “de Planetarum domibus” (Tanner, Bibliotheca, p. 346).
167. Et est figuree a la compleccion sanguine, H.
168. Sc. Pythagoras.
169. Doulce et humaine, H.
170. A Nepocian, H. The passage does not appear to be among the works of St. Gregory, nor in St. Jerome’s epistle to Nepotianus.
171. Matt. v. 7.
172. Traueilleux, H.
173. Sc. Hermes Trismegistus.
174. An unintelligible corruption; fist lange deuenir deable, H. and other Fr. MSS.; doth [make] the aungell to become a devyll, Wyer; superbia est per quam angelus cecidit, per quam Adam de naturæ suæ dignitate dejectus est, Cass. Exp. in Psalterium (Migne, lxx. 843).
175. Tethe, MS.; la mort, H.
176. Sc. vein; la veine, H.
177. Ps. xxx. 7.
178. Sc. drove; le desherita et chaca, H.
179. Sc. ere; peser la chose ains quil donne, H.
180. Ye, MS.
181. Sc. note; peuent notter tous sages, H.
182. Moralia, xxvii. 3 (Migne, lxxvi. 401).
183. Ps. xviii. 10.
184. No such work appears under the name of Cassiodorus.
185. Esdras iii. 12.
186. The translator, not Christine de Pisan, is responsible for making Phœbe masculine.
187. Ep. ad Simplicianum (Migne, xvi. 1085).
188. Ne se plunge point, H.; non tristibus mergitur, St. Ambr.
189. Eccl. xxvii. 12.
190. Folowynge, MS. There is some confusion here in the translation, cf. en ce monde et que le bon esperit par son exemple [pot bien] ensuiuir son bon pere Ihesu Crist et batailler contre les vices, H.
191. Ephes. vi. 12.
192. Soyes aourne de faconde, H. The translator seems to have misinterpreted “faconde,” eloquence, speech, as “falchion.”
193. Sc. old; ce tapprendra Mercurius, H.
194. Qui vont deuant, H.
195. Luke x. 16.
196. Sc. By thy mother enough shall be assigned to thee; te liurera assez ta mere, H. The MS. reads “modus,” and in the next line “bater” (amere, H.).
197. Cuir-bouilli, leather boiled and moulded, while soft, into the required shape.
198. No exposition of the Creed appears among the works of Cassiodorus.
199. Sc. light; lumiere, H.
200. Hebr. xi. 6.
201. Sittyng, MS., and so also below.
202. There seems to be some confusion here between Pallas the goddess and Pallas son of Lycaon and reputed founder of Pallantium, in Arcadia.
203.? join; il doit aiouster sagece a cheualerie, H.
204. The whiche vertue, MS.
205. Hebrews vi. 18.
206. Sc. Penthesileia, queen of the Amazons.
207. Dont si noble voix est semee, H.
208. Sic, the first letter being of course the Fr. “d’.”
209. Expos. in Ps. xii. (Migne, lxx. 100).
210. Soubz la quelle [pluye] germe la bonne voulente, H.
211. Inimicis benevola, bonis suis superans malos, Cass.
212. 1 Corinth, xiii. 4.
213. Narcissus, whose story is in Ovid, Met. iii. 341 sq.
214. Se esleua en si grant orgueil, H.
215. Cest a entendre loultrecuidance de lui meisme ou il se mira, H.
216. Thi, MS.; est sa vie contenue, H. The translator seems to have read “toute nue.”
217. Job xx. 6, 7.
218. Wrongly translated. H. reads:
Athamas plain de grant rage
La deesse de forcennage
Fist estrangler ces (sc. ses).ii. enfans.
Pour ce grant yre te deffens.
