Unless. ↩
“The red city;” it is not known where it was situated. ↩
Prepared, arranged. ↩
Pleasure. ↩
Cease speaking. ↩
Sigheth. ↩
Assiduity. ↩
To diminish, slacken. ↩
Saw. ↩
Part. ↩
Cured; French, guerir, to heal, or recover from sickness. ↩
Black. ↩
Look out on the sea. ↩
Painful sighs. ↩
Idly, in vain. ↩
Works mischief; from Latin, nocco, I hurt. ↩
Though they are forgotten. ↩
Image. ↩
Love, affection; from French, cher, dear. ↩
Pleaseth. ↩
That. ↩
Provision, arrangement. ↩
So much to be valued or praised. ↩
Unless. ↩
In my judgement. ↩
Unless. ↩
Esteem, value. ↩
Without the knowledge. ↩
Fortune. ↩
Betray. ↩
Ballads; the virelai was an ancient French poem of two rhymes. ↩
Thence; from the garden. ↩
For a long time. ↩
Gladden. ↩
Reward. ↩
Buried. ↩
Cause me to die. ↩
Before. ↩
That. ↩
Playfully, in jest. ↩
From end to end of. ↩
Prevent. ↩
Value, pleasure. ↩
Sigheth. ↩
Escape. ↩
Prayer. ↩
Wandered, went. ↩
Dwelling, situation. ↩
Compassionate. ↩
Undone. ↩
Unless. ↩
Pleaseth. ↩
Tell, explain. ↩
Helped. ↩
Quickened. ↩
Cause. ↩
Burst. ↩
Promise. ↩
If she do not. ↩
Distress. ↩
Whether. ↩
He cared not to fancy. ↩
Fear, suspicion. ↩
Occupied himself with. ↩
Scholar, man in holy orders. ↩
In a Latin poem, very popular in Chaucer’s time, Pamphilus relates his amour with Galatea, setting out with the idea adopted by our poet in the lines that follow. ↩
A wound healed on the surface, but festering beneath. ↩
Except. ↩
Where there was a celebrated and very famous university, afterwards eclipsed by that of Paris. It was founded by Philip le Bel in 1312. ↩
Eager, curious. ↩
Every nook and corner. Anglo-Saxon, healc, a nook; hyrn, a corner. ↩
Saw. ↩
Though. ↩
Belief, creed. ↩
Cured. ↩
Certain. ↩
Tricksters, jugglers. The word is probably derived—in treget, deceit or imposture—from the French trebuchet, a military machine; since it is evident that much and elaborate machinery must have been employed to produce the effects afterwards described. Another derivation is from the Low Latin, tricator, a deceiver. ↩
Vanished, removed. ↩
Learned man. ↩
Vanished, removed. ↩
Cured. ↩
Keep her promise. ↩
Gone. ↩
Eased of, released from; another form of “less” or “lessen.” ↩
All but. ↩
Civilly. ↩
Greeted. ↩
Days. ↩
Gone, removed. ↩
Passed away. ↩
The river, formed by the union of the Dordogne and Garonne, on which Bourdeaux stands. ↩
And even for that sum he would not willingly go to work. ↩
Agreed. ↩
I pledge my faith on it. ↩
Had a respite, relief, from anguish. ↩
Coloured like copper or latten. ↩
Beams. ↩
Courtyard, garden. ↩
Noel, the French for Christmas—derived from natalis, and signifying that on that day Christ was born—came to be used as a festive cry by the people on solemn occasions. ↩
Pity. ↩
Tricks. ↩
Detestable villany. ↩
Toledan tables; the astronomical tables composed by order Of Alphonso II, King of Castile, about 1250 and so called because they were adapted to the city of Toledo. ↩
“Alnath,” Says Mr. Wright, was “the first star in the horns of Aries, whence the first mansion of the moon is named.” ↩
Wicked devices. ↩
Another and better reading is “a week or two.” ↩
Whether. ↩
Removed. ↩
Fearful. ↩
Mien. ↩
Distress, affliction. ↩
Bewail. ↩
Promised. ↩
Cause. ↩
Die. ↩
Scarcely. ↩
Complain. ↩
Sooner, rather. ↩
I may certainly purchase
