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INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS
TO
TOGETHER WITH
COMPARISONS AND SIMILES, METAPHORS
AND PROVERBS, MAXIMS, ETC.,
IN THE SAME.
COLLECTED BY
PROF. HIRAM CORSON, LL.D.
OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY.
PUBLISHED FOR THE CHAUCER SOCIETY
BY KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., LTD.,
BROADWAY HOUSE, LUDGATE HILL, E.G.,
AND BY HENRY FROWDE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS,
AMEN CORNER, B.C., AND IN NEW YORK.
1911, for the issue of 1884.
.first gems, LXXII.
RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PAOR
INTRODUCTION (BY THE REV. PROF. SKEAT) . . . . vii
PART I.
INDEX OF PKOPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS .... 1
ADDITION TO THE INDEX 87
SCRIPTURAL QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS (cf. p. 10) . . 94
PAET II.
COMPARISONS AND SIMILES (cf. p. 19) 97
METAPHORS (cf. p. 51) 108
PROVERBS, MAXIMS, AND SENTENTIOUS EXPRESSIONS IN GENERAL
(cf. p. 67) Ill
PRAYERS, ENTREATIES, IMPRECATIONS, ETC. (cf. p. 64) . .• 118
vu
INTRODUCTION.
BY THE REV. PROFESSOR SKEAT.
THB present issue was originally announced in the
following terms: — "The issue for 1884, in the First
Series, is to be
LXXII. The Six-Text, Part IX, with colord Litho
graphs of 6 Tellers of Tales and 6 emblematical Figures
from the Cambridge Univers. MS. Gg. 4.27; Forewords,
Title-pages for the three volumes, &c. ; and Prof. Hiram
Corson's Index to the Subjects and Names of The
Canterbury Tales."
It has been recently discovered, after a careful enquiry,
that a portion of the work thus promised has long been
ready, but the publication of the whole was delayed for
the sake of the remainder.
The coloured cuts were completed long ago, and are
now issued. It will be seen, that all the pictures are
from the Cambridge MS. The six Tellers of Tales are
the Monk, the Pardoner, the Reeve, the Cook, the Wife
of Bath, and the Manciple. The six Emblematical
Figures are Envy, Charity, Gluttony, Abstinence, Lechery
and Chastity.
The "Forewords" were never written, and it is doubt
less on this account that the issue was delayed. Dr.
Furnivall had already issued, in 1868, his "Temporary
Preface to the Six-text Edition of Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales, Part I." But no continuation of this, in the form
of " Part II.," was ever written. No doubt his intention
was to write a full preface, to be called " Forewords," in
nil INTRODUCTION.
place of the " Temporary Preface " ; but the opportunity
for this never came ; and it would now be unadvisable to
substitute anything for it. The "Temporary Preface,
Part I.," must be allowed to continue to occupy its place.
And I think it must always be a subject for regret that
the " Attempt to show the right order of the Tales " was
held to be a justification for deliberately disturbing their
order. The placing of Groups C and D in their present
positions gives us an order which appears in no MS.
whatever, and dissociates the Six-text, to that extent,
from all the MSS. which it is meant to reproduce. Surely
the best course would have been to keep to the order in
the Ellesmere MS., on which the Six- text was founded.
The misfortune is that editors have to follow suit, and the
dislocated order cannot easily be set right again.
Neither are " the Title-pages for the three volumes, &c.,"
here included. Such " temporary " title-pages as have
been already printed are practically sufficient ; we are not
likely to forget the fact that the famous " Six-text " edition
of the Tales was edited throughout by Dr. Furnivall
himself ; and that, but for his energy and supervision, it
would, probably, never have appeared.
It is not quite clear of what the " three volumes "
consist. As far as I can judge, vol. i. was meant to include
Group A, and its appendix, the Tale of Gamelyn. Vol. ii.
may include Groups B and C ; and vol. iii., perhaps, the
rest, though this would make vol. iii. far too large. It
might be better to include B, C, D, and E in vol. ii.
Note that we cannot make a volume end with D, because
the "side-notes" on p. 402 belong to the following group.
I have found, in practice, that the most convenient way is
to have four volumes, arranged thus : vol. i., A and
Gamelyn ; vol. ii., B and C ; vol. iii., D, E, F, G, H, and
the Parson's Prologue in Group I. ; and vol. iv., the
Parson's Tale by itself. But other arrangements can be
made, and the problem is best solved by not limiting the
INTRODUCTION. ix
number of volumes, but leaving each subscriber free to
follow his own method.
PROFESSOR CORSON'S INDEX.
It remains to say a few words as to the very useful
Index compiled by the late Professor Hiram Corson, of
Cornell University. It has long been in type, but it
has no words of introduction. I therefore take upon
myself to supply them.
It will be seen that there are really no less than seven
indexes ; and the book consists, accordingly, of two parts,
the second of which begins at p. 97.
Part I. includes the three indexes following : — (a) Index
of Proper Names; (b) Addition to the Index, pp. 87-
93 ; (c) Scriptural Quotations and Allusions, pp. 94, 95.
Part II. includes : — (a) Comparisons and Similes, pp.
97-108; (6) Metaphors, pp. 108-111; (c) Proverbs,
Maxims, &c., pp. 111-117; (d) Prayers, Entreaties, &c.,
118-121.
Some of the information is repeated. Thus the Scrip
tural Quotations at pp. 94, 95, largely agree with the
list of quotations given under the heading " Bible " at
pp. 10, 11 ; indeed, the earlier list is, in some instances,
the fuller of the two. In Part II., the Comparisons and
Similes may be compared with the list of the same at pp.
19, 20; the Metaphors, with the list at p. 51; the
Proverbs, with the list at pp. 67, 68; and the Prayers,
with that at 64, 65. These repetitions are helpful rather
than superfluous.
A few words are further necessary with regard to
the references.
These are all to the paging and lines of the Six-text
edition ; but they can easily be used for other editions :
by observing the following notes.
1 As, for example, the text in vol. iv. of the Oxford edition in six
volumes; Mr. Pollard's edition of the Canterbury Tales; the
Student's Chaucer; and the Globe edition.
X INTRODUCTION.
-Group A occupies pp. 1-128; B, pp. 129-301; C,
pp. 303-332; D, pp. 334-401; E, pp. 403-476; F,
pp. 478-525; G, pp. 527-574; H, pp. 576-587; I,
pp. 589-end. For practical use, we have only to reverse
this arrangement, as under.
1-128 contains Group A.
129-301 „ „ B.
303-332 „ „ C.
334-401 „ „ D.
403-476 „ „ E.
478-525 contains Group F.
527-574 „ ..,, G.
576-587 „ „ H.
589, &c. „ „ I.
A few examples will make this plain.
Abailard, letters of, 353/677 = D 677.
Abigail, mentioned, 210/2290; 446/1369 = B 2290,
E 1369.
Achelous, the river-god, 259/3296 = B 3296.
In the case of the Tale of Gamelyn (see p. 31), the
references are to the separate paging in the Six-text.
Thus " Boundys, Sir John of," refers to p. 1, following
after p. 128 of the Six-text. At p. 101, the quotations
in smaller type are from the same ; thus " lokid as a wild
lyon" is from Gamelyn, 1. 125. The number of the page
does not matter.
In conclusion, I beg leave to record my sincere regret
that Professor Corson — of whom I entertain the most
kindly recollections and whose loss I sincerely lament —
did not live to see the issue of this most acceptable
Index.
INDEX OF
PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS
TO
CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES,
ELLESMERE MS.
N.B.— The references are to the paging and lines of the Six-Text edition,
AARON, brother of Moses ; his abstinence, 390/1894
Abailard and Helo'ise, Letters of, alluded to, 353/677
Abelard. See Abailard
Abigail, the wife of Nabal, afterwards of David (1 Sam.
xxv.) ; allusions to her saving her husband, 210/2290 ;
446/1369
Abraham, the patriarch ; cited by Wife of Bath, in defense
of polygamy, 886/55
Absalom (Absolon), son of King David, who rebelled
against his father (2 Sam. xiii. — xix.), 641/639
Absolon, the parish clerk, in the Miller's Tale, 95/3313 ;
96/3339, 3348, 3353! 97/3366, 3371, 3387, 3389, 3394,
3398; 105/3657,3671; 106/3688,3711,3714,3719,3723;
107/3730, 3733, 3741, 3744, 3749; 108/3764, 3766, 3767,
3772,37B3,3793; 109/3804; 110/3852
Absolon. See Absalom
Abstinence, remedy against gluttony; not meritorious if
practised for health of body (St. Augustine quoted),
660/831, 832 ; its fellows, 1. temperance, 2. shame, 3.
suffisance, that avoids rich meats and drinks, 4. measure
or moderation, 5. soberness, 6. sparing, not sitting long
and comfortably at table, 660/833 — 835
Accidie, or Sloth, one of the seven deadly sins, 645 — 649/
677 — 727 ; its remedy, 650, 651/728 — 738. See Idleness
Achelous (Acheloys), the river-god, with whom Hercules
contended, 269/3296
Acheloys. See Achelous
ELLES. IXDEX. B
2 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Achilles, the Greek hero, 186/198 ; 292/4338; 485/239
Achitofel. See Ahithophel
Actaeon, Diana's punishment of, alluded to, 66/2303 ; his
metamorphosis portrayed on the walls of Diana's temple
(Ovid's Met., in. 138), 69/2065—2068
Acts of the Apostles, 687/597
Actuum, gen. pi. See Acts of the Apostles
Adam, the first man, 211/2293 ; 295/4448; 819/505,508;
353/696; 445/1325; 612/323, 325; 613/331, 332, 333;
630/516: 645/682; 668/819; 669/926, 928; the story of,
in Monk's Tale, 266/3197 — 3204; Adam and Eve, the
story of their fall, and its consequences, 612 — 614/325 —
336
Adam, the spencer, or butler, in the spurious tale of
Gamelyn, who aids Gamelyn against his elder brother
and his other foes, pp. 12 et seq.
Adonis (Adoon), the youth loved by Venus, 64/2224
Adriane. See Ariadne
Adromacha. See Andromache
Adultery, and the punishment of adulterers (Rev. xxi. 8,,
quoted), 661/840, 841 ; denned, 664/874: the many sins it
includes, 664/875 — 884 ; set in decalogue between theft
and murder, as partaking of both sins, 666/887 — 889 ;
most heinous when committed by those in holy orders, 665/
891 — 894; may be between man and wife, 667/904 — 906;
copulation with kinsfolk, spiritual or fleshly, 667/907 — 909
^Ella, king of Northumberland (A.D. 560—588), 148/578;
149/604, 610; 160/659; 151/688, 691; 152/725; 167/876:
168/893, 897; 161/984, 988, 996, 1003; 162/ioo6, 1014,
1016, 1022, 1032; 168/1045, 1046, 1051; 164/io88; 165/
noo, 1128; 166/1141, 1144
Aemilia, name given to the provinces of Parma, Modena,
and the Romagna, in Italy, 404/5 1
^Eneas, the Trojan hero, alluded to as "the false," 130/64
JEneid, Virgil's epic poem ; the slaying of Priam (lib. iii.
550—553), alluded to, 298/4549
JEsculapius, the god of Medicine, 18/429
^Esop, the fabulist, quoted against trusting an enemy,
216/2374
Africa (Affrike), one of the grand divisions of the earth,
291/43H
Age. See Old Age
Ahasuerus (of the Book of Esther), king of Persia, 210/
2291; 446/1374; 457/1745
Ahithophel, a counsellor of King David, who sided with
Absalom in his rebellion against the king, his father (2
Sam. xv. 31 et seq.), 641/639
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 3
Alanus de Insulis (Alain de 1'Isle), a Cistercian monk,
12th cent., and bp. of Auxerre. "the Universal Doctor; "
proverb from his Parabolas, " But euery thyng which \>at
seineth as the gold, Nis nat gold," etc., 558/962,963
Alayn. See Aleyn
Albon, daun, name by which the host addresses the Monk
254/3120
Alcebiades. See Alcibiades
Alceste. See Alcestis
Alcestis, wife of Admetus, king of Pherse, alluded to as a
devoted wife, 131/75 ; 520/1442
Alchemy, its vain efforts and pretences, 550/666 — 683 ;
552—559/720 — 971
Alcibiades, the Athenian general ; his wife's devotion
alluded to, 620/1439 — I44I
Alcione. See Ceyx and Alcyone
Alcoran, the sacred book of the Mahometans, 140/332
Alcyone. See Ceyx and Alcyone
Aldiran (MSS. mostly A Idrian), a star in the constellation
Leo, 486/265
Aldrian. See Aldiran .
Alexander, the Great ; the story told him, of the identity
in character, of an outlaw and a tyrant, 688/223 — 234 ;
story of, in Monk's Tale, 276, 277/3821—3860
Alexandria, city in Egypt, 2/51 ; 268/3582 ; 560/975
Aleyn, the clerk or scholar, of Soler hall, Cambridge, in
the Reeve's Tale. 116/4013 'et seq.
