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Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 — Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes

from whom Chaucer certainly borrowed, though his works do not appear to have influenced any other English author; see s. 55 below. However, this poem is placed in the Appendix.

Chapters

1. xv. We must give great weight to the connection of this poem with Machault,

from whom Chaucer certainly borrowed, though his works do not appear to have influenced any other English author; see s. 55 below. However, this poem is placed in the Appendix.

5. iv. 976; A 1089; sworn (to do it), G 681; bound by oath, F 18; sworn (it

should not be so), D 640; Swore, _pp._ sworn, A 810, F 403; Sworne, _pp. as def. adj._ C 808; _as pl. adj._ D 1405; Swer, _imp. s._ swear, E 357; (_misspelt_ Swere), 3. 753. A.S...

3. i. 365; A 1399, B 166, E 1582, 1585, F 82, 132, 143, 175, 1454, G 668;

MISCHAUNCE, _s._ ill luck, R. 1548; 1. 85; T. i. 118; mischance, R. 251; misfortune, L. 1826; Mischance, ill luck, D 1334; _to mischaunce_, i.e. to the devil, T. ii. 222, v. 359...

4. ii. 286; wholly, C 58; even, B 2173, F 1614, I 113; Right as, just as if, B

RIGHT, _s._ 1. 21; _by right_, justly, 1. 22; B 44; _by alle r._, in all justice, T. ii. 763; Rightes, _pl._ rights, true reasons, B 3. m 11. 26; _at alle rightes_, in all respe...

2. ii. 251; A 1136, 1184, 3151, 3848, B 51, C 731, D 365, 762, 1005, 1171,

LEEF, (l['e]['e]f), _adj. as s._, what is pleasant; _for l. ne looth_, for weal nor for woe, L. 1639; what is dear (to him), T. iv. 1585; beloved one, lover, lady-love, T. iii....

13. Part II. ed. R. Morris and W. W. Skeat; 3rd ed. Oxford, 1894.

Specimens of English Literature, ed. W. W. Skeat; 5th ed. Oxford, 1890. Speght.--Chaucer's Works, ed. T. Speght, London, 1598; 2nd ed. 1602. Spenser, E.; Works of, ed. R. Morris...

12. v. 16, 17, 39, 42, 44, 57, 62, 67, 73, 78, 79, 86, 87, 94, 160, 242,

246-7, 256-7, 261-4, 274, 295-7, 299, 300, 302, 304, 305, 307, 320, 337, 355, 358, 360, 363-4, 378, 388, 401, 440; _and see_ i. 16; ii. lxv. *Rufus of Ephesus (2nd century), v. 41.

11. v. 2, 233;

*Haly (11th century), v. 41, 42. Hermes Trismegistus, Aphorismi, v. 88, 306; and see 432. *Herodotus, v. 312. *Hippocrates (died about 357 B.C.), i. 477, 505; v. 42. *Homer, Ili...

10. BOOK V: pr. 1--i. 440; pr. 2--ii. 490, 491; pr. 3--ii. 490, 491; m.

*Caecilius Balbus, Sententiae, v. 218. *Cassiod orus (obiit A.D. 575), Variarum lib. i. 4--v. 217, 221; lib. i. 17--v. 215; lib. i. 30--v. 218; lib. ix. 13--v. 219; lib. x. 18--...

7. BOOK II: pr. 1--i. 543, ii. 466, v. 365; m. 1--i. 543; pr. 2--i. 545,

546, 552, ii. 487, v. 63, 226, 246, 295; pr. 3--i. 547, ii. 466; pr. 4--i. 544, 545, ii. 479, 482, v. 154; pr. 5--i. 551; m. 5--i. 539; m. 6--v. 242, 243; pr. 7--v. 320; pr. 8--...

8. BOOK III: pr. 2--v. 33, 68; m. 2--v. 365, 385, 440; pr. 3--i. 508;

pr. 4--i. 554, v. 320; pr. 5--v. 234, 235, 360, 361; pr. 6--i. 553, v. 319; m. 6--v. 319; pr. 8--i. 489; m. 9--i. 522, iii. 341; pr. 10--v. 94; pr. 11--iii. 259; pr. 12--v. 57;...

6. BOOK I: m. 1--ii. 448, v. 363; pr. 1--iii. 275; pr. 2--ii. 466; m.

9. BOOK IV: m. 1--iii. 264, v. 149; pr. 4--i. 523; pr. 6--i. 547, ii.