With his goodwill; thanks to his own efforts. ↩
Surpassing. ↩
Pleasing. ↩
Short doublet. ↩
Back and front armour. ↩
Prussian. ↩
Well-grieved; like Homer’s εϋκνημιδες Αχαιοι. ↩
Fashion. ↩
Combed; the word survives in unkempt. ↩
Fashion. ↩
Age. ↩
As thick as a man’s arm. ↩
Greyhounds, mastiffs; from the Spanish word alano, signifying a mastiff. ↩
Rings. ↩
Retinue, company. ↩
Bay horse. ↩
Diversified with flourishes or figures. ↩
A kind of silk. ↩
Trimmed. ↩
Brimful, covered with. ↩
His curled hair ran down into ringlets. ↩
Pale yellow colour. ↩
A few freckles sprinkled on his face. ↩
Somewhat mixed; German, mengen, to mix. ↩
Cast about his eyes. ↩
Reckon; as we now speak of “casting a sum.” ↩
All and sundry. ↩
The time of early prayers, between six and nine in the morning. ↩
Lodged; whence inn. ↩
Give them pleasure, make them comfortable. ↩
Think. ↩
Improve. ↩
Lie. ↩
Please. ↩
Then. ↩
Go. ↩
Worthy. ↩
In the hour of the day (two hours before daybreak) which after the astrological system that divided the twenty-four among the seven ruling planets, was under the influence of Venus. ↩
Demeanour. ↩
That. ↩
Adonis, a beautiful youth beloved of Venus, whose death by the tusk of a boar she deeply mourned. ↩
Take pity on. ↩
Certainly, truly; German, gewiss. ↩
Vow, promise. ↩
Care not to boast of feats of arms. ↩
Praise, esteem for valour. ↩
Whether. ↩
Make, kindle. ↩
Although I tell not now. ↩
Understood. ↩
Was not immediately vouchsafed. ↩
In the third planetary hour; Palamon had gone forth in the hour of Venus, two hours before daybreak; the hour of Mercury intervened; the third hour was that of Luna, or Diana. “Unequal” refers to the astrological division of day and night, whatever their duration, into twelve parts, which of necessity varied in length with the season. ↩
Led. ↩
Draping; hence the word smock; smokless, in Chaucer, means naked. ↩
Gentle. ↩
Except. ↩
Pleasure. ↩
Do as he will. ↩
Of the species of oak which Pliny, in his Natural History, calls “cerrus.” ↩
Statius, the Roman who embodied in the twelve books of his Thebaid the ancient legends connected with the war of the seven against Thebes. ↩
Knowest. ↩
Earned; suffered from. ↩
Knowest. ↩
Field sports. ↩
Diana was Luna in heaven, Diana on earth, and Hecate in hell; hence the direction of the eyes of her statue to “Pluto’s dark region.” Her statue was set up where three ways met, so that with a different face she looked down each of the three; from which she was called Trivia. See the quotation from Horace, note 592. ↩
Quenched. ↩
Strange. ↩
Went out and revived. ↩
Cease. ↩
Those. ↩
Burn. ↩
Hence. ↩
Quiver. ↩
To what does this amount? ↩
Nearest. ↩
Imploring, pious. ↩
Realms. ↩
Held. ↩
Sending fortune at thy pleasure. ↩
Pity my anguish. ↩
That. ↩
Didst enjoy; Latin, utor. ↩
Thou wert unlucky. ↩
Net, snare; the invisible toils in which Hephaestus caught Ares and the faithless Aphrodite, and exposed them to the “inextinguishable laughter” of Olympus. ↩
Lying. ↩
Pity. ↩
Ignorant, simple. ↩
Believe. ↩
Causeth. ↩
Float, swim. ↩
Promise, vouchsafe. ↩
Cause. ↩
Hang. ↩
The offence, indignity. ↩
Ended. ↩
Arose from the ground. ↩
Heaved, lifted. ↩
Glad. ↩
That concession of Arcite’s prayer. ↩
Stop. ↩
Here, as in “Mars the Red” we have the person of the deity endowed with the supposed quality of the planet called after his name. ↩
Age. ↩
Experience. ↩
Surpass in counsel; outwit. ↩
Orbit; the astrologers ascribed great power to Saturn, and predicted “much debate” under his ascendancy; hence