Alfonce. See Pedro Alfonse
Alfonso. See Pedro Alfonso
Algarsif (Algarsyf), son of the Tartar king Cambynskan,
in Squire's Tale, 479/3O ; 497/663
Algezir, city of, taken from the Moorish king of Granada
in 1344, 2/57
Al-Hazem (Al-hazel or Alhazen), Arabian mathematician,
physician, and astronomer, llth cent., 486/232
Alisandre. See Alexandria
Alisaundre. See Alexandria and Alexander
Alisoun (or Alison), the Carpenter's wife, in the Miller's
Tale, 97/3366; 101/3523; 102/3577; 104/3617,3639,3649;
106/3653, 3678 ; 106/3698 ; 108/3790
Alisoun, the name of the Wife of Bath, 356/804
Alisoun, a gossip of the Wife of Bath, 349/530 ; called
dame Alys, 349/548
Alkaron, Alkoran. See Alcoran
4 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Alliterations, l/9 ; l/i3; 8/69, 90; 4/103, 124, 135;
5/H9, 154, 159. 167, 169, 170; 6/200; 7/217, 233; 8/273;
9/284, 309; 10/344; 11/365; 12/396, 399; 13/4535
14/459, 464, 471 ; 16/536, 539, 546 ; 17/573, 591 ; 18/603,
606; 20/705; 21/711, 735; 23/735, 792, 798; 24/83i ;
27/890,893,899,908528/940; 31/1067; 36/1221; 88/1295;
39/1331 ; 41/1416; 48/1676; 49/1678; 53/1837; 54/1878,
1880; 55/1906,7; 56/1935; 57/1977; 58/2002; 60/2079;
61/2ii6; 62/2154, 2164; 66/2283; 66/2309; 67/2333,
2334, 2335,2338; 68/2386; 69/2419; 70/2437, 2463; 71/
2494; 73/2550; 74/2603,2605; 75/2607,2608,2609,2610,
2611, 2612, 2613, 2615, 2616; 76/2649, 2654; 77/2691;
78/2735; 80/2804; 82/2860, 2865; 86/2996; 86/3019,
3025 ; 88/3095 ; 89/3109, 3122, 3125 ; 90/3141 ; 92/3202 ;
^5/3308, 3317; 96/3342; 97/3393; 100/3472,3484, 3488;
101/3512, 3517, 352i; 102/3545; 103/3587, 3609; 104/
3618, 3619; 106/3703; 108/3796; 117/4090; 118/4101,
4107; 119/4163; 121/4232; 125/4355, 4356; 127/4369;
130/34, 62; 135/J73; 142/388; 143/432; 144/445, 447,
468; 146/522,525; 148/579,592; 149/6O2; 160/640; 163)
731; 154/761,764,787; 155/790,818,819; 166/830,839:
157/873; 158/886; 159/932; 161/976,985,994; 162/io26,
1028; 163/1039; 166/1104, 1109; 166/1158; 170/1275,
1286; 171/1322; 173/1394; 176/1496; 177/1508: 186/
1774 190/1896; 191/1902,1911; 192/1932,1944; 193/
1956, 1962,1968,1981, 1982, 1986; 194/1988; 195/2017,
2023, 2036, 2038, 2040, 2042, 2044; 198/2105, 2107 ; 200/
2156; 254/3115, 3122, 3131; 257/3216; 268/3587; 273/
3724; 279/3913; 283/40x6; 286/4119; 287/4159, 4163;
289/4253 ; 290/4288 ; 291/4299 ; 292/4332 ; 298/4554,4562 ;
327/78o; 335/32; 338/166, 168; 339/195; 340/209,225,
229, 231; 341/249: 342/285; 346/450; 347/459; 348/
524; 349/536; 351/6oi; 352/672; 353/685,686; 354/
736,741; 355/774; 860/913,918; 361/94i ; 864/1033;
867/1138; 868/1179; 369/1228, 1230; 370/1253 ; 375/H36;
380/i6o6, 1610; 881/1639; 886/1734, 1736; 886/1737,
1738; 394/2027; 395/2087; 396/2107; 404/28, 45; 405/
60, 81; 407/iiS; 409/i87; 410/214; 412/276; 418/487;
419/504; 421/572, 574; 425/685; 428/781 ; 430/86o; 434/
971; 441/I2U; 442/1213, 1230; 444/1273, J28i, 1284,
1290; 445/1341; 447/i38i; 448/1418,1446; 453/1628;
454/i645; 456/1735; 460/1865 ; 468/1961; 464/2OIO;
466/2072, 2082; 467/2125; 468/2172; 476/2422; 478/6;
482/I2I, 136; 483/153, 168; 486/26: ; 487/323; 491/460;
498/697,698; 602/796; 508/819, 821; 504/874; 508/985,
1006, 1010; 509/I03I; 510/1064; 511/iio6, 1116, 1121 ;
612/1163; 514/1228; 616/1305; 517/1344; 518/1348,
1360, 1361; 623/1541, 1552; 624/1590; 525/i6oo; 528/
49; 688/321 ; 546/534; 661/1032; 567/i2i8, 1219;
humourously alluded to by the Parson : " I kan nat geeste
Rum, Ram, Ruf, by lettre'," 590/43
Almache. See Almachius
Almachius, the Eoman prefect under whom St. Cecilia
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 5-
suffered martyrdom, 540/362: 541/405, 410; 542/421, 431,
435 ; 543/468 ; 544/487 ; 545/524
Almagest, Ptolemy's MeyaXrj 2vpra£ig rf/c 'Aarpovo/Jiiag^
the handbook of astronomy in the Middle Ages, 92/3208 ;
339/183 ; 343/325
Alma Redemptoris Mater, name of a hymn to the Virgin,.
184/i7o8; 185/1744; 187/i8o2; 188/1831,1845
Alms, an essential of satisfaction ; 3 kinds of : contrition
of heart, pity for one's neighbour's defaults, giving good
spiritual counsel and providing for the wants of the body,
679/1030 — 1033 ; should be done timely, and in secret if
possible, 679/1034
Alnath, a star in the horns of Aries, 5 16/1281
Alocen. See Al-Hazem
Alphonsine Astronom. tables, terms employed in, 516/1273
— 93. See Tables Tolletanes
Alys, dame, the wife of Bath, 343/32O. See Alisoun
Amazons, a race of female warriors, 26/88o
Ambrose, Saint, one of the Latin Fathers of the Church
(b. ab. 340, d. 397, A.D.), 686/271 ; 594/84
Amor vincit omnia, 6/162
Amphiaraus, a famous soothsayer and warrior, native of
Argos, whose wife Eriphyle induced him to go to the
Theban war where he lost his life, 354/741
Amphion, king of Thebes, renowned for his music, 45/
1546; 456/1716; 580/1 16
Amphiorax. See Amphiaraus
Amphioun. See Amphion
Ancestors; "of oure eldres may we no thyng clayme but
temporel thyng Jnit man may hurte and mayme," 366/1131,.
1132 ; "children ofte been vnlyk hir worthy eldres hem
bif ore," 408/1 55
Andromache, wife of Hector ; her dream of her husband's
death, 292/4331—48
Angelus ad virginem, the title of a hymn in the Church
service, 92/3216
Anger hinders wise counsel, 212/2313 — 18 ; treated of, as
one of the Seven Deadly Sins, 631 — 43/533—653 ; its
remedy, 643 — 45/654 — 76. See Ire
Anne, St., mother of the Virgin, 150/641 ; 380/1613;
529/70
Anselm, St., archbishop of Canterbury, b. 1033, d. 1109;
600/169, 170
Antaeus, a giant in Libya, slain by Hercules, 259/3298
Antecrist. See Antichrist .
<> INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Antlieus. See Antaeus
Anthiochus. See Antioclms
Anthony, St. See Antony
Antichrist, 655/788
Antiochus, king, violated the daughter of Apollonius of
Tyre, 131/82
Antiochus IV., surnamed Epiphanes, king of Syria; the
story of, in Monk's Tale (from '2 Maccabees ix.), 274—
276/3765—3820
Antonius, Marcus, slaughter of, portrayed on the wall of
the temple of Mars, 68/2032
Antony, or Anthony, St., fire of, 622/427
Apelles, a celebrated Greek painter, 303/i6 ; 848/499
Apennines, a chain of mountains in Italy, " the hilles hye,
That been the boundes of westlumbardye," 404/45
Apennyn. See Apennines
Apia. See Via Appia
Apocalypse, the Revelation delivered to St. John, in
Patmos, 597/136
Apollo, the sun, 497/671 ; 509/1031. See Phoebus
Apollonius of Tyre, 131/8i
Appelles. See Apelles
Appollo. See Apollo
Apprentice of London, described, 127, 128/4365 — 4422
April, ApriH, Aprille, the fourth month, l/i ; 129/6;
349/546
Apulian. See Poilleys
Arabe, Arabia, a country of Asia, 482/no
Arabian, Arabyen, native of Arabia, 267/3529
Arch-deacon, description of a strict, 872/1301 — 1331
Arcite, the Theban prince in Knight's Tale, the rival of
his cousin Palamon,for the hand of Emilia, 30/IOI3, et seq.
Argus, the hundred-eyed keeper of lo, 41/1390; 844/358;
467/21 i i
Ariadne, daughter of Minos, forsaken by Theseus, 131/67
Aries, sign of the Zodiac, 480/51 ; 489/386; 516/1282.
See Ram
Aristoclides, a tyrant of Orchomenus, 519/1387
Aristotle, the Grecian philosopher, 9/295 ; 485/233
Armed complaint. See Insurrection
Armenian, a native of Armenia, 267/3528
Armorica (Armorik, Armorike), the ancient name of Ere-
CHAUCER S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 7
tagne, in Francf, 268/3578 ; 600/729 ; Armorik Briteyne,
510/1061
Arnauld de Villeneuve, celebrated alchemist and physician
of 13th cent. ; b. 1238, d. 1314 ; author of Rosarium
Philosophorum, 672/1428
Arnold of the newe toun. See Arnauld de Villeneuve
Arpies. See Harpies
Arrius, a person mentioned by wife of Bath, 855/758, 762
Arrogance, one of the twigs of Pride, 619/391 ; defined,
6i9/396
Arson, the crime of, portrayed on the wall of the temple
of Mars, "The shepne brennynge with the blake smoke,"
68/2000
Artemisia, wife of Muusolus, king of Caria, to whom she
erected the Mausoleum, 620/1451
Arthemesie. See Artemesia
Arthur (Arthour), king, the hero of British romance, 359/
857, 882 ; 860/891 ; 365/1089
Arthures, gen. s. See Arthur
Artois (Artoys), a former province of France, 3/86
Arviragus (Arveragus), the knight in Franklin's Tale, 503/
808, 814, 837; 607/969; 610/1087; 518/1351; 620/1424;
621/1460; 622/1517; 523/1526, 1551 ; 524/1595
Ashes; in our asshen olde is fyr yreke (Petrarch, Son. 16),
111/3882
Asia, the continent east of Europe; used, probably, for
Asia Minor, 188/1678
Assuer, Assuere, Assuerus. See Ahasuerus
Assurance, a remedy against Accidie, or Sloth, 650/735
Astrolabe (Astrelabie), an astronomical instrument, 92/
3209
Astronomical and astrological allusions, 64/2217; 65/
2271; 68/2367; 70/2462; 92/3193—5; 129/1— 14; 284/
4045—7; 293/4384, 5; 351/613—6; 353/695—705; 458/
1795—7; 461/1887; 468/1968—70; 470/2222—4; 480/49
-51; 486/263—5; 273, 4; ^88/352; 497/671, 2; 510/
1057,85612/1129 — 31; 515/1245 — 8; 589/1 — 12; astrolog.
influence, 186/194 — 203; invocation to the firmament, 139/
295 — 308 ; astronom. terms employed in the Alphonsine
tables, 516/1273 — 91
Asye. See Asia
Atalanta, the huntress, portrayed on the wall of Diana's
temple (Ovid's Met. x. 560), 59, 60/2069, 70
Atazir, a term under which the planet Mars is invoked
(Spanish spelling- of Arabic attathir, influence, employed
in a bad sense ; Skeat), 188/305
INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Athens, city and republic of Greece, 26/86 1, 873; 29/968,
973; 30/1023; 36/1194; 41/1391, 1395, 1406, 1413.- 60/
2098; 71/2483; 77/2701; 84/2964; 86/2971; 518/1369
Attalia, city taken from the Turks by Pierre de Lusignan,
soon after 1352, 2/58
Atthalante. See Atalanta
Atthenes. See Athens
Attheon. See Actaeon
Attila, king of the Huns, surnamed The Scourge of God;
his death from drunkenness, 821/579
AttiUa. See Attila
AueriH. See April
Auerrois. See Averroes
Augrim (contr. of Ar. algorithm, numeration), 92/3210
Augustine (Augustyn), St., Bp. of Hippo, the most emi
nent of the Latin fathers of the Church, 6/187, 188 • 175/
1449; 181/1631; 239/2807; 241/2833; 294/4431; 306/H7;
594/97; 595/IOI ; 698/150; 604/23O; 608/269; 610/302;
617/368; 618/381,383; 627/484; 682/535 ; 640/63o; 645/
678; 647/694; 661/741; 652/754; 668/768; 660/831;
668/921; 672/958; 674/985; 676/987; 678/IO2O, 1026
Aurelian, Eoman Emperor (A.D. 270 — 275); capture of
Queen Zenobia by, 267-8/3541 — 64
Aurelius (Aurelie), the squire in Franklin's Tale, 506/938 ;
607/965, 970, 979, 982; 508/989, 1006, 1007, 1020; 509/
1037; 511/1100, 1 102: 513/ii83, 1188; 514/1226, 1235;
515/1241, 1256; 516/1297, 1303; 522/1499, 1514; 523 /
1557; 624/1592
Austyn. See Augustine, St.
Auycen. See Avicenna
Avarice, or Covetousness, to be shunned, 239/2798 ; 330/
905 ; one of the Seven Deadly Sins, 651 — 67/739 — 803 ;
its remedy, 657, 68/804 — 17
Averroes, Averroiis, or Averrhoes (originally Ibn-Eoshd),
an Arabian philosopher and physician, b. 1120, d. 1198, 13/
433
Avicenna, Auycen (Latin form of Ibn-Slna), the most
eminent of Arabian physicians, b. 980, d. 1037 ; 18/432 ;
330/889
Babiloigne. See Babylon
Babylon (Babilan), the Asiatic city and empire of antiquity,
261/3339; 896/2082 ; used adjectively, Babilan Tesbee,
130/63
Bacchus, the god of wine, 456/1722 ; 579/99
Backbiting (or detraction), 5 kinds of, 628/493 — 8
CHAUCER S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 9
Bacus. See Bacchus
Baldeswelle (Bawdeswell), a parish in Eynford hundred,
Norfolk, 18/620
Bale; "after bale cometh bote forgh goddes might," Gam.
