Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
the sense of the phrase. See Gower, Conf. Amantis, bk. viii. ed. Pauli, iii. 299. We there read that a knight was honoured by a king, by being set at the head of the middle table in the hall.
2384. From Prov. xxxi. 4, where the Vulgate has: 'Noli regibus, o Lamuel, noli regibus dare uinum; quia nullum secretum est ubi regnat ebrietas.' Cf. C. 561 (and note), 585, 587.
3. i. 157) we find:--1609. _To darreyne hir_, to decide the right to her. Spenser is very fond of this word; see F. Q. i. 4. 40; i. 7. 11; ii. 2. 26; iii. i. 20; iv. 4. 26, 5. 24; v. 2. 15; vi. 7. 4...
15. i. 104-5) we find:--'In Germany and in France it was the custom at the public entries [438] of kings, princes, and persons of rank, to offer them the wines made in the district, and commonly sold i...
11. chapter 23 in the English version).1934. _Lo but_ is the reading of MS. E. But the right reading is probably _buf_, not _but_. The readings are; E. _but_; Hn. Cm. Ln. _buf_; [336] Cp. _buff_; Pt. _boþ_ (wrongly);...
1. ii. 373), aptly cites a passage from Gower which is quite explicit as tothe sense of the phrase. See Gower, Conf. Amantis, bk. viii. ed. Pauli, iii. 299. We there read that a knight was honoured by a king, by being set at the head of the middle tabl...
4. iii. 191), explains the matter, saying--'The assendent sothly, as wel inalle nativitez as in questiouns and _elecciouns of tymes_, is a thing which that thise Astrologiens gretly observen'; &c. The curious reader may find much more to the same effec...
2. iii. 167, where we read that the Apocalypse of Golias and the confession ofGolias 'have by constant tradition been ascribed to him [Walter Map]; never to any other writer.' Golias is a medieval spelling of the Goliath of scripture, and occurs in Chauce...
13. Canto xxxiii. ll. 1-21; and are quoted in the notes to Cary's translation.I am persuaded that ll. 36-56 (three stanzas) were added at a later period. Being taken from Dante, they could hardly have been written very early; whereas the Life of St. Cecil...
12. l. 161; also--548. The reading _Troilus_ (in E. Hn.) must be a mistake, because he was not guilty of transferring his love to another; it was _Cressida_ who did that, so that the falcon would...
5. ll. 4772-3, we find:--2007. _al-so mote I thee_, as I may thrive; or, as I hope to thrive; a common expression. Cf. 'So mote y thee'; Sir Eglamour, ed. Halliwell, l. 430; Occleve, De Regimine Princip...
14. xii. 2: est autem hoc ipsum solatii loco, inter multos dolorem suumdiuidere; qui quia dispensatur inter plures, exigua debet apud te parte subsidere.' Cf. Milton, P. R. i. 398. The idea is that conveyed in the fable of the Fox who had lost his...
10. i. 103:--'Chese for us bothe, I you praie, And what as ever that ye saie, Right as ye wolle, so wol I. My lord, she saide, grauntmercy. For of this word that ye now sain, That ye have ma...
8. iii. 400, we read that 'now ben mony thousand of freris in Englond'; and,at p. 511, that they were, 'as who seith, withoute noumbre.' In P. Plowman, C. xxiii. 269, Conscience accuses the friars of waxing 'oute of numbre,' and reminds them that 'Heven...
7. l. 8767:--As to _Trotula_, I may here observe, in addition to what is said in the note to l. 671, that Warton mentions a MS. in Merton College, with the title 'Trottula Mulier Salernitern...
9. x. 21,22:--'Cantabit uacuus coram latrone uiator; Et nocte ad lumentrepidabit arundinis umbram.' The latter of these lines should come first, and the usual readings are _motae_ (not _nocte_), _lunam_, and _trepidabis_. However, it is only the o...