The story (Ovid, Met. iv. 420 sq.), which is introduced again further on (p. 112), is much confused here. It is briefly as follows. Athamas by command of Hera married the divine Nephele, and had by her Phrixus and Helle. He was, however, more enamoured of Ino, who bore to him Learchus and Melicertes. Nephele in her anger having returned to heaven, Ino tried to get rid of her rival’s children. For this purpose she caused a famine by roasting the seed-corn before it was sown, and then bribed the messengers whom Athamas sent to Delphi for an oracle to bring back word that Phrixus must be sacrificed. Nephele, however, carried off Phrixus and his sister on the ram with the golden fleece, while Athamas, driven mad by Hera, killed his son Learchus, and Ino threw herself into the sea with Melicertes.
219. Sc. sodden; semer le ble cuit, H.
220. Hys, MS.
221. He, MS.
222. Yno, MS.; la deesse iuno, H.
223. A hole in the roof for the escape of smoke, here perhaps used for the hearth; le sueil, H.
224. Sic, meaning apparently “warring”; but from the reading in H., “a pou ne se entretuoyent,” it is perhaps a mistake for “near-hand,” sc. nearly, almost.
225. Quant la deesse virent tant espouentable, H.
226. Sic ira corrumpit cor, si in alium diem duraverit, S. Aug. Epist. ccx. (Migne, xxxiii. 958).
227. Ephes. iv. 26.
228. Aglauros or Agraulos, daughter of Cecrops. Hermes changed her into a stone for barring his access to her sister Herse (Ovid, Met. ii. 737 sq.).
229. Dey, MS.; seche, H.
230. Sic, probably for “too feloun a spotte”; trop est villeine tache et contre gentillece, H.
231. De Genesi ad litteram, xi. 13 (Migne, xxxiv. 436).
232. Eccl. xiv. 8, but the Vulg. has “lividi.”
233. No, MS.; ne soyes pas lonc ne prolice, H.
234. For, MS.
235. Sc. the eye of Polyphemus.
236. Bedeisus, MS.; no doubt a corruption of “Bede sur les Prouerbes,” H. The reference is apparently to Bede’s Expositio super Parabolas, ii. 20 (Migne, xci. 995).
237. Prov. xxi. 5.
238. Sc. frogs. This story of Latona is from Ovid, Met. vi. 313 sq.
239. Cuidoit, H.
240. Palu, H; maresse, Wyer.
241. Perhaps in error for St. Bernard, Liber de modo bene vivendi, xliv. (Migne, clxxxiv. 1266).
242. Eccl. xiv. 9.
243. Sc. manners; car ses condicions sont ordes, H.
244. Sc. Hippocrates, whose “dictum” was that “sanitas consistit.... non in replendo corpus cibis et potibus” (Add. MS. 16,906, f. 11).
245. Moralia, xxx. 18 (Migne, lxxvi. 556).
246. Philipp, iii. 19.
247. The scene of the story was in Cyprus. Cidonie (Cydonie, H.) apparently comes from a misunderstanding of Ovid, who says of Pygmalion, “Collocat hanc stratis concha Sidonide tinctis” (Met. x. 267).
248. En ot pitie. H.
249. Omitted in MS.; plusieurs, H.
250. Que il en lait a suiure, H.; leue to ensue, Wyer.
251. Apthalin, H.; but it is doubtful who is meant. The name occurs in the “Dicta Philosophorum,” but not with this “dictum.”
252. 2 Pet. ii. 13.
253. The assignment of a particular clause in the Creed to each of the Apostles appears in a sermon printed among the spurious works of St. Augustine (Migne, xxxix. 2190).
254. To, MS.
255. Sc. to plough.
256. Car deuant semoient les gainages sans labourer, H. “Gaineyer” is for “gaigneur,” a husbandman.
257. Lawde, MS.; ainsi que la terre est abandonnee et large donnarresse, H.
258. Qui tant nous a largement donne de ses haulx biens, H.
259. Isis, in her original character as wife of Osiris and inventor of the cultivation of corn.
260. Toutes vertus antes et plantes
En toy, comme Ysis fait les plantes
Et tous les grains fructifier;
Ainsi dois tu ediffier.
So H., where “antes,” sc. antez, entez, is from “enter, placer, faire entrer” (Godefroy, s.v.).