18/631
Balthasar. See Belshazzar
Bailly, Harry, the Host of the Tabard, 126/4358. See
Host of the Tabard
Barbarie. See. Barbary
Barbary, the portion of the world outside of Greece, 520/
1452
Barnabo Visconti, Duke of Milan. See Visconti
Basil, or Basilius, St., a Greek Father of the Church, bp.
of Csesarea, b. ab. 329, d. 379 ; quoted on the burnings of
hell, 604/221
Basilie, St. See Basil
Bath (Bathe), a city of England, 18/445 ; 440/ii7o; 455/
1685
Bayard (a horse's name, from bay), the blynde, as bolde as
is, a popular proverb, 672/1413
Becket, Thomas a, Archb. of Canterbury, b. 1109, d. 1170,
alluded to as "The hooly blisful mastir," 1/17 ; "The blis-
ful rnastir," 22/770
Belial, "that is the deuel," 666/897; "Belial is to seyn
with-outen luge," 666/898
Belmarye, a Moorish kingdom in Africa 1 2/57; alluded to,
as a country where lions are hunted, 76/2630
Belshazzar, king of Babylon, story of, in Monk's Tale,
262-4/3373-3436
Benedict, Saint, the founder of monachism in the West, b.
480, d. 543, 6/173; 100/3483
Benedight, seint. See Benedict, St.
Benet, Beneyt, seint. See Benedict, St.
Bernard, Saint, abbot of Clairvaux, b. 1091, d. 1153, 528/
30; 597/130; 599/166; 606/253,256; 608,274; 646/690;
649/723
Bernardus Gordonius, prof, of medicine at Montpellier,
14th cent., 13/434
Bernardus Sylvestris. See Megacosmus of B. S.
Berwick-on-Tweed, a sea-port town of England, 20/692
Berwyk. See Berwick-on-Tweed
Bethulia, the city which is the scene of the chief events of
the Book of Judith, 210/2289 ; 274/3755
Betraying of counsel, the sin of, 642/645
10 INDEX OF PROPER XAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Better late than never ("bet than neuere is late"), 572/
1410; "bet is a pyk than a pykerel, and bet than olde boef
is the tendre veel," 448/1419, 1430
Bevis, Sir, of Hampton (Southampton), romance of, alluded
to, 197/2089
Bible, the sacred books of the Old and Xew Testaments,
13/438 ; 321/578, 586 ; 352/650 ; 353/687 ; 889/1845 5
passages quoted or alluded to —
Genesisi. 28: 335/28; ii. 18: 211/2294; iii. 1—7: 613/
326—30; iv. 19: 335/54; is. 25, 26: 602/755; xix. 33:
318/485 — 7; xxvii: 210/2288; 446/1363 — 5; xxx. 27:
623/443 .' xxxix. 5 : 623/443 5 xxxix. 8 : 664/88o
Exochtsxiv: 145/489,90; xx. 3: 652/750; xx. 7: 323/
642; 636/588; xx. 17: 661/844; xxxiv. 28: 390/i885
Leviticus x. 9; 390/1895; six. 32: 326/744- xxi 9-
660/838
Deuteronomy xxxii. 32? 602/195
Judges xi. 29—40: 309, 10/240—4; xiii. 4: 320/55?;
xvi. 19—21: 354/721—3
1 Samuel u. 12: 666/897; ii. 30? 601/189; xxv. 2—34:
446/1369—71 ; xxv. 2—35: 210/2290; xxviii. 7—25 : 378/
1510
2 Samuel xvii. : 641/639
1 Kings xi. 12 : 472/2301 ; xix. 8: 890/1890
Job i. 21 : 203/2190; 430/871, 2; ii. 6: 877/1490; x.
20—22: 600/176, 7;:x. 22: 604/223; xii. 12: 214/23U'
xlii. 6? 597/134
Psalms i. 1: 217/2388; iv. 5: 682/540; viii. 1,2: 182/
1643, 4; x. 9: 882/1657, 8; xxxii. 6: 611/309; xxxiv.
14: 243/2882, 3; xxxvii. 17: 240/282O, 21 ; xlix. 7. 8 ?
648/7i6; Iv. 15: 628/442; Ixxvi. 5: 602/193; xcvii. 10-
611/307; cvii. 34: 604/22O ; cxix. 113: 596/125; cxxvii.
1: 228/2494; cxxxiii. 1—3: 245/2925
Proverbs i. 28? 599/i68; vi. 27: 662/854; viii 17-
648/709; xi. 7: 604/227; xi. 14: 216/2361 ; xi. 22: 5997
156; xii. 5: 216/2387: xii. 10? 602/204; xii. 11: 238/
2780; xiv. 13: 143/421—4; xiv. 29: 284/2703; xiv. 20
sv. 15, xix. 7: 132/115—21; xv. 4: 640/629; xv 16-
240/28x8, 19; xv. 18: 234/2704; xvi. 6: 596/U9; xvi.
7: 244/2909, 10 ; xvi. 24: 211/2303; xvi. 32: 234/27o6 ;
xvii. 1: 641/633; xvii. 22: 208/2185; xviii. 24: 214/
2349; xix. 11: 234/2702; xix. 15: 238/2779; xx. 3: 232/
2675 ; xxi. 9, 19 : xi. 22 : 355, 6/775—85 ; xxi. 19 : 210/
2277 ; xxi. 23 : 686/315 ; xxi. 25: 646/688 ; xxii. 1 : 240/
2828 ; xxii. 24 : 395/2O86, 7 ; xxiii. 9 : 206/2--37 ; xxv
16: 229/26o6: xxvi. 17: 286/2732; xxvii. 9: 214/2348';
xxvn. 15: 641/631; xxviii. 13, 14: 597/127; xxviii. 14:
223/2507, 8 ; 243/2886 ; xxviii. 15 : 684/568 ; xxviii. 23 :
215/2367 ; 244/2894, 95 ; xxiii. 5 ; xxviii. 22 : 237/2768,
9; xxix. 5: 216/2368; xxxi. 4, 5: 321/584
CHAUCER'S CAXT. TALES: ELLES. MS. 11
Ecdesiastes iii. 1 : 403/6 ; v. 3 : 642/649 ; vii. 28 : 207/
2247 : 471 2247, 8; ix. 10: 646679: x 19: 286/2740
Song of Solomon ii. 10, 11 : 468/2138—40
Isaiah xiv. 11? 602/198; xxxviii. 15: 597/13$ 5 674/
983; liii. 5: 609 ,'281 ; Ixvi. 24: 603/20*9
Jeremiah iv. 2 : 323/635 ; 637/592 ; vi. 16 : 593/77, ?8
EzeTdel ^.vm. 26: 600/236; xx. 43 : 598/141
Daniel ii. 596/126; vi. 16 et seq. : 144, 5/473 — 6- xiii.
(Vulgate) 656/797
Jonah i. 12—17 ; ii. 1—10 : 145/486, 7
Micah vii. 6: 602/2OI
Zechariah x. 5 : 628/434
Tobitiv. 19: 211/2308; vi. 17: 667/906
Judith viii. — xiii. : 210/2289 ; xiii. : 159/939 ; xiii. 8 :
446/1368
Ecclesiastic us ii. 14: 235/2729; iv. 30: 393/1989; vi.
5: 245/2930; vi. 6: 214/2357; vi. 14: 214/2351 ; viii. 17:
215/2363; xi. 29: 125/4331; xii. 10: 216/2376; xii. 13;
xiii. 1: 662/854; xix. 8: 213/2331; xxii. 6: 206/2235;
xxv. 25: 352/653 [?]: xxx. 23 : 203/2 186; xxxii. 24 : 203/
2193; xxxiii. 18: 246/2944 — 6; xxxiii. 20: 207 /2 2 50 ; xl.
28: 132/114; xii. 12: 240/2380
Story of Susanna: 150/639
1 Maccabees iii. 18, 19 : 241, 2/2851—3
Matthew i. 21: 609/286; iii. 8: 596/1 15; v. 3: 391/
1923 ; v. 3, 5, 6 : 683/ioSo : v. 9 : 242/2870 : 643/66i ; v.
14—16: 679/1036, 7; v. 28: 661/845; v. 34: 828/634;
686/589; v. 44: 681/526; vi. 9: vii. 3: 112/3919, 20;
vii. 20: 596/1 16; xii. 34: 640/627 ; xiv. 1—11 : 319/49O,
91; xiv. 15—21: 145/502 — 4; xix. 3: 886/74; xix- 5:
335/31; 661/842; xix. 17: 209/2269; xix. 21 : 337/io8—
10; xxiii. 27: 493/5i8, 19; xxv. 30: 603/2O8 ; xxvi. 41 :
680/1048; xxvi. 75: 675/994; xxvii. 37: 609/284
Mark vi. 37—44 : 888/145, 6 ; xvi. 9 : 209/2265
Luke v. 10: 888/1820; vii. 37, 38: 675/996; vii. 39;
629/504; x. 7: 392/1973; x. 18: 141/366; xv. 7: 647/
700; xv. 22—24: 647/7OI ; xvi. 19: 621/413; xviii. 13:
674/986 ; xxiii. 42 : 647 /7O2
John ii. 1—11: 334/u ; 668/919; iv. 18: 334/17—19;
viii. 3: 205/2223; 665/889; viii. 34: 598/142; xi. 35:
202/2177; xii. 4, 5: 629/502; xii. 6: 878/1351 ; xvi. i>4 :
648/705; xvii. 21? 642/643; xix. 17: 644/668; xix. 23:
644/665
Actsiv. 12: 609/287; viii. 18, 19: 655/783
Romans v. 10: 681/528; v. 12: 612/322; vi. 16, 17?
598/142; vii. 3: 335/49; yii. 24: 614/344; xi. 33: 228/
2596; xii. 15: 202/2*79; xii. 17: 222/2482; xii. 19: 231/
2650; xiii. 4: 280/2630, 31; xiii. 12: 640/385; xiv. 10:
.599/162 ; xv. 4 : 684/ioS3
1 Corinthians iii. 16? 682/544; iii. 17: 664/879; vi.
12 INDEX OP PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
10: 639/6ig; vi. 13: 319/522,3; vii. 3, 4: 670/940; viu
6: 336/65; vii. 9: 335/52 ; *• 13= 382/i66i ; xi. 3: 669/
922
2 Corinthians i. 12: 240/2824; iii. 6: 887/1794: iv. 17:
234/2700; vii. 10: 649/725; xi. 14: 376/1465; 666/895-,
xi. 23 : 614/343
Galatians v. 17 : 614/342 ; v. 19—21 : 668/867
Ephedans iv. 5, 6 : 534/2O7 — 209 ; iv. 26 : 682/540 ; v.
4: 642/651; v. 5: 662/748; v. 18: 818/484; v. 18: 660/
836 (Harl. MS.) ; v. 22—33: 338/i6o; v. 25, 28, 29: 447/
1384; v. 25: 661/843; 668/922; 669/929; v. 32: 668/918
Philippians iii. 18, 19 : 820/530—33 ; 658, 9/820
Colossiansni. 12: 681/1054; iii. 18: 641/634
1 Timothy ii. 9: 848/341—5; iv. 7: 590/33, 34; v- 6:
320/547, 8; vi. 8: 390/i88i; vi. 10: 212/2320; 250/3030^
651/739
2 Timothy ii. 24: 640/630; iii. 16: 800/4631, 2; iv. 7,
8: 541/386—390
James i. 4: 284/2707; 615/348; i. 5: 212/2309; i. 13:
439/1153; i. 22: 391/1937; ii. 13: 251/3059; ii. 17: 529/
64
1 Peter ii. 21—23: 288/2692—2694; iii. 1—6: 669/
930; v. 6: 675/988
2 Peter ii. 22: 597/138; iii. 9: 593/75
1 Johni. 8: 615/349; i. 9: 202/3075—7; iii. 15: 634/
565
Revelation ii. 5: 597/136; iii. 15: 684/565; iii. 16:
646/689; iii. 20 : 609/289; vii- 1— 3 : 145/491—4; ix. 6:
603/216; xii. 9: 141/366; xiv. 4: 186/1773—1775; xxi.
8: 661/841
Bigamy, defended by the wife of Bath, 334/9 e^- se(l-
Biheste is dette, 130/41
Bilyea, cited as an example of wifly chastity (omitted in-
the other MSS.), 521/1455
Blank-Parson Link ; the Manciple's tale ended, the Host,
calls on the Parson for a "fable," and the Parson replies,
that he'll get no fable from him, but " if that yow list to
heere moralitee and vertuous mateere, and thanne \>&t ye
wol yeue me audience, I wol f ayn, at Cristes reverence, do
yow plesaunce leeful as I kan ; " 589 — 91/1 — 74
Blee, or Blean Forest, on the route of the Pilgrims close-
to Canterbury, 576/3
Blood, nature's friend, 488/353
Boasting (Auauntynge), one of the twigs of Pride, 619/
391 ; defined, 619/393
Bob-up-and-down, supposed to be Harbledown, on the-
route of the Pilgrims to Canterbury, 576/2 ; but see J. M.
Cowper's letter to Athenaeum, Dec. 26, 1868, p. 886, and
Temporary Pref. to 6-T. ed. of C. T., p. 32
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 13
Boece. See Boethius
Boethius (Ancius Manlius Severinus), author of De Conso-
latione Philosophic; alluded to or quoted, 34/1 163 — 1 166;
37/1262, 1263; 86,86/2987—3016; 271/3677—3680; 367)
1159—1161, 1168; 468/1792—1794; 495, 496/6o8— 620;
Chaucer's translation of, alluded to, 684/io88
Boghton vnder Blee. See Boughton, 547/556
Bologna, a city of Italy, 422/589; 425/686; 427/763;
433/939; 437/1069
Boloigne. See Bologna and Boulogne
Bondys, Sir John of. See Boundys
Book of Fame. See House of Fame
Book of the Duchess, Chaucer's, alluded to, 684/io86
Book of the Leon, Chaucer's (now unknown), alluded to,
684/1087
Book of the .xxv. Ladies. See Legende of Goode Women
Book of Seint Yalentynes day or the parlement of briddes.
See Parlament of Foules
Bordeaux, a city of France, famous for its wines, 12/397 >
321/571
Boughton-under-Blean, a town on the route of the Pilgrims
near to Canterbury, 547/556
Boulogne, a seaport of France, on the English Channel,
14/465
Boundys (Bondys, Boundis, Boundes), Sir John of, the
father of the three brothers in the spurious tale of Gamely n,
p. 1, following 6-T. 128
Bounty. See Goodness
Bradwardine (Bradwardyn), Thomas, called the Pro
found Doctor, Archb. of Canterbury, author of " De causA,
Dei adversus Pelagium," 294/4432; probable allusion to,
300/4635
Bretagne, Brittany, in IS". France, 12/409 ; 500/729; 508/
992; 512/1159; 514/1221; 515/1240, 1268
Breton lays, sung to musical instruments, 500/712
Breton, adj. of Bretagne, 518/1179
Bretons, the early inhabitants of Brittany or Bretagne, in
France, 500/709
Briseis, a patronymic of Hippodamia, taken captive by
Achilles, 131/71
Britaigne. See Bretagne
Britain, England, 503/8 10
Britayne. See Bretagne
Briteyne. See Britain and Armorica
14 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Briton, 513/1179. Sec Breton of Bretagne
Briton, n. 147/56 1 ; adj. 151/666
Briton, adj. Breton, 500/7 1 l
Britons, natives of Britain, 147/545, 547 ; 859/858
Brixseyde (from accus. Briseida). See Briseis
Brok (badger), name of a grey horse, 878/1543
Bromholm, holy cross of, 128/4286
Bruges (Brugges), a city of Belgium, 169/1245, I25I>
175/1448; 176/1491; 191/1923
Brutus, Marcus Junius, one of the conspirators against
Julius Caesar, 278/3887, 3896; 620/1450
Brutus Cassius, spoken of as one person, 278/3887
Burdeux. See Bordeaux
Burnel, daun, the Asse. See Burnellus
Burnellus sen speculum Stultorum, of JSTigellus Wireker,.
temp. Rich. I, alluded to, 296/45O2
Busiris, king of Egypt, slain by Hercules, 259/3293
Busirus. See Busiris
Cacus, the giant slain by Hercules, 259/3297
Cadmus, founder of Thebes, 45/1546
Csesar, Caius Julius, the assassination of, portrayed on the
wall of the temple of Mais, 68/2031 ; death of, fore-written
in the stars, 186/199 ; the triumph of, alluded to, 142/4OO ;
story of, in the Monk's tale, 277—9/3861—3916
Cain, the son of Adam and murderer of Abel, 677/ioi5
Callisto (Calisto, Calistopee), daughter of Lycaon, king
of Arcadia, and companion of Diana, her metamorphosis
portrayed on the wall of Diana's temple (Ovid's Fasti, ii.
153), 59/2056—60
Cambalo, or Cambalus, son of the Tartar king, Cambyn-
skan, in the Squire's Tale, 479/31 ; 497/656
Cambalo, Canace's lover, in the Squire's Tale, who is to
fight in the lists against her two brothers, to win her, 497/
667
Cambridge, a university town of England, 118/3921 ; 115/
399°
Cambynskan, the Tartar king in Squire's Tale, 479/12,
28 ; 480/42, 58 ; 486/266 ; 488/345 J 497/66i
Cambyses, king of Persia, a story of his cruelty, 394, 51
2043—72
Cana (Cane) of Galilee, 334/n
Canaan, woman of (Matt. xv. 22—28), 529/59
Canaan, son of Noah's son Ham, 653/766
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. us. 15
Canace, the daughter of Aeolus, guilty of incest with
her brother (Ovid. Her. 11), 131 /;8
Canacee, daughter of the Tartar king, Camhynskan, in
the Squire's Tale, 479/33; 482/144; 483/i;8 ; 485/247;
486/277; 489/s6i, 384; 490/4io; 491/432, 449; 492/475,.
485 ; 496/63i, 633, 635, 638 ; 497/65i, 669
Cananee, adj. Canaanite, 529/59. See Canaan, woman
of
Cancer (Cancre), sign of the Zodiac, 461/1887; 470/
2224
Cane. See Cana
Canon, description of the, who joins the Pilgrims at
Boughton under Bleau, 547, 8/556—86
Canon's Yeoman's Preamble. The Yeoman speaks of his
seven years' hard and impoverishing experience with the
Canon, and of the frauds practised by the latter in Alchemy ;
552—59/720—971
Canon's Yeoman's Tale; a satire on the practice of
Alchemy. A Canon pretends to teacli a priest the
mystery of the science, and makes him believe by his
trickery that he converts quicksilver and copper into
silver, and for the receipt obtains from him forty pounds.
The Canon goes his way ; and when the priest would
make assay of this receipt, "farwel, it wolde nat be,"
560—71/972—1481
Cantebregge. See Cambridge
Cantebrigge. See Cambridge
Canterbury, a city of England, l/i6, 22, 27; 22/769;.
23/793, 801 1 549/624 ; 576/3
Canterbury Taltes, Chaucer's, alluded to, 684/io86
Capaneus, one of the seven heroes who besieged Thebes,.
28/932
Capella, Martianus Mineus Felix, author of De Nuptiis
Mercurii et Phfyologice, 456/1732 — 1738
Capitolie. See Capitolium
Capitolium, the temple of Jupiter, in Borne, on the Mons
Capitolinus, 2?8/3893, 95
Cappaneus. See Capaneus
Capricorn, sign of the Zodiac, 515/1248
Carpenter, among the Canterbury Pilgrims, 11/361
Carpenter's wife, in the Miller's Tale, described, 93, 94/
3233—70
Cartage, Cartagena in Spain (or Carthage?), 12/404. See
Carthage
Carthage, city in Africa, 298/4555; 5 19/1400
Cassiodorus (Magnus Aurelius), a Latin historian, etc., b.
1C INDEX OP PROPER NAMES AN-D SUBJECTS TO
ab. 468 A.D., quoted, 216/2386; 225/2538; 280/2628;
234/2718; 237/2754; 240/2832
Cassius, Cains, one of the assassinators of Caesar, 278/3887.
See Brutus Cassius
Cato, Dionysius, name assigned to the author of a Latin
work, entitled Dionysii Catonis Disticha de Moribus ad
Filium (4th cent.), quoted, 98/3227 ; 216/2371 ; 218/2406 ;
228/2496; 232/2679; 288/2784; 239/2792 ; 286/4130; 287/
4161,4166; 446/1377; 550/688
Caton. See Cato
Catonn. See Cato
Caucasus, mountain range between Europe and Asia, 367/
1140
Caunterhury, Caunturbury. See Canterbury
Caym. See Cain
Cecilia (Cecile, Cecilie), Saint, the patron saint of music ;
528/28 ; 547/554 ; the story of, told by Second Nun, from
the Golden Legend, 530 — 46/I2O — 553; significations im
puted to the name, 530, 81/85 — IJ9
Cecilies, gen. s. [St.] Cecilia's, 537/277. Evidently an
error in the MSS. for Valerians, which Skeat substitutes
Cedasus, whose daughters sleAv themselves, to preserve
* their virginity, 520/1428
Cenobia. See Zenobia
Centauros, Lat. ace. pi. \ See Centaurs
Centaurs, fabled monsters of anc. myth., half man and
half horse, 259/3289
Centesimus fructus, 668/869
Cerberus, the three-headed dog of hell, 259/3292
Cesar. See Csesar, Caius Julius
Ceuta (anc. Septa or Septum), a fortified town on the X.
coast of Africa, opposite Gibraltar, 160/947
Ceyx (Ceys) and Alcyone, the story of, told by Chaucer in
The £oke of the Duchesse, referred to by the Man of Law,
130/57
Chain of love, all things bound with the, 85/2987 — 93
Chaldsea, anc. name of Babylonia, 261/3347
Chaldeye. See Chaldaea
Chalons, coverlets (from Chalons in France ?) ; a bed with
sheetes and with chalons faire yspred, 119/4140
Chanon. See Canon
Chanticleer, name of the cock, in Nun's Priest's Tale, 283/
4039, et seq.
Charles the Great (Charlemagne), 268/3577
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES: ELLES. MS. 17
Charms for wounds or maladies of men and beasts, 638/
607. See Night- spell
Chaste women, examples of, 518 — 21/1368 — 1456
Chastity, Wife of Bath's opinion of, 388/138 et seq.; c. and
continence, a remedy against lechery, 668/915. 916: 1. in
marriage, 668 — 670/917 — 943 ; 2. in widowhood, 671/944 —
947 ; 3. in virginity, 671/948 — 950
Chaucer, his metres and ryming, and previous works,
spoken of by the Man of Law, 130/47 — 88 ; addressed and
described by the Host, 190/i885 — 1896; his reply when
interrupted in his Tale of Sir Thopas by the Host, 199/
2116 — 2118, 2126 — 2138; 200/2139—2156; his advice to
wives, in his Envoy to Patient Griselda, 440, 441/1177 —
12 1 2 ; takes his leave, and asks pardon for, and grace to
bewail, the sins committed in his books (which he enume
rates), 684, 686/1081—1092
Chauntecleer. See Chanticleer
Cheapside, a quarter of London, 22/754 ; 127/4377 ; 321/
564.. 569 ; 576/24
Chepe. See Cheapside
Chichiuache, i. e. lean cow ; a fabled cow that fed upon
patient wives, lean from the scarcity of her food, 441 /
1188
Chiding and Reproach, "unsowen the semes of freend-
shipe in mannes herte," spring from evil heart (Matt. xii.
34, Prov. xv. 4, St. Augustine, 2 Tim. ii. 24, Prov. xxvii.
15, xvii. 1, Coloss. iii. 18, quoted), 640, 641/622—634
Chilon. See Stilbon
Christ, the Saviour, 14/481; 15/527; 16/537 ; 20/698 ;
21/739; 95/3308; 99/3464; 100/3478, 3483,3504; 101 /
3508; 106/3711, 3717; 108/3767, 3782; 117/4084; 122/
4263; 125/4327, 4349; 132/io6; 137/237; 138/258, 277,
283; 139/318; 144/450; 145/479,501; 146/5II; 147/538,
549, 561, 565, 567; 148/570, 574; 150/636 ; 151/686, 690,
693; 152/721; 154/760,766; 155/8i i ; 156/825; 168,902;
159/924; 160/950; 161/993; 163/1041 ; 165/1 123; 166/
1160; 183/i682, 1696; 184/1700, 1705, 1728; 186/1740,
1746; 186/1787, 1793; 187/i8o8; 188/1842, 1846; 199/
2134; 202/2177; 205/2223; 209/2264, 2265; 222/2491;
223/2492 ; 228/2602 : 229/26o8, 2610; 233/2691 ; 305/8l ;
314/340; 319/501; 320/532; 321/593; 823/652,658; 325/
709; 330/898, 916; 331/946; 334/io, 15; 337/107; 338/
139, 146; 344/365; 347/469; 354/717; 368/1181; 370/
1258, 1261; 373/1347; 379/i56i; 380/1590; 881/1647;
882/1654, 1662; 886/1762; 888/1821; 889/1867,1871;
390/1884, 1904; 391/1921, 1935, 1946, 1949; 392/1977;
447/1384; 468/2171; 540/383; 559/967; 561/1002; 563/
1072; 564/1122: 573/1467: 593/79; 594/94; 595/1 10 ;
596/115, "6, 124; 599/i62; 603/208; 606/246,255; 607/
267, 269 ; 608/270, 272, 273, 275, 277 ; 609/282, 284, 285,
286, 287, 289; 612/314, 315 ; 616/358, 360 ; 618/382, 384,
ELLES. INDEX. 0
18 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
385; 621/413; 622/429; 624/447; 629/so2, 504; 681/526'
528; 633/558; 634/559; 636/588, 590, 591 ; 637/593, 596'
597, 598 ; 640/623,625 ; 641/638 ; 642/642,643 ; 643/652>
66 1 ; 644/663, 665, 666, 668, 669 ; 646/674, 679 ; 646/689 ;
647/697, 700, 702, 703 ; 648/704, 708 ; 661/745, 747 ; 653/
767,768; 664/776; 656/791; 657/8oi, 808 ; 658/8i 1,817;
659/820; 661/842,843; 664/878,879, 882, 884; 666/889;
666/902 ; 667/906 ; 668/922 ; 669/925, 929 ; 670/933 ; 671/
944, 948, 950 ; 672/959 ; 673/97O ; 675/994, 996, 997 ; 676/
1002, 1007; 677/1015; 678/1023; 679/1035 J 680/1039,.
1040, 1048; 681/1053, 1054; 682/1067, 1070; 688/1072,
1076; 684/io8i, 1084, 1087, 1089; Gam. 6/139, 159; 7/
231 ; 10/323
Christendom, Christian lands, 2/49 ; the Christian religion,.
141/351,378; 664/875,876
Christian, n. a professor of the religion of Christ, 147/
540 ; 637/595 ; 638/6o8
Christian, adj. professing, or relating to, the religion of
Christ, 2/55; 136/222; 141/369, 380; 142/386; 143/4 16 ;
147/541, 547 ; 160/956 ; 164/iogo ; 188/1679, 1685, 1687 ;
187/1 804 ; 637/596 ; 666/902, 903
Christianity, the religion of Christ, 147/544
Christmas, the festival in memory of the birth of Christ,.
132/126; 184/1730
Christopher, Saint, an image of, worn as a brooch, 4/115
Chrysostom, St., a Greek Father of the Church, archb. of
Constantinople, b. ab. 347, d. 407 ; 595/1 09
Church; hooly chirches good moot ben despended on
hooly chirches blood that is descended, 114/3983, 3984
Church pillage, the sin of, 658/767 — 9 ; c. pillagers, the
devil's wolves (St. Augustine), 608/768
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, the Eoman orator, quoted, etc.,
214/2355 ; 216/2366, 2370 ; 216/2382 ; 217/2391 ; 226/2529,
2534, 2537; 226/2545, 2549, 2550; 227/2571,2577,2580,.