261. Sc. Hermes.
262. What, MS.
263. Vn roy, H.
264. Oan, MS., and so below.
265. Pastours, H.
266. Sc. mole; comme la tauppe, H.
267. Lierres, sc. larron, H.
268. And nede, MS.; au besoing, H.
269. Sc. Theseus and Peirithous, who invaded the lower world in order to carry off Persephone.
270. There is some confusion in this passage; se Hercules, qui leur compaignon yere, ne les eust secourus, qui tant y fist, etc., H.
271. Sc. chains; chayennes, H.
272. Sc. Cadmus, who founded Thebes and slew the dragon which guarded the neighbouring well of Ares, and who also invented letters.
273. Sc. won; gaigna, H.
274. Lestude y mist, H.
275. Plus quen nulle autre auoir, H.
276. Et du bien largement y prendre, H. The strange word “theryng” is probably nothing more than “therein.”
277. See Ovid, Met. i. 583 sq. The source of the statement that Io invented letters is doubtful. Possibly it rests only on the two lines (ib. 649):
Littera pro verbis quam pes in pulvere duxit
Corporis indicium mutati triste peregit.
278. Les vertus de iupiter, H.
279. Tho, MS.
280. Sc. note.
281. Sc. cloud; en vne nue, H.
282. Sc. with; surprendre ou fait, H.
283. Sc. watched; la gaitoit, H.
284. Sc. through.
285. Sc. Pyrrhus.
286. Which, MS.; vn sage, H.
287. Sc. gods; les dieux, H.
288. A wrong translation; tres louable chose est seruir dieu et sainctifier ses sains, H.; tous ses sens humains, G. de Tign.
289. Atropos, one of the Fates, here represented as masculine; a Atropos et a son dart, H.
290. Tout crestien, H.
291. The, MS.; la prouision, H.
292. Bellerophon, whose story is here confused with that of Hippolytus by making Anteia his stepmother.
293. Il mieulx ama eslire la mort, H.
294. Decre, MS.; latrie, H.; latria, Wyer; eo ritu ac servitute quæ græce λατρεία dicitur et uni vero Deo debetur, Aug. de Civitate Dei, vi. præf. (Migne, xli. 173).
295. Matt. iv. 10.
296. Memnon, the Ethiopian, whose father Tithonus was half-brother to Priam, being son of Laomedon by a different mother.
297. Leust occis, H.
298. Trwee, MS.
299. “Rabion” in the “Dicta Philosophorum” (Add. MS. 16,906, f. 9b), where the sentence is “Multiplica amicos qui sunt medicamina animarum.” The Museum MSS. of G. de Tignonville’s French version and of the English versions of Earl Rivers and Scrope read “Sabion” or “Zabion.”
300. Cf. Sermo clxxx. (Migne, xxxviii. 972).
301. Sc. false.
302. Exod. xx. 7.
303. Sc. menacings; de grant menace, nyce et fole, H.
304. Et en Leomedon te mire, H.
305. Enuoya messages laidement congeer, H. The word “bostus” is apparently connected with “bost, boast,” meaning “boastful” or “threatening.”
306. Sc. well weighed; moult pesee, H.
307. Et brisier commandement soit autressi oultrecuidance, H.
308. Isai. i. 16, 17.
309. Les palais des parens, H.
310. Sc. cracked; creuee, H.
311. Sc. brightness; la leur, H.
312. Le mordant de sa ceinture ficha par la creueure, H.
313. Vn morier blanc, H., sc. a white mulberry, cf. Arbor ibi, niveis uberrima pomis, Ardua morus, erat, Ovid, Met. iv. 89.