2583; 238/2775; 239/28n; 251/3050; 287—91/4174—
4294; 500/722
Cipion. See Scipio
Cipre. See Cyprus
Circe, the sorceress, 56/1944
Circes. See Circe
Cirus. See Cyrus
Cithaeron (Citheron), mount, sacred to Venus, 56/1936 ;
64/2223
Citherea. See Cytherea
Claudianus, Claudius, a Eoman epic poet ; his De Raptu
Proserpince alluded to, 470/2232
Claudius, Appius, the Eoman Decemvir, rendered infamous
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 19
by his attempt to dishonor Virginia, 307/154; 808/178,
204 ; 309/227 ; 310/265, 267
Claudius, Marcus, the client and tool of Appius Claudius,
the decemvir, who claimed Virginia as his slave, 307/153 >
308/179; 310/26g
Claudius II. (Marcus Aurelius Claudius), Emperor of
Eome, A.D. 268—270, 267/3525
Clemency (Clemence), the goddess, 28/928
Clerk, or scholar, of Oxford, description of the, among the
Canterbury Pilgrims, 9/285 — 3°8
Clerk-Merchant Link ; the merchant complains of his
wife and brings her " passyng crueltee" into contrast with
Griselda's "grete pacience ;" 442/12 13 — 44
Clerk's Head-Link ; the Host addresses the Clerk and asks
him for " som murie thyng of auentures," and the Clerk
replies that he will tell a tale he learned at Padua of a
worthy clerk, Francis Petrarch, " the lauriat poete ; " 403,
4/1-56
Clerk's Tale of Patient Griselda, 405— 41/57— 1212
Clitermystra. See ClytaBmnestra
Clytsemnestra, or Clytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon, her
adultery and murder of her husband, alluded to, 864/737
Cock, description of a, 283, 4/4039 — 54
Coitu, De. See De Coitu
Cokkes, a corruption of Goddes, God's ; for Cokkes bones.
576/9; 590/29
Coldness, the sin of, that freezes all the heart of man,
649/722
Colle, name of a dog, 298/4573
Cologne (Coloigne), a city of Prussia, 14/466
Colossians (Colonienses), Epistle of St. Paul to the, 641/
634
Comestor, Petrus, Biblical commentator of the 12th cent.,
author of Historia Scholastica ; maxim (the latter ende of
ioye is wo) from, 293/4395 ; his work alluded to as "the
stories," 318/488
Comparisons and Similes : 8/69,81, 89, 92; 5/152, 170,
171; 6/198, 202, 205, 207; 7/238, 239; 8/257, 263, 268;
9/287; 10/332; 11/358; 16/552, 553, 556, 559! 17/590,
592; 18/605, 621, 626; 20/684, 688; 22/774; 81/1035—
37; 34, 35/1177—80; 37/I26I ; 88/1301, 2 ; 40/1364; 44/
1502; 46/1598; 47,48/1637—46; 48/1656, 1657, 1658,
59; 49/1699,1702; 50/1713; 52/i8io; 61/2133; 62/2159,
2171, 2174; 68/2178; 70/2437; 72/2529; 75/2626—29,
2630—33; 81/2831—33; 93/3247—49; 94/3255, 56, 3257,
58, 3259, 60, 3261, 62, 3263, 64, 3266, 3282; 95/3310,
33H, 15, 3317, 3324; 97/3377; 99/3444, 45; 100/3472;
101/3518; 102/3576; 106/3704, 3706; 107/3731, 3759;
20 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
109/3807; 111/3871; 113/3926, 3935, 3950; 114/3964,
3974; 118/4107; 119/4154,4163; 121/4206; 123/4278;
127/4367, 4368, 4373; Gam. 4/125; 8/263; 12/395! 13/
423; 129/23, 24; 141/36i; 149/617; 153/745; 154/774;
163/1054; 169/1228, 1241; 171/1294,95; 174/1399; 178/
1559; 191/1915— 17, 1920; 192/1936, 37; 195/2024; 196/
2057,2069, 70; 197/2094, 95; 203/2187; 204/2256; 253/
3106; 254/3124; 262/3365, 3366; 284/4041, 4049, 4050,
4051, 4052, 4053, 4054; 293/4369; 295/446o; 298/4579;
314/331 ; 316/397 ; 320/556 ; 341/246, 267 ; 346/429, 448,
456; 347/458, 465, 66; 352/637; 806/785, 794; 809/869;
362/972; 864/1034; 365/io8i, 1095; 372/1327; 378/1339,
40; 374/1369—72; 888/1667, 1687, 88; 884/1693—95:
887/1804; 888/1825, 1829; 891/1930, 1931, 1938—41;
395/2090; 397/2i52,2i6o; 400/2268; 403/2, 3; 407/121;
420/538; 434/996, 998; 436/1047; 441/1196, 1199, 1200,
1206, 1211 ; 445/1315; 449/1465, 66; 450/1672,73; 457/
1748; 458/1786; 459/i8i8, 1824, 25, 1848; 461/1896;
468/1990; 464/2013, 14: 465/2057— 64 ; 466/2o8o ; 467/
2108; 468/2156; 471/2275; 473/2322; 474/2364,65; 476/
2426; 484/204; 489/384—6; 490/409; 492/474; 493/512,
13, 518, 19; 507/950: 534/195, 198, 199; 542/438, 39;
547/576, 580, 81 ; 556/886; 658/947—50; 570/1342, 43;
572/1397, 1413; 585/294; $86/340 — 42; 596/113, 122;
598/139; 599/157:616/363,364; 618/384: 621/411; 622/
424; 688/548, 551, 552; 639/620; 649/7 18 ; 658/8i6 ;
662/858; 668/870,871; 664/879; 666/898,899; 667/907,
911; 672/954
Concord, the power of, 242/2865 — 70
Concupiscence, " which yet is cleped norrissynge of synne
and occasion of synne," 614/337 et seq. ; St. Paul quoted,
his own temptation, 614, 15/345, 46 ; St. James the apostle,
and St. John the Evangelist, quoted, 615/348, 49
Confession, the branches and leaves of the tree of penitence,
596/114; defined, 612/318 — 20; thev2d essential of peni
tence, 672/958 ; conditions of a true and profitable c., 674
• — 6/982 — 1006 ; true shrift asketh certain conditions, 677,
8/IO12 — 26
Constance, the heroine of the Man of Law's Tale, 134/1 51 ;
135/i84; 136/208; 137/226, 241, 245, 249; 188/264, 274,
278; 139/319; 143/431,438; 144/446; 146/536; 147/556;
148/570, 576, 583, 597; 149/6o8, 612; 150/631, 651 ; 151/
679', 682, 684, 689, 693; 152/719; 155/797, 803, 817; 156/
822 ; 158/900, 906, 908 ; 159/912, 924; 160/945, 953, 970;
161/978,986; 162/iooS, 1009, 1030, 1033; 163/1047; 165/
1105, 1107, 1125, 1129; 166/1141, 1145, 1147
Constancy, or stability of spirit, a remedy against Accidie,
or Sloth, 650/737
Constantius Afer, a native of Carthage, a monk of Monte
Cassino, and one of the founders of the School of Salerno
(llth cent.), 13/433 ; his work, De Coitu, alluded to, 458/
1810
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 21
Constantyn. See Constantius Afer
Constellation, causeth often to do or say 'amiss, 502/783
Contention (" Contek with blody knyf1 and sharpemanace"),
portrayed on the wall of the temple of Mars, 68/2003
Continence, Wife of Bath's opinion of, 337/io6 et seq.
Contra Jovinianum, a bitter diatribe by St. Jerome, against
matrimony, alluded to, 868/675 — 68 1
Contrition of heart, an essential of Penitence, 595/io8 ;
the root of the tree of Penitence, 596/1 13 ; 4 things to be
understood about c., 597/128; the 6 causes that ought to
move a man to c., 597 — 609/133 — 291 ; must be universal
and total, 610, 611/292 — 307 ; wherein availeth c., 611, 612/
308—315
Contumacy, one of the twigs of Pride, 619/391 ; defined,
620/402
Cook, description of the, among the Canterbury Pilgrims,
11,12/379-387
Cook's Prologue; the Cook expresses his joy at the Reeve's
Tale ; cites Solomon, "Ne brynge nat every man in-to thyn
hous. ffor herberwynge by nyglite is perilous," and offers
to tell " a litel iape that lil in oure citee." The Host ac
cedes, but tells him to look that it be good, for that he
has prepared many bad dishes, 125, 126/4325 — 4364
Cook's Tale, of a riotous London apprentice, " cleped
Perkyn Reuelour " (left unfinished), 127, 128/4365 — 4422
Copulation, permissible between man and wife for 3 causes,
1. begetting of children, 2. to pay, each to other, the debt
of their bodies, 3. to avoid lechery, 670/939 — 942 ; unre
strained indulgence, deadly sin, 670/943
Cor meum eructauit, 391/1934
Corinth (Corynthe), an ancient city of Greece, 322/6o4
Counsel ; " werk al by conseil and thou shalt nat rewe,"
101/3530; 203/2193; "good conseil wanteth whan it is
moost nede," 206/2238; the taking of, 211, 212/2305 — 2310;
three obstacles to good counsel, " ire, coueitise, and hastif-
nesse," 212/2311 — 2325; to be kept secret, 218/2329 — •
2346; with whom it should be taken, 214, 215/2347 — 2361 ;
the counsel of fools, flatterers, reconciled enemies, servants,
drunkards, and young folk, to be eschewed, 215, 216/2362 —
2389; how counsel should be examined, after the teaching
of Cicero, 217, 218/2390 — 24.12; when and wherefore a
man may change his counsel, 218, 219/2413 — 2421 ; Dame
Prudence's opinion of the several counsellors, good and bad,
of Melibeus, 219/2431 et seq. ; wicked counsel (as Ahitho-
phel's to Absalom), its effect, 641/639 — 640; not to be
taken of false or angry folk, 641/641
Counsellors, must be true, wise, and of old experience,
214, 215/2359 > many c. sometimes necessary, 216/2360,
2361
22 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Courtesy (debonairetee) , a remedy against Ire, 643/655 >
St. Jerome and the philosopher, quoted, 643/657, 8
Covetousness, the evils of, 212/2320 — 22 ; 250/3030 ; one
of the Seven Deadly Sins. See Avarice
Creon, king of Thebes, 28/938, 961; 29/963, 986; 30/
1 002
Cresus. See Croesus
Crete, an island of the Mediterranean, 29/980 ; 354/733
Crisippus, an author in Jerome's Contra Jovinianum (the
Stoic ?), 353/677
Crisostom, Seint lohn. See Chrysostom, Sc.
Crist, Cristen, Cristene, n. Cristiene, adj. Cristemasse,
Cristendom. See Christ, Christian, Christmas, Christendom
Cristophere. See Christopher, Saint
Cristyanytee. See Christianity
Croesus, king of Lydia, proverbial for his riches ; portrayed
on the wall of the temple of Venus, 66/1946 ; story of, in
Monk's Tale, 279, 80/3917—56
Cross of Christ, Constance's invocation to, 144/451 — 62
Crows, why they are all black and have harsh voices, 5S5/
29?.— 308
Cruelty joined to might, 271/3683, 84
Cuckoo, the bird of Jealousy, 56/1930
Cupid, god of Love, invoked, 47/1623, 24; described, 57/
1963 — 66 ; the seintes legende of Cupide, 130/6 1
Cupide, Cupido. See Cupid
Cursing that comes of irons heart (simile of a bird returning
to its nest), 639/6 19 — 21
Custance. See Constance
Cutberd, seint. See Cuthbert
Cuthbert, St., Bp, of Lindisfarne, 118/4127
Cyprus, island in the Mediterranean, 268/3581
Cyrus, the Great, king of Persia, 279/3918; 390/2079
Cytherea, an appellation of Venus, 64/2215
Dalida, 258/3253. See Delilah
Damascene (Damyosene, 1, 2, 5 ; Damassene, 3 ; Damas
cene, 4 ; Damasene, 6), the field of, where Adam was
created, and where afterwards Damascus was supposed to
stand, 266/3197
Damascenus (Damascien), Johannes, an Arabian physician,
13/433
Damasie, Seint. See Damasus
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 23
Damasus I., St., bishop of Eome (366 — 384), quoted on
simony, 666/788
Damned, the, 7 causes why they are without hope, 604/
224 ft seq.
Damocles, a parasite at the court of Dionysius the Elder ;
probable allusion to the story of, 68/2028 — 30
Damyan, the Squire in Merchant's Tale, in love with May,
the wife of Jtmuary, 457/1 772 ; 468/1789; 460/1869, 1875 ;
461/1898, 1900; 462/1923, 1933, 1936; 468/1979; 464/
2002, 2009, 2019; 466/2093, 2097; 467/2120; 468/2150,
2152; 469/2207; 470/22IO; 478/2326, 2352; 474/236i ;
475/2394
Damyssene. See Damascene
Dane, 59/2062 — 64. See Daphne
Daniel (Danyel), the Hebrew prophet, 144, 145/473 —
76; 261/3344—56; 268/3399; 291/43i8; 596/i26; 672/
955
Dante Alighieri (Danf), the Italian poet, 270/3651 ; 366/
1126, 27 ; 378/1520
Dantes, yen. s. See Dante Alighieri
Daphne, her metamorphosis into a bay-tree, portrayed on
the wall of Dian's temple (Ovid's Met. I. 450), 69/2062 — 64
Darius, the Great, king of Persia, 263/3427 ; 276/3838 ;
allusion to his tomb, " which that Appelles wroghte
subtilly," 348/498
Dartmouth, a seaport of England, in Devonshire, 12/389
David, king of Israel, the Psalmist, 159/935 j 210/2290;
217/2388; 223/2493; 240/2820; 245/2925; 391/1933; 586/
345; 596/125; 602/193,204; 604/220; 611/307,309; 623/
442; 632/540; 648/7 16
Day of Judgment, dread of the, should move to contrition,
599/158—165
Death, portrayed on the wall of the temple of Mars, " the
colde deeth with mouth gapyng vp right,' ' 68/2008 ; death
of Arcite, described, 80/2798 — 2814 ; " an ende of euery
worldes soore," 81/2849; in the stars is written every
man's death, 186/194 — 6 ; the face of one led to his death,
described, 150/645 — 5°! taketh of heigh and logh his rente,
166/1 142 ; personified, 324/675 — 701 ; "manaceth euery age
and smyt In ech estaat," 407/122, 3; when it comes, uncer
tain, 407/125, 6
Deceiver; "A gylour shal hym self bigyled be," 124/4321
December, the twelfth month, 515/1244
* De Civitate Dei,' St. Augustine's, 652/754
' De Coitu,' a medical work, by Constantius Afer (llth
Cent), 458/i8u
24 IXDEX OF PROPER N'AMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Dei'anira, or Deianeira (Dejanira), wife of Hercules, 131/
66; 260/3310; 354/725
Delights of the five senses, loss of the, in hell, 608/207
et seq.
Delilah, the woman loved by Samson (Judges xvi.), 258/
3253
Delphi, the seat of the celebrated oracle of Apollo, 510/
1077
Delphos. See Delphi
Demetrius (perhaps Demetrius Nlcator, king of Syria, who
was defeated and taken prisoner by the Parthians, 138 B.C.
Skeat), 322/621
Demociones doghter (Democionis Ariopagitarum principis
virgo, Latin note), slew herself, to preserve her virginity,
620/1426
Demophon. See Demophob'n
Demophoon, or Demophon, a king of Athens, son of
Theseus and Phaedra, enamoured of Phyllis, 131/65
Denis (Denys), St., patron saint of France, 1st bp. of Paris,
172/1341. See St. Denis, a suburb of Paris
Denmark, a country of Europe, 357/824
Denys, Seint, suburb of Paris. See St. Denis
Deptford (Depeford), a town of England, on the Thames,
112/3906
Dertemouthe, 12/389. See Dartmouth
Desires of men ; no one knoweth his own good, 37/1255
-67
Despair of God's mercy. See Wanhope
Despite, one of the twigs of Pride, 619/391 ; defined, 619,
395
Destiny, characterized, 48/1663 — 72j may not be eschewed,.
297/4528
Devil. See Satan
Deyscorides. See Dioscorides
Diana, goddess of chastity, hunting, etc., 49/i682 ; 55/
1912 ; 66/2274 ; 519/1390 ; paintings on the walls of her
temple, 59, 60/2054 — 88 ; Emily's sacrifice and invocation
to, in Knight's Tale, 65 — 8/2171 — 2366
Diane. See Deianira
Dianira, Dianyre. See Dei'anira
Dido, queen of Carthage, 130/64
Dioscorides Pedanius, a Greek botanist, born at Anazarba,
in Cilicia, lived between 50 and 200 A.D., 18/430
Discipline, an essential of bodily penance, in Avhat it con
sists, 681/1052—6
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 25
Discord, fatal to riches, 242/2867 j the sin of sowing and
making- d., 641,2/642, 3
Disobedience, one of the twigs of Pride, 619/391 ; defined,
619/392
Dispositions, different influences of the planets Mercury
and Venus upon, 808/697 — 705
Dives, the rich man of the Parable (Luke xvi. 19), " Lazar
and diues lyueden diuersly," 889/1877
Divinations, forbidden of God, 688/605, 6
Doctor of Physic, description of, among the Canterbury
Pilgrims, 12, 18/411 — 44
Doctor-Pardoner Link ; the Host comments feelingly on
the Doctor's Tale and then calls on the Pardoner to tell
" sorn myrthe or Tapes right anon," 312, 18/287 — 32^
Doctor's Tale, of Virginius and his daughter Virginia,
303—11/1—286
Donegild', mother of ^Ella, king of Northumberland, in
Man of Law's Tale, 162/695 ; 168/740 ; 154/778 ; 166/805 ;
168/896
Dorigene, or Dorigen, wife of Arveragus, in Franklin's
Tale, 503/815; 606/919, 926, 936; 610/1090; 521/1457,.
1469, 1488; 622/1500; 623/1542, 1551 ; 625/1598
Double tongue, the sin of, 642/644
Douere. See Dover
Dover, a seaport town in Kent, England, 125/4347. See
Jack of Dover
Dreams, subject of, discussed by the cock and the hen,
in Nun's Priest's Tale, 285 — 92/41 1 1 — 4346 ; stories of,.
287-91/4174-4294
Drunkards, the counsel of, to be eschewed, 216 '2383, 2384
Drunkenness, the vices of; " Ther dronkeiiesse regneth in
any route, Ther is no conseil hyd with outen doute," 154/
776, 777 ; examples of the evil effects of d. and gluttony,
318 — 21/485 — 588; story of Cambyses' cruelty from d.r
394, 6/2043 — 78 ; the horrible sepulture of man's reason,.
669/822—4
Du Guesclin, Bertrand (1314 — 1380), a great French
general, and constable of France ; covertly alluded to,,
through a description of his arms, 268/3573 — 75
Dun is in the myre, 576/5
Dunmow (in Essex) bacon, a reAvard of concord in marriage^
340/217, 8
Dunstan, St., Archb. of Canterbury (b. 925, d. 988), 377/
1502
Dyane. See Diana
Each man for himself, 80/1182
*26 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Earnest ; " men shal not maken ernest of game," 91/3186
Easter, the Church festival in memory of the Resurrection,
633/552
Ebrayk1. See Hebrew
Echo, a nymph in love with Narcissus (Ovid, Met. 3, fab.
5), 507/95 1
Ector. See Hector
Edward, St., the Confessor, 255/31 60
Egeus, father of Theseus, in Knight's Tale, 81/2838 ; 83/
2905
Egipcien, Egypcien; Egipte. See Egyptian, Egypt
Eglentyne (4, 5, 6, Englentyne), Madame, name of the
Prioress of the Canterbury Pilgrims, 4/I2I
Egypcien Marie. See Mary, St., the Egyptian
Egypt, a country in Africa, 291/4323
Egyptian, adj. of Egypt, 1 45/500; n. native of Egypt,
267/3528
Ekko. See Echo
Elation, one of the twigs of Pride, 619/391 ; defined,
620/400
Eleyne, seint, mother of Constantine the Great, 331/951.
See Helena
Eleyne, wife of Menelaus. See Helen
Elf-queen, queen of the elves or fairies, 359/86o
Eliachim (A. V., Joacim), the high-priest in Jerusalem, in
the time of Judith (Judith iv. 6, 14), 274/3756
Elijah (Elye), the Tishbite, his fasting, 390/1890
Elisha (Elise), the Hebrew prophet ; friars have been since,
396/2 1 1 6
Elpheta, wife of the Tartar king Cambynskan, 479/2Q
Elves, fairies, supplanted by limitours and other holy
friars, 869/857—864
Elye. See Elijah, the Tishbite
Emelewardl, towards Aemilia, 404/51. Skeat explains
" towards the -ZEmilian way." See ^Emilia
Emelye, sister of Hippolyta, wife of Theseus, in the
Knight's Tale, loved by Palamon and Arcite, 26/871 ; 29/
972 ; 31/1035 ; et seq.
Emetreus (2, 6, Emetrius), king of Ind, in the train of
Arcite, described, 62, 3/2155—86 ; 76/2638 ; 76/2645
Empty hand ; " With empty hand men may none haukes
tulle," 119/4134; 345/415
End; "Som tyme an ende ther is of euery dede," 75/2636
Endor. See Witch of Eudor, 378/1510
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 27
Enee. See ^Sneas, 130/64
Enemies, the counsel of reconciled, to be eschewed, 215,
216/2372—2379
Eneydos, gen. sing. See ^Eneid, 208/4549
England (EngeloncU), l/i6; 17/sSo; 61/2113; 166/1130;
331/921; 372/1322; 373/1340; 503/Sio ; 570/1356
Englentyne, Madame. See Eglentyne
English (Englissh), (E. language), 130/49; 154/778; 480/
- 37 ; 527/2
Ennok. See Enoch
Enoch, the patriarch, friars have been since, 396/2 116
Envy, St. Augustine's description of, 806/115, 16; one of
the Seven Deadly Sins, 627 — 80/484 — 514 ; its remedy, 630,
^ 31/515-31
Ephesians, Epistle of St. Paul to the, 652/742, 748
Ephesios, ad. See Ephesians
Epicurus, the Greek philosopher, 10/336
Epistola Valerii ad liufinum, de non ducenda uxore (by
Walter Mapes ?) alluded to, 352/671
Ercules. See Hemiles
Eriphyle (Eriphilem), wife of Amphiaraus, whom she be
trayed, 354/744
Ermyn, an Armenian, 267/3528
Ernest of game. See Earnest
Eros, the god of love, 40/1374
Erro. See Hero
Erymanthian boar, slain by Hercules, 259/3299
Esculapius. See JEsculapius
Essex, a county in the east of England, 340/21 8
Esther (Ester), the Jewish queen of Ahasuerus, and cousin
and ward of Mordecai, 210/2291 ; 446/1371 ; 457/1744
Ethiopian (Ethiopeen), a native of Ethiopia, 615/345
Euclid (Euclude), the famous Greek geometrician, 40 1/
2289
Europe, one of the grand divisions of the earth, 134/1 6 1
Eva. See Eve
Evangelist (Euaungelist), a writer of one of the four
Gospels, 199/2133
Evangiles (Euaungiles), Gospels, 151/666
Eve (Eua, Eva), the wife of Adam, 141/368; 354/715;
445/1329; 529/62; 612/325; 613/331,332; 630/516; 658/
819
Evil-doer must not expect good, 124/4320
28 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Extortions from underlings, to be condemned, 653/764
Exodus, the Book of, 652/750
Ezechias, or Hezekiah, king (Isa. xxxviii.), 674/983
Ezechiel (Ezechie), f or Ezechias, or Hezekiah (Isa. xxxviii.),.
674/983
Ezekiel, the Hebrew prophet, 597/135; 598/140, 143;
605/236
Face of one led to his death, described, 150/645 — 50
Eairies, the land full of, in days of Arthur, 859/857 — 72
Faith and hope in God and His saints, a remedy against
Accidie or Sloth, 660/734
Falcon, the love-lorn bird in the Squire's Tale, whose
language Canacee understands by virtue of the magic
ring; described, 490, 491/409 — 431; her love-story, 492 —
496/499—631
False oaths come of Avarice, 656/795
False witness comes of Avarice, 656/795 j in """hat it-
consists, 666/796, 797
Fame, House of, 684/io86. See House of Fame
Family foe, the dangers of the, 458/1783 — 1787; " wel
oghte a man auysed for to be whom that he broghte in-to
his pryuetee," 126/4333, 4334
Fashion, no new, that is not old, 61/2125
Fasting, the necessity and merit of, 389, 390/1879 — 1916 ;
its efficacy (St. Jerome quoted), 680/1047 • consists in 3
things : forbearing 1. meat and drink, 2. worldly jollity,
3. deadly sin, 681/1049 ; ordained by God, 681/1050 ; 4
strings appertain to f., liberality to the poor, spiritual glad
ness of heart, not grudging at fasting, seasonable and
moderate eating, 681/1050, 1051
Fate, may not be escaped, 297/4528
Fathers and mothers, advice to, on their responsibility,.
305, 306/93—102
Faucon. See Falcon
Feeble trees; "of fieble trees ther comen wrecched ympes,"
254/3146
Feeld hath eyen and the wode hath eres, 44/1522
Felony, portrayed on the wall of the temple of Mars, 57/
1995, 1996
Ferrara (Ferrare), a city of Italy, on the Po, 404/51
Finisterre, cape of, a promontory at X. W. extremity of
Spain, 12/408
First to mille, who so comth, first grynt (first come, first-
served), 340/389
CHAUCER S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 29
Fish, a sign of the Zodiac, 486/273
Fish street, in the City of London, close to the Thames,
321/564
Five senses, loss of the delights of the, in hell, 603/207
et seq.
Flanders, a country of Europe, 3/86; 178/1389; 174/
1429; 176/1490 ,-"191/1909; 318/463
Flatterers, the counsel of, to be eschewed, 215/2365 ;
Cicero, Solomon, and Cato, quoted, 215/2366 — 71 ; the
devil's nurses, his enchanters, and chaplains, 639/6 13,
615—17
Flattery, beware of, 297/4515 — -20; the evil consequences
of listening to, 297—300/4521—4627 ; the vice of (Solomon
quoted), 639/6 12—1 8
Flaundres. See Flanders
Fleming, a native of Flanders, 126/4357 ; 299/4586; 587/
349
Florence, a city of Italy, 366/1125
Fools, the counsel of, to be avoided, 215/2363
Forbearance (Suffrance), a remedy -against Ire, 643/656
Force ; leueful is, with force force of showue (vim vi
repellere), 112/3912
Foreknowledge of God, the vexed question as to the,
294, 295/4424—41
Forest, description of a, painted on the wall of the temple
of Mars, 57/1975—80
Forgiveness, who is worthy to have, 247/2963 — 5
Fortitude, a remedy against Accidie or Sloth, 650/728 —
37
Fortune, the goddess, 27/925; 32/io86 ; 36/1238 — 42;
37/1253,54; 230,231/2640—45; 256/3185,865260/3326—
32; 264/3431-35; 268/3587, 88; 270/3635 ; 272/37o9-
16; 273/3740; 273/3746-48; 276/3833; 277/3851; 279/
3912—16; 280/3953-56; 299/4593, 94; 312/295—300;
455/2057—64; 518/1355—67
Fox, description of a, 285/4089 — 95
France, a country of Europe, 171/1306 ; 172/1341
Franklin, description of the, among the Canterbury Pil
grims, 10, 11/331 — 60; never learned rhetoric, 500/719;
nor slept on Parnussus, 5CO/72I ; nor learned Cicero, 500/
722
Franklin's Tale, of Arveragus, and his wife Dorigene, "that
loueth hire housbonde as hire hertes lyf," 500 — 525/729 —
1624
Free will, the vexed question of, 294, 5/4424 — 41
Friar, description of the, among the Canterbury Pilgrims,
30 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
7, 8/208 —69 ; a skirmish of words between him and the
Summoner, 357/829 — 49; "a flye and eek a frere Wol falle
in euery dyssh and mateere," 867/835, 6; "fEreres and
feendes been but lyte a-sonder," 888/1674
Friar -Summoner Link ; the Summoner vents his rage
against the Friar for the latter' s derogatory story of a
Summoner and the Devil, 383, 4/1665 — 17°8
Friar's Prologue ; the Friar vilifies Summoners ; the Sum
moner threatens to pay him back when his turn comes to
tell a story; the Host bids the Friar tell forth his tale, 371/
1265 — 1300
Friar's Tale, of a Summoner and the Devil, 372 — 382/1301
— 1664
Friday, alluded to as an unlucky day, 45/1534 — 1539 ;
297/4531, 4541, 4542
Frideswide (or Fredeswyde T), St., a Saxon, patroness of a
Priory at Oxford, 99/3449
Friends, grief for the loss of, should be moderate, 202/
2182 ; the value of true friends as counsellors, 214, 215/
2347 — 2361 ; should obey each other, 601/762, 763 ; loss of,
in hell, 602, 608/199—206
" Fruyt (the) of euery tale is for to seye," 152/7o6
Frydeswyde. See Frideswide
Funeral of Arcite, described, 81/2853 et seq.; funeral pile,
and burning of Arcite's body, described, 88/2913 et seq.