314. These words are at the bottom of f. 34b, after which there is a lacuna of a whole quire. The story in H. goes on “le lyon qui sus ot vomy lentraille dune beste quil ot deuouree. Oultre mesure fu grande la douleur de Piramus, qui cuida samie deuouree des fieres bestes; donc apres moult piteux reclaims soccist de son espee. Tisbee sailli du buisson, mais quant elle entent les sanglos de son ami qui mouroit et elle voit lespee et le sanc, adonc par grant douleur sus son ami chay, qui a elle parler ne pot, et apres plusieurs grans plains, regrais et pasmoisons soccist de la mesmes espee.” The mythological personages dealt with in the missing pages are Æsculapius, Achilles, Busiris, Leander, Helen, Aurora, Pasiphae, Adrastus, Cupid, Corinis, and Juno.
315. The preceding “texte” and “glose” in H. are as follows:—
De Iuno ia trop ne te chaille,
Se le noyel mieulx que leschaille
Donneur desires a auoir,
Car mieulx vault proece quauoir.
Iuno est la deesse dauoir selon les fables des poetes, et pour ce que auoir et richece couuient auoir et acquerir a grant soing et traueil et que tel soing peut destourner a honneur acquerre et comme honneur et vaillance soit plus louable que richeces de tant comme la noyel vault mieulx que leschaille, etc.
316. Slelle, MS.
317. Sc. one hump on the back.
318. Matt. xix. 24.
319. Amphiaraus, hero and seer, joint king of Argos with Adrastus, whose sister Eriphyle he married. Against his own opinion he was induced by his wife to join the expedition of the Seven against Thebes.
320. Sc. Solon, but the sentence is not under his name in the “Dicta Philosophorum.”
321. What St. Gregory really says is, “Sicut carni vestræ, ne deficiat, cibos quotidie præbetis, sic mentis vestræ quotidiana alimenta bona sunt opera. Cibo corpus pascitur, pio opere spiritus nutriatur,” Hom. v. in Evang. (Migne, lxxvi. 1092).
322. Worde ye here the which, MS.
323. Matt. iv. 4.
324. See p. 19.
325. Ne chose dont vn puist presumer folie, H.
326. Sc. discretion; lente de parler, H.
327. Couuercle, H.
328. Fro, MS.; qui garde sa lengue il garde son ame, car la mort et la vie sont en la puissance de la lengue, H.
329. Ps. xxxiii. 14.
330. The “texte” in H. is:—
Croy la corneille et son conseil.
Jamais ne soyes en esueil
De male nouuelle apporter;
Le plus seur est sen depporter.
331. He, MS.
332. Hym, MS.
333. Literally translated, this sentence should read: “But she (the crow) dissuaded him from going by giving him an example of herself, who for a like case had been driven from the house of Pallas,” etc. See Ovid, Met. ii. 542.
334. Se espart, H.
335. Prov. ii. 10, 11.
336. Which, MS.
337. Ganymedes was son of Tros and brother of Ilus and Assaracus. His well-known story is here confused with that of Hyacinthus, who was accidentally killed in a game of discus with Apollo (Ovid, Met. x. 184).
338. Prov. xxiv. 6.
339. Sc. sheep.
340. Sc. wholly; du tout, H.
341. Descongnoissant et desloyaulx a celle qui trop de bien lui ot fait, H.
342. Comme vn vent sec, H.
343. Sap. xvi. 29.
344. Hym, MS.; ne la regardes, H.
345. Perseus, H.
346. Elsewhere it is Poseidon who was Medusa’s lover—Hanc pelagi rector templo vitiasse Minervæ Dicitur (Ovid, Met. iv. 797). Her hair alone was changed into serpents.
347. His his, MS.
348. “Holy chirche” is the translator’s addition, not being in H.
349. Le pouoir de plus mal faire, H.
350. He holde, MS.
351. Sc. shield.
352. Crisostome, H. and other Fr. MSS.
353. Comme cest impossible que le feu arde en leaue, aussi est ce impossible que compunccion, etc., H. The translator’s omission of the words in brackets was no doubt due to the repetition of “impossible que.”
354. Ps. cxxv. (cxxvi.) 5. This is the only instance in which the quotation at the end of an allegory is filled in.
355. Es liens Vulcanus et surpris, H.
356. That þat, MS.
357. iio (sc. two, deux), MS.; ala querre les autres dieux, H.