Future, the, uncertain; " A man woot litel what hym shal
bityde," 99/3450
Fyshstrete. See Fish Street, 321/564
Galatea (Galathee), mistress of Pamphilus, in a Med. Latin
poem of the latter name, 511/1 no
Galen (Claudius Galienus), a celebrated physician of an
tiquity, b. 130 A.D., 13/431 ; 660/831. See Galionea
Galgopheye (4, Galgopheie; 5, Galgopleye; 6, Golgopheie),
the vale of, allusion uncertain ; Morris supposes the vale
of Gargaphie (Ovid's Met. iii. 155, 156), 76/2626
Galicia (Galice, a province of Spain), the shrine of St.
James at Compostella, in, 14/446
Galien. See Gallienus and Galen
Galilee, Cana of, 334/n
Galiones, medicinal potions (?) named from Galen, the
ancient physician, 812/306
Gallienus, Emperor of Eome, 260—268 A.D., 267/3526
Gallup, Caius, or Cnaeus Sulpitius, Roman consul, B.C. 166 ;
his repudiation of his wife alluded to, 862/643 — 6
Galyen. See Galen
Gambling. See Hazardry
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 31
Game; "men shal nat maken ernest of game," 91/3186 ;
"a man may seye ful sooth in game and pleye," 126/4355
Gamelyn, the spurious Tale of (App. to Group A. of the
Tales), pp. 1 — 26, following 6-T. p. 128 ; relates how
Gamelyn, the youngest of three sons of a doughty knight,
Sir John of Boundys, after having become chief of the out
laws, avenges the wrongs done him by his eldest brother,,
who had deprived him of his patrimony and, until he grew
to man's estate, kept him in servile dependence ; and how
Gamelyn, in the end, is made by the king chief justice of
his free forest, and weds a wife good and fair.
Garden, a, described, 465/2029 — 41 ; 505, 6/902 — 17
Garland, name of a dog, in the Nun's Priest's Tale, 298/
4573
Gatesden, John, a physician of Oxford (14th cent.), 13/
434
Gaufred*. See Geoffrey de Vinsauf
Gaul, anc. name of France, 5 19/1411
Gawain (Gawayn), Sir, a knight of the Round Table, noted
for his courtesy, 481/95
Gawle. See Gaul
Gaza, one of the cities of the Philistines, 258/3237
Gazan, from Gazam, Led. accus. See Gaza
Gemini, sign of the Zodiac, 470/2223
Genelon, the Breton Knight who betrayed to their death r
the great Roland and Charlemagne's paladins, to the Moors
at Roncesvalles ; the name used as an epithet synonymous
with traitorous, "Genylon Olyuer," 268/3579 ; apostrophised
as type of treacherv, 294/4417 ; his punishment alluded to,
173/1384
" Gentil herte is fulfild of pitee," 150/66o ; " pitee renneth
soone in gentil herte," 61/1761 ; 468/1986 ; 492/479; "he
is gentil that dooth gentil dedis," 367/1 170
Gentleman, the true, defined, 366/1113 — 1&
Gentleness, true, in what consists, 366 — 8/1109 — 7^ >
general signs of (Seneca quoted), 626/464 — 9 ; a remedy
against Ire, 648/654
Genylon. See Genelon
Geoffrey de Vinsauf's De Poetria Nova, passage in, be
wailing the death of Richard I., alluded to, 297/4537 — 42
Gerland. See Garland
Gernade. See Granada
Gerounde. See Gironde
Gerueys (3, leruys ; 4, 6, Geruays ; 5, Gervase), name of
the smith ia the Miller's Tale, 108/3761, 3765, 3775, 3779
Gcs.'a Romanorum, one of the oldest mediaeval collections
32 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
of pious legends, etc. ; alluded to as "the Romayn geestes,"
472/2284; "the olde Romane geestes," 165/1 126. The
latter may have a general reference to Roman histories.
Ghent, a city of Belgium, noted for its cloth-making,
13/448
Gibraltar, the southernmost promontory of Spain, 160/
947 ; Strait of. See Marrok
Gifts of fortune or of nature, cause of death to many, 312/
295 — 300 ; " euerich hath of God a propre yifte," 887/103
Gilbertus Anglicus, a physician of the 13th cent., author
of Practica et Compenditim Medicince, 18/434
Gilbertyn. See Gilbertus Anglicus
Gile, Giles (Lat., ./Egidius), St., b. in Athens, 6th cent., d.
in France, 721 ; oath by, 666/1185
Gile, the Carpenter's maid, in the Miller's Tale, 102/3556
Gironde, a river in France, 514/1222
Gladness, preserves freshness in age, 208/2185
Gluttony, kindles the fire of lechery, 818/481, 482 ; full
of cursedness, 819/498 ; one of the Seven Deadly Sins, 658,
669/818—830; its remedy, 660/831—835
God, the supreme being, 16/533; 17/573; 26/886; 32/
1084; 33/1127; 37/1252, 1282; 88/1317; 44/1520; 46/
1599; 48/1665; 52/i8oo, 1810: 54/1863 ; 60/2104; 73/
2558, 2563; 79/2782; 87/3064; 88/3099, 3108; 89/3132,
90/3165, 3172; 94/3281 ; 95/3325; 97/3369; 98/3427; 99/
3454 ; 100/3491 ; 103/3588, 3592, 3595 ; 106/3709 ; 108/
3769, 3792; HO/3838, 3854; H2/39I8; 116/4026, 4036;
117/4073, 4086, 4089; 118/4118; 122/4247, 4252; 124/
4322; 125/4335,4339, 129/1 8 ; 134/i56, 160; 135/169;
186/195; 137/245; 140/334 J 1-13/439; 145/476,477, 5°4;
146/523; 149/602; 150/6395 153/7335 154/782; 166/813;
157/872, 873 ; 158/907 ; 159/9i4, 938, 942 ; 160/943 ; 162/
1019, 1023; 163/io6o; 166/1146, 1155; 171/1305, 1325;
172/1338, 1356, 1360; 173/1383, 1398; 174/i4i6; 175/
1449, 1454, 1464; 176/H76; 177/1535; 178/1545, 1570,
1573, 15755 179/1583, 1596, 1611, 1614; 180/1623; 181/
1628 ; 186/1767 ; 187/1797 ; 189/1873, 1878; 195/2O2I ; 197/
2098; 199/2109, 2112, 2119, 2126; 202/2172; 204/2205;
207/2248 ; 209/2270 ; 210/228o, 2291 ; 219/2427 ; 228/2586,
2599; 230/2636; 233/2685; 234/27oo; 240/2818,2819;
241/2847, 2851; 242/2853, 2870; 244/2909; 246/2954;
251/3063; 252/3073, 3075; 254/3122, 3133, 3140; 255/
3152; 266/3198; 257/3207, 3231, 3236; 261/3358; 262/
3367, 3369, 3372 ; 263/34oo, 3403, 3409, 3411, 3415. 3421 ;
269/3590; 272/3712, 37 1 5 ; ^4/3778, 3780; 276/3789,
3799, 3805, 3812; 281/3978; 283/4oi8; 286/4084, 4086,
4099, 4107, 4112 ; 287/4164 ; 289/4240, 4244 ; 290/4287 :
291/4310 ; 292/4349 5 298/4378 ; 294/4424 • 296/4438 ; 296/
4485; 299/4598, 4615; 300/4622, 4634; 310/242, 250;
311/278 ; 312/304 ; 319/523 ; 821/576 ; 323/633, 640, 647,
CHAUCER S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 33
od, continued)
654 ; 324/692, 695, 701 ; 325/715, 726 ; 826/748, 750, 757,
766 ; 327/782 ; 328/843 5 329/86o ; 334/5, *5 5 335/28, 39,
41, 50, 60; 386/69; 337/102, 103, 128; 338/147, 151, 164;
339/201 ; 340/207, 223 ; 846/385, 401 ; 346/423, 450 ; 347/
483, 491 ; 348/493, 501, 504, 525 ; 349/sso, 539 ; 350/586,
596; 351/6o5, 621, 634; 352/663; 353/693, 703; 356/
805; 357/823, 826, 833; 360/917; 364/io6o ; 865/1096;
366/H03, 1129; 367/1150, 1162; 868/1173, 1178; 369/
1242; 370/1264; 371/1270, 1276, 1292; 375/1435; 376/
1443; 377/1483; 379/1555, 1564, 1578; 880/1585, 1605;
881/1642 ; 888/1673; 884/1702, 1707 ; 886/1723 ; 886/1747,
1749, 1772; 887/1784, 1787, 1807, 888/1809, l8l°> l8345
389/1850, 1858, 1861 ; 390/1886, 1890, 1892, 1913; 391/
1937, 1941, 1948; 392/1972; 393/20o6, 2013, 2014; 394/
2053; 396/2103, 2106, 2112; 397/2153; 398/2169, 2177,
2187, 2193, 2197, 2202 ; 399/2205, 2207, 2210, 2232 ; 400/
2252, 2265; 403/7; 404/3o; 407/i33, 135, 136; 408/i55,
157,159; 409/206; 412/274; 415/395 ; 416/423 ; 417/455 5
418/491 ; 419/505 ; 426/718; 429/821, 830, 839; 430/841,
852; 486/1034; 437/io62, 1064, 1076; 488/1096; 439/
1151; 440/ii7i; 442/1232, 1240; 443/1262, 1267; 444/
1301, 1308; 445/I3II, 1325, 1327; 446/1352, 1353, 1373;
447/1401, 1404; 448/1449; 449/1457; 450/1489, 1493,
1510; 451/1544, 1549; 454/i66o, 1665; 455/1671, 1674,
1688; 456/1707; 457/1758, 1761, 1762; 458/1787, 1792;
459/i8i4; 460/I85I, 1874; 463/1974; 468/2165; 469/2175,
2195; 472/2290, 2291, 2293, 2299, 2300; 473/2341 ; 474/
2375, 2377, 2385; 475/2392, 2418: 476/2419, 2420; 491/
464; 493/534; 498/679; 499/7O7 ; 601/756; 604/865,871;
606/888,891; 507/967,976,983; 608/989; 514/1223; 517 /
1321,1329; 518/1374; 621/1470; 525/i6io; 628/38; 531/
125; 532/135; 533/162; 534/207; 535/239; 586/267: 537/
275, 278 ; 688/325 ; 539/330, 335, 345, 351, 356, 357 ; 540/
378; 542/417,418; 548/583,593; 549/641,651; 660/655;
661/715; 552/723, 740; 666/839; 560/996; 662/1046,
1064; 563/1073; 565/H76; 667/1243; 668/1274; 570/
1327, 1351 ; 571/1372, 1375 ; 574/i48i ; 576/15 5 581/i6o;
688/221; 684/248; 686/318; 590/44; 591/74; 593/75;
596/ii8, 119, 120, 121, 125; 597/136; 598/140, 148, 149;
599/153, 168 ; 600/176, 179; 601/184, 189, 191; 602/195,
198, 200, 201 ; 603/210, 218 ; 604/22O, 221, 225 ; 606/236 ;
606/244, 252 ; 607/26i, 264, 268 ; 609/282, 283, 290, 291 ;
610/294, 296, 301, 303; 611/304, 307; 612/323; 618/326,
327, 328 ; 614/338, 340 ; 616/356, 365 ; 617/366, 368, 369,
370, 375 ! 618/378, 383 ; 619/392 ; 628/434, 435, 442, 443 ;
625/458 ; 626/474, 479 ; 627/487 ; 628/499 5 629/soo, 501 ;
680/515, 516, 517, 522, 523 ; 631/523 ; 682/544, 545 ; 633/
553; 684/560; 686/580; 686/581,582,587,588, 589; 637/
595,596; 688/606; 689/619; 640/630; 642/643; 643/66 1 ;
645/682 ; 646/683, 687 ; 647/699 ; 648/712, 713 ; 649/7 18;
661/740; 668/760, 769; 654/77i, 773, 778; 666/781,783,
789 ; 656/793, 795 J 660/832, 837, 838, 839 ; 661/842, 844 ;
662/859, 860; 668/867; 664/879, 88 1, 882, 883; 666/893,
894; 666/894; 668/921 ; 669/923,928; 670/939; 672/957;
ELLES. INDEX. D
34 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
673/970 ; 674/983, 984, 985, 986 ; 676/988, 989 ; 676/1 005 ;
678/1026; 679/1030; 680/1039, IO43, 1045; 681/1050
1054 ; 682/1062, 1069 ; 688/1075 ; 684/1084
Gold; "if gold ruste, what shal iren doo?" 1 5/500 j
"euery thyng which J?at seineth as the gold nis nat gold,"
668/962, 963
Goldless for to be it is no game, 176/1480
Golias. See Goliath
Goliath, the Philistine giant, 159/934
Good name, the value of a., 240, 241/2827 — 2837; 250/
3033—3036
Good or harm not to be hastily requited, 207/2243
Goodness, comes all from God, not from birth, 408/157
Gothland, or Gottland (Gootlondf), the southernmost pro
vince of Sweden ; also an island in the Baltic, 12/408
Grace, Accidie or Sloth an enemy to, 646/684
Granada, a Moorish kingdom in Spain, 2/56
Great Sea, the part of the Mediterranean on which Palestine
borders (Num. xxxiv. 6, 7 ; Josh. i. 4), 2/59
Great things, done not by strength nor agility, but by good
counsel, by authority, etc. (Cicero), 214/2355
Greece (Grece), a country of south-eastern Europe, 29/
962 ; 277/3847 ; 520/1444 ; 144/464
Greece, Sea of. See Sea of Greece
Greek, native of Greece ; the Grekes hors Synon, i. e. the
horse of Sinon the Greek, 484/2og
Greeks, people of Greece, 88/2899; ^4/2951, 9 ; 85/2969 ;
354/744
Greenwich, a town in Kent, England, on the Thames, 112/
39°7
Gregorie, Gregory I., Pope, a saint and doctor of the
Church, b. ab. 540, d. 604, 233/2687; 594/g2 ; 603/214;
605/238; 621/414; 626/470; 647/692; 659/828; 670/934;
682/1069
Grekes. See Greek and Greeks
Grenewych. See Greenwich
Grete See (the). See Great Sea, 2/59
Grief, excessive, does not become a wise man, 202/2171 \
moderation should be observed in g., for the loss of a
friend, 202/2182
Grievances, 4 kinds of (wicked words, damage or loss of
property, harm of body, excessive labour), and their
remedies, 643, 4/662 — 9
Griselda (Grisild, Grisilde, Grisildis), the Patient, the sub
ject of Clerk's Tale, 410/232 ; 411/255 ; 412/274, 297 ; 413/