358. Que tel sen rioit, qui bien voulsist en semblable meffait estre encheut, H.
359. Darguemie, sc. alchemy, H.
360. Read “But to our purpose it seith.” The translator has misread “Mais” in the original as “Mars”; mais a nostre propos veult dire, H.
361. Que en tel cas ne soit surpris par oubli, H.
362. Sc. love.
363. Myght, MS.
364. Coniecture, H.
365. 1 Pet. v. 8.
366. Tomyris, queen, not of the Amazons or “Femeny,” but of the Scythian Massagetæ (Herod. i. 205).
367. Despris, sc. mépris, H.
368. Sc. ambushments.
369. Ne hayr, H.
370. De coenobiorum institutis, xii. 31 (Migne. xlix. 472).
371. Eccl. iii. 20.
372. Ne laisses ton sens auorter, H.
373. Sanuie (sc. s’ennuie) tost, H.
374. Prov. xxix. 15, somewhat corrupted in H.
375. Sc. mad, furious; du geant enragez, H.
376. The story was that Acis, son of Faunus, was beloved by the nymph Galatea, and that the Cyclop Polyphemus, furious with jealousy, crushed him beneath a huge rock (Ovid, Met. xiii. 750).
377. Qui Acis estoit nommez, H. The mistranslation in the text is inexplicable.
378. Adonc fu [le geant] surpris de soubdaine rage et tellement escroula la roche que tout en fu Axis acrauentez (sc. ecrasé, brisé), H.
379. Nymphe, H.
380. Se ficha en la mer, H.
381. Sap. v. 9.
382. Peleus, to whose marriage with Thetis all the gods were invited except Eris or Discord.
383. For his judgment see below, p. 83.
384. Sc. then; adonc, H.
385. Sc. weaning; a qui il cuidoit estre filz, H.
386. Qui conduisoit les dames, H.
387. Sc. hates; ou croiscent les haynes, H.
388. Cassiodore sus le Psaultier, H.
389. Rom. xiii. 13.
390. Iff thou aniy, MS.; Sc. tu las a qui que soit fait, H.
391. See above, p. 51.
392. Lawde, MS.
393. Sc. avenged.
394. Joel ii. 13.
395. Damours affoles, H.
396. Semele, whom Hera deceived in the form of her old nurse Beroe (Ovid, Met. iii. 260).
397. Ne perceyued, MS. The translator misunderstood the original, cf. dist a celle, qui garde ne sen prenoit de la deceuance, que de rien ne sestoit ancore apperceue de lamour, mais quant elle seroit auecques lui, etc., H.
398. La voulsist accoller, H.
399. Of hir, MS.; de feu, H.
400. Ou liure des brebis, H., Sc. Sermo xlvii. de ovibus, in Ezech. xxxiv. 17–31 (Migne, xxxviii. 303).
401. A noz freres enfermes, H.; infirmo fratri, St. Aug.
402. Tit. ii. 7.
403. Prov. xxxi. 27.
404. Thereoff, MS.
405. Arachne, who challenged Athena to compete with her in weaving and was changed by the goddess into a spider (Ovid, Met. vi. 1–145).
406. The, MS.
407. Sap. v. 8.
408. Sc. Adonis.
409. Vn damoisel moult cointe, H.
410. According to the “Dicta Philosophorum” Sedechias “primus fuit per quem nutu Dei lex precepta fuit et sapientia intellecta” (Add. MS. 16,906, f. 1).
411. 2 Pet. ii. 19.
412. Apoc. xiii. 7.
413. De lagait (l’agait, sc. ruse, artifice), H. The translator seems to have read “la gent.”
414. Luke xi. 21.
415. To follow? Dinstrumens suiure nas mestier, H.
416. Sc. running; courans, H.
417. Sc. fierce; fiers, H.
418. Et moins sent les molestes dauarice qui ne voit point les riches du monde, H.
419. Ps. ci. 8.
420. Apulia and Calabria.
421. This is an assumption from the fact that the Greek colonies of South Italy had the name of Magna Græcia. Hellas originally was the district of Phthiotis in Thessaly, where the Myrmidones dwelt.
422. Especes, H.; quatuor sunt species quibus omnis tumor arrogantium demonstratur, S. Greg. Moralia, xxiii. 6 (Migne, lxxvi. 258).
423. Prov. viii. 13.
424. Actæon, changed into a stag by Artemis (Ovid, Met. iii. 155).
425. Nymphes, H.
426. Ignorence, H., and so the “Dis des Philosophes.”
427. Matt. iii. 2.
428. See above, p. 74.
429. Either Charon is meant, or Acheron, as the eponym of the river of Hades so named.
430. Miraculeuse ne merueillable qui est appelle tempter Dieu, H.
431. Jas. iv. 3.
432. Sc. assay, test; Lessay con fist a Achilles, H.
433. En labbaye la deesse Vesta, H.
434. Pyrrhus, his son by Deidameia, daughter of Lycomedes of Scyros.
435. Aneles, guimphes, conroyes et de tous ioyaulx, H.; quayntyses, prety japes and jewelles, Wyer.
436. Make, MS.
437. Cointeries mignotes, H.
438. Leginon, H.; Longinon, Add. MS. 16,906, f. 51b; Loginon, Roy. MS. 19 B. iv. f. 60.
439. Le vaillant nest conqneu que en guerre, G. de Tign. (Roy. MS. 19 B. iv. f. 64).
440. Attendent la gloire pardurable en loyer, H.
441. 2 Paralip. xv. 7.
442. Sc. fairies; vne nymphe, H.
443. The letters in brackets have been torn away with the edge of the leaf.
444. Texillus, Dicta Phil. (Add. MS. 16,906, f. 56).
445. 1 Joh. ii. 15.
446. Sc. knowledge; de sauoir, H.
447. Sc. riches; dauoir, H.
448. See above, p. 66.
449. Sc. pass, surpass.
450. Ioliuete, H.
451. Omitted in MS.; les Manichees, H.
452. It is þerfor it is, MS.
453. Matt. vii. 1, 2; ut non judicemini, Vulg.
454. Sc. snares; les tours de fortune sont comme engins, H.
455. Sc. Boethius; Boece, H.
456. Les quieulx addicions ne prestent point les choses ou les mondains mettent leur felicite, H.
457. Isai. iii. 12.
458. Sic,? tasteth; gouster, H.
459. Luke x. 42.
460. Cephalus, who killed his wife Procris in the way described (Ovid, Met. vii. 836).
461. Glauellot, H.
462. Matt. vii. 3.
463. 1 Cor. x. 13.
464. Au dieu qui dort et fait songer, H.
465. That may propirly that may speke, MS.; qui proprement en puisse parler quoyque les expositeurs en dient, H.
466. Tyme, MS.
467. Eccl. ii. 4.
468. Alcyone, or Halcyone, wife of Ceyx, whose story is in Ovid, Met. xi. 410.
469. For, MS.
470. Dedens la nef se gita, H.
471. Colus, MS.
472. The fable was that for seven days before and after the winter solstice, when the Halcyon was breeding, the sea remained calm.
473. See the “Dis des Philosophes” (Roy. MS. 19 B. iv. f. 60).
474. Prov. iii. 21, 22.
475. Sc. Trust.
476. Hesione, whom Hercules rescued when she was exposed by command of an oracle to be devoured by a sea monster, and whom he gave to Telamon Ajax on being defrauded of his promised reward by her father Laomedon (Ovid, Met. xi. 211).
477. Thelamon Ayaulx, H.
478. Sc. through.
479. Væ tibi, terra, cujus rex puer est, Vulg. (Eccles x. 16).
480. Plus moleste, H.
481. Sap. x. 5.
482. Et empires, H.
483. Calchas was not a Trojan, but a son of Thestor of Mycenæ or Megara and the foremost soothsayer on the Greek side. Christine de Pisan or her authority seems to have misunderstood Dares Phrygius, ch. 15.
484. Sc. Apollo; Apollin, H.
485. Sc. subtle.
486. 2 Tim. iii. 2, 4, with omissions.
487. Sc. Hermaphroditus (Ovid, Met. iv. 285 sq).
488. A Hermofrodicus te mire, H.
489. The nymph of the well Salmacis; vne nimphe, H.
490. A la fontaine de Salmacis, H.
491. Lui prist talent de soy baigner, H.
492. Sc. sexes; qui ii. sexes auoit, H.
493. Darquemie, sc. alchemy, H.
494. Ghadely, MS.
495. Leurs ficcions, H.
496. Men, MS.
497. Isai. xxxv. 3.
498. Yen (sc. eyes) of yowre, MS.
499. Lenterine face, H. (enterin, sc. entier, complet, Godefroy, s.v.).
500. Sc. how much.
501. La pouons nous veoir nostre bel, la pouons nous veoir nostre lait, la pouons nous veoir combien nous prouffitons et combien nous sommes loings de prouffiter, H.
502. Joh. v. 39.
503. Gard toy Briseyda nacointier, H. The change is probably due to Chaucer’s “Troylus and Cryseyde.”
504. Cointe et vague et attrayant, H.
505. Of the, MS.
506. Sc. wholly?; du tout, H.
507. 1 Cor. i. 31.
508. Sc. two.
509. Or, MS. The passage is confused, cf. que tout homme qui a occis ou meffait au loyal compaignon dun autre que le compaignon en fera la vengence, H.
510. Madarge, H.; Magdargis, Add. MS. 16,906, f. 55b; Macdarge, Roy. MS. 19 B. iv. f. 65. The “dit” as given by G. de Tignonville in the last-named MS. is “En quelque lieu que tu soyes auecques ton enmemi.... fay touz iours bon guet; ia soit ce que tu soyes le plus fort et plus puissant, si doys tu trauaillier a faire la paix.”
511. Sc. though.
512. Sc. ought.
513. This is not among Solon’s sayings in the “Dis des Philosophes.”
514. Ephes. vi. 11.
515. His, MS., both here and in the next line.
516. Sc. Narcissus; Narcisus, H. See the story in Ovid, Met. iii. 356 sq.
517. Cf. qui par grant necessite requiert autrui; la voix qui est demouree, cest que de gens souffraiteux est il assez demoure ne ilz ne peuent parler fors apres autrui, H.
518. The fourth philosopher in the “Dicta”; Salquin, Add. MS. 16,906, f. 7b; Zaqualkin, Roy. MS. 19 B. iv. f. 10b.
519. To helpe, MS.
520. Prov. xxii. 9.
521. Sc. Daphne (Ovid, Met. i. 452 sq.); Damne, H.
522. To theyme, MS.; ou temps, H.
523. Sc. how.
524. An omission by homœoteleuton; cf. estre tous iours present aux ordres des anges auec les benois esperis assister a la gloire du conditeur, regarder le present visage, etc., H. The quotation is from Hom. xxxvii. in Evang. (Migne, lxxvi. 1275).
525. Psal. lxxxvi. 3.
526. Sc. Andromache’s.
527. Petite paille, H.
528. La brusle du feu de sa soubtille circonspeccion, H.
529. 1 Thess. v. 19.
530. Ninus, H.
531. Sc. Nimrod.
532. Le roy Ninus, H.
533. De Singularitate Clericorum (Migne, iv. 837). The Latin text is somewhat loosely rendered.
534. Cest vne sotte fiance, H.; adversaria est confidentia, St. Aug.
535. Estre sauf entre les morsures, H.
536. And—vnhurte, not in H. or Lat.
537. Sc. laugheth; rit, H.
538. Psal. xxxvi. 3; Bonum est confidere in Domino, etc. (Psal. cxvii. 8), H.
539. Ce sera quant le roy Priant ne croiras, qui tira priant, H.
540. See above, p. 100.
541. Shepe, MS.
542. Sc. Othea; he, MS., both here and a few words later on.
543. Sa mort, H.
544. Sermo de conversione ad clericos, ch. viii. (Migne, clxxxii. 843).
545. En espies, H.; auxpiez, Roy. MSS. 14 E. ii. f. 327, 17 E. iv. f. 313; adolescentibus in insidiis est, St. Bern.
546. Eccl. xiv. 12; tardabit, H.
547. Encor te vueil ie faire sage, H.
548.? Stroke; le coup de vne sayette, H. and G. de Tign.
549. Qui met auenir, H.; qui meut a venir, G. de Tign (Roy. MS. 19 B. iv. f. 7b).
550. Matt. vi. 6.
551. The Politenes of Benoît de Ste. Maure (l. 16105) and Guido delle Colonne.
552. Puit estre nuisible, H.
553. Couuoitise desordenee, H.
554. Dit Ygnocence ou liure de la vilte de condicion humaine, H. The quotation is from Pope Innocent III., “De contemptu mundi,” ii. 6 (Migne, ccxvii. 719).
555. Sont ii. sancsues, H.; sanguisugæ, Innoc., quoting Prov. xxx. 15. Wyer’s version rightly has “horse-leeches”; and the reading “sauce-makers” is inexplicable.
556. Tim. vi. 10.
557. A luniversaire (sc. l’anniversaire) du chief de lan des obseques de Hector, H.; vnyuersarie, Wyer.
558. Amer, H.
559. In ep. Joannis ad Parthos tract. ii. (Migne, xxxv. 1994).
560. Et sa concupiscence, H.
561. Amer, H.
562. 1 Ep. Joh. ii. 15.
563. Perciez doultre en oultre, H.
564. Sc. Augustine.
565. Susde, MS.; ne nul en sa force ne se doit fyer, H.
566. 2 Cor. iii. 4, 5; tanquam ex nobis, H.
567. Lenditement, H.; exhortacion, Wyer.
568. Des mauuais, H.; Barat est le cappitaine des mauuoys et ire est son gouuerneur, G. de Tign. (Roy. MS. 19 B. iv. f. 39).
569. iii. (les, H.) inconueniencees, MS.
570. Sc. deny; reyne, MS.; renyer, H.
571. Prov. iv. 15.
572. Paix par faintise, H.
573. Sa mauuaistie, H.
574. Psal. xxi. 26.
575. So H. and other MSS.; perhaps a corruption for Thyre or Tyre.
576. Sc. Ptolemy; Ptholomee, H.
577. Apoc. xviii. 7.
578. Sc. knights.
579. Sc. as he weaned to have returned; si comme il cuidoit retourner, H.
580. Sc. wholly.
581. Louez, H.; loe, G. de Tign. (Roy. MS. 19 B. iv. f. 44b); lawded ne alowed, Wyer.
582. Moralia, xv. 6 (Migne, lxxv. 1084).
583. Matt. xxiii. 27.
584. Sc. sodden; le ble cuit, H. For the same story of Ino see above, p. 29.
585. Frustra sibi de infirmitate vel ignorantia blandiuntur, qui ut liberius peccent libenter ignorant vel infirmantur, Bern. de Gradibus Humilitatis, cap. vi. (Migne, clxxxii. 951).
586. There is an omission here, cf. ou par negligence de les sauoir ou par parece de les demander ou par honte de les enquerir, H.
587. 1 Cor. xiv. 38.
588. Si ne soient de toy despites, H.
589. This story is from the “Aurea Legenda” of Jacobus de Voragine with slight variations (ed. Graesse, 1846, p. 44).
590. De quelconques personne que ilz soient dis, H.
591. Hugh de St. Victor, Eruditionis didascalicæ libri vii. (Migne, clxxvi. 739).
592. Mais que cest que il dit, H.
593. Eccl. iii. 31. H. has the colophon, “Explicit lepistre Othea.”