CHAUCER'S CA:NT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 35
335; 414/344,365; 416/428; 417/442; 418/466,470; 420/
537; 421/576; 427/752; 428/792; 488/948,953; 434/989;
435/1007, 1009, 1029; 486/1030, 51 ; 437/io62 ; 439/1143,
47 ; 440/n65, 77, 82 ; 441/ii87 ; her great patience com
pared, by the Merchant, with "the passing cruelty of his
wife," 442/1218—25
Grudging or murmuring, against God and man, 628, 9/499
— 501 ; from avarice (Judas Iscariot cited as example), 629/
502 ; among servants, 629/506 — 8 ; from ire or privy hate,
629/509
Guesclin, Bertrand du. See Du Guesclin
Guilty man, the, suspicious, 550/688, 689
Guy (Gy), Sir, of Warwick, Eomance of, alluded to, 197/
2089
Gysen (called Gyndes in Seneca and Herodotus), a river
destroyed by Cyrus because his horse was drowned therein,
395/2079—81
Haberdasher, among the Canterbury Pilgrims, 11/361
Habradate, the devotion to death, of his wife, alluded to,
519, 20/1414—18
Hailes, the abbey of, in Gloucestershire ; an oath " by the
blood of Crist that is in Hayles," 828/652
Haly, an Arabian astronomer, and a commentator on Galen
(llth cent.), 13/431
Hanged on the gallows, who is worthy to be, 352/655 —
658
Hannibal (Hanybal), the Carthaginian general, 139/2go
Harpies, fabulous monsters, with the faces of women and
the bodies of birds ; slain by Hercules, 259/3290
Hasdrubal, the Carthaginian general in command during
the siege of Carthage by the Romans ; the story of his
wife alluded to, 298/4553 — 8; 519/1399 — 1404
Haste ; "he hasteth wel that wisely kan abyde, and in
wikked haste is no profit," 207/2244
Hastiness, to be avoided, 212/2323 — 25
Hasty judgment followed by hasty repentance, 205/2220 ;
212/2325 ; " of an hastif thyng men may nat preche or
maken tariyng," 102/3545, 3546
Hayles. See Hailes
Hazardry (playing at games of chance), condemned, 321,
322/590—602 ; sin of, 656/793, 4
Heads and wits ; " as many heddes as manye wittes ther
ben," 484/203
Heaven, given to them that labour, and not to idle folk,
648/7x6
36 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Hebraic (Hebrayk), Hebrew, 180/1750
Hebrew people, their passage through the Red Sea, alluded
to, 145/489, 90
Hector, the Trojan hero, 81/2832 ; 186/198; 292/4331
Helen, wife of Menelaus, ravished by Paris, 131/yo ; 457/
1754
Helena, Saint, mother of Constantino the Great ; oath " by
the croys which J?at seint Eleyne fond," 331/951
Helie. See Belial
Hell, the land of darkness, of misease, why Job so calleth
it, 601/i8i— 188
He"loise (Helowys), mistress of Abailard, alluded to, 35 3/
677
Herald's proclamation of the rules of the tournament, 73/
2537—60
Hercules, the hero of antiquity, proverbial for his strength,
66/1943 ; 136/2OO ; 864/725 ; the story of, in Monk's Tale,
259, 60/3285—3332
Hereos. See Eros
Hermanno, son of queen Zenobia, 267/3535 (In Boccaccio
the name is Heremianus)
Hermengyld?, the wife of the Constable that receives
Constance in Northumberland (It is the Saxon Eormengild,
which was the name of one of the daughters of Earconbehrt,
King of Kent, Wright), 146/533, 35 ; 147/539, 62 ; 148/
595, 97 ! 149/6oo, 625, 627
Hermes ; Hermes Trismegistus (" thrice-great Hermes "),
the Egyptian Thoth, regarded as inventor of all science
and learning, 673/1434
Hermione (Hermyon), daughter of Menelaus and Helen,
131/66
Hero, the mistress of Leander, 131/69
Herod Antipas, the tetrarch, son of Herod the Great,
commanded to slay John the Baptist, 818/488 — 491
Herod, the part of, in religious plays : " He pleyeth Herodes
vp on a Scaffold hye," 97/3384
Herodes, pi. Herods ; the Jews addressed in Prioress's
Tale, "0 Herodes al newe ! " 186/1764
Hester. See Esther
Hethenesse, Heathen lands, Heathendom, 2/49
Hieronymus. See Jerome, St.
Hippocras, a spiced cordial, named from Hippocrates, 31 2/
306 ; 458/1 807
Hippocrates, the celebrated Greek physician (b. 460 B.C.),
13/431
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 37
Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, and wife of Theseus, in
the Knight's Tale, 26/868, 88 1 ; 29/971 ; 49/i685 5 74/2578
Hodge (Hogge of AVare), dim. of Roger, name of the Cook
with the Canterbury Pilgrims, 126/4336. See Roger
Holderness, a district on the coast of Yorkshire, 885/1710
Holo femes, a general of Nebuchadnezzar, slain by the
Jewish heroine Judith, during the siege of Betliulia, 159/
940 ; 210/2289 ; 446/1368 ; story of, in Monk's Tale, 273,
4/3741—64
Homer, the Greek poet, 520/1443
Hope, seven causes why the damned are without, 604/224
et seq.
Horeb, Mount, one of the sacred mountains, 390/1891
Horn childe, Eomance of, alluded to, 19 7/2 088
Horse of brass, in Squire's Tale, described, 487, 488/303 —
334
Hosanna, i.e., "Save, we pray," from Ps. cxviii. 25, 529/
69
Host of the Tabard Inn, 22/751 — 757 ; 181/1625 — 1641 ;
,190/1885—96; 199/2109—2115, 2119—2125; 253, 254/
3081—3113; 254, 55/3114—3154; 281/3970—3984; 282/
3985—95 ; 4000—5 ; 312, 13/287—319 ; 331/946—55 ; 332/
9-58, 9; 358/850—53; 371/1286—89, 1298—1300; 373/
1334, 375 886/1762, 63; 403/1—20; 442/1240—42; 476/
2419—40: 478/1—3; 498/695—698; 548/594—98; 615,
616 ; 549/628—39 ; 652, 653 ; 550/654—6 ; 663, 664 ; 551/
697, 698; 576/6—19; 577/57—6o; 578/61—75,94—96;
579/97—103; 589,590/15—29; 591/67—74
House ; "with-inne thyn hous ne be thou no leoun," 393/
1989
House of Fame, Chaucer's, alluded to, 684/io86
Houseled, one should be, at least once a year, 678/1026, 7
Huberd. See Hubert
Hubert, the name of the limitour among the Canterbury
pilgrims, 8/269
Hugelyn of Pyze. See TJgolino of Pisa
Hugh, Sir, used as a general name of a secular clergyman,
373/1356
Hugh of Lincoln, a boy murdered by the Jews, 189/1874
Hull, a seaport of England, 12/404
Humble folk, Christ's friends and contubernal with the
Lord, 663/760
Humility, or meekness, 1. of heart, 2. of mouth, 3. of
works, a remedy against Pride, 626, 7/476 — 83
Hunting, Theseus' love of, 48, 49/1673—82
INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Husband, a, must not be inquisitive, 90/3163 ; Housbondes
been alle go ode, and ban ben yoore. That knowen wyues,
188/272, 3 ; the happiness between husband and wife, 502,
503/803-5
Huwe. See Hugh
Hymen, the god of marriage and nuptial solemnities?
466/1730
Hypermnestra, one of the fifty daughters of Danaus, the
only one who preserved her husband's life, 131/75
Hypocrisy, one of the twigs of Pride, 619/391 ; defined,
619/394
Hypsipyle, daughter of Thoas and queen of Lemnos, in
the time of the Argonauts, 131/67
Jack, \ised as a general name, 878/1357
Jack of Dover, a young Dover pike or luce, 125/4347
Jacob, the patriarch, 210/2288 ; 885/56 ; 446/1362 ; 623/
443
Jacobus de Voragine (or Jacobus Januensis), Archb. of
Genoa, b. 1230, d. 1298 ; author of the famous Legenda
Aurea ; alluded to, 530/82
lakke. See Jack, 878/1357
lakke of Douere. See Jack of Dover, 125/4347
lame, Seint. See James, St.
James, St., the son of Alphaeus, called the Less, one of
the twelve apostles ; his Epistle quoted, 212/2309 ; 234/
2707; 242/2866; 251/3059; 439/1 154; 615/348
James, St., the son of Zebedee, called the Greater, one of
the twelve apostles ; shrine of, at Compostella, in Galicia,
14/466; oaths by, 122/4264; 178/1545; 342/31 2 ; 376/
1443 ; Gam. 9/277 ; 19/665 ; 22/764 ; 23/797
lane, a coin of Genoa, of small value, 486/999 ; 191/1925
lanekyn. See Jankin
Jangling, one of the twigs of pride, defined, 620/406 ;
(babbling), the sin of (Eccles. v. 2, and a philosopher
quoted), 642/649, 50 ; " litel janglyng causeth muchel rest,"
587/350
lanicula (Janicle), the father of Griselda, in Clerk's Tale,
409/208; 412/304; 416/404; 423/632
Jankin, the Clerk, the Wife of Bath's fifth husband, 349/
548; 350/595; 351/628 ; 354/7i3
Jankin, dim. of John. i.e. Johnny ; the Host derisively
addresses the Parson, " 0 lankyn be ye there," 167/1 172
Jankin, an apprentice alluded to by Wife of Bath, 342/
303 ; 344/383
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 39
Jankin, the lord's squire in Summoner's Tale, 401/2288,
2293
laukyn. See Jankin
January (lanuarie), the old husband to the young wife
May, in the Merchant's Tale, 447/1393; 449/1478; 452
1566, 1579, 1586; 455/1695; 456/1724; 457/1750; 458/
1788, 1801, 1805; 459/i82i; 460/1859; 461/1886, 1895,
1920; 462/1946, 56; 464/2OI3, 23; 460/2042,2054,2056;
466/2065, 2069; 467/2102, 2118, 2134; 468/2156; 469/
2186; 470/2218; 473/2230; 474/2355; 475/2412,2417
-Janus, god of the sun and the year, to whom January was
sacred, 515/1252
Japing, joking, the sin of; japers are the devil's apes;
642/651,2
Jason, chief of the Argonauts, alluded to as a false lover,
131/74 ; 494/549
lay tout perdu mon temps et mon labour, 606/248.
(Quoted also in Chaucer's Fortune.)
Idle words, the sin of, 642/647, 8
Idleness, the Porter of Venus' dwelling, 66/1940; the
nurse of vices, 527/1 — 21 ; the gate of all harms ; an idle
man like to a place without walls — the devils may enter on
every side, 648/714 — 17
Idolater and an avaricious man, difference between an
(Exod. xx. 3, 4, quoted), 652/749 — 51
Jealous people are dangerous, 114/3961
Jephthah (lepte), the Judge of Israel who sacrificed his
daughter (Judges xi. 29—40), 309/24O
Jeremiah (leremie, leremye), the Hebrew prophet, 32 3/
635 ; 593/76 ; 601/189 ; '637/592
Jerome, Saint, quoted on good works, 238/2785 ; his
Contra Jovinianum alluded to, 808/674 ; stories of true
women, drawn from his work Contra Jovinianum, lib. 1,
c. 39, 518—21/1368—1456; quoted in Parson's Tale, 599/
159; 600/174; 614/345 ; 643/657 ; 667/904; 670/933; 680/
1047
Jerusalem, the holy city, 14/463 ; 261/3337 ; 262/3386;
275/3786; 348/495; 590/51 ; 593/8o ; 686/589
Jesu, Jesus. See Christ
Jesus, the son of Sirach, author of the Apocryphal Book,
Ecdesiasticus, ab. 200 years B.C., 202/2 185; 206/22355
207/2249; 213/2331 ; 471/2250
Jew, a Hebrew, 185/1760; 186/1791; 314/35i ; 315/
364; pi. Jews (Jewes), 180/1749, 1755; 186/1763, 1789;
187/i8io, 1819; 189/1875; 186/2054; 275/3782; 818/475;
637/591 ; 688/599 ; 644/663 ; 665/889
Jewry (Jewerye), Jews' quarter in a city, 188/1679 ; 185/
1741 ; 186/1782
40 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Ignorance, the mother of all harm, 648/7 10
Ignotum per ignotius, 578/1457
Ihesu and Ihesus. See Christ
Ihesu Crist. See Christ
Ihesus films Syrak. See Jesus, son of Sirach
Ihesus Nazarenus rex Iiideorum, 609/284
Ilion (Ilium), ancient city of Troy, 189/289 (Skeat substi
tutes Theseus in this place), 298/4546
Imagination, men may die of, 108/3612
Impatience, one of the twigs of Pride, 619/391 ; defined,
620/397
Ind (Inde), India, 62/2156; 825/722; 357/824; 441/
1199; 482/iio
In manus tuas (Ps. xxx. 6 ; Luke xxiii. 46), 128/4287
Innocence, Accidie or Sloth an enemy to, 645/682; be
trayal of, 306/91, 92
Innocent (Pope Innocent III?), quoted on poverty, 237/
2758—2760
In nomine Ihesu, &c. 687/598
In Principio, the first words of the Gospel of John (see
Furnivall's Temp. Pref. to 6-T. ed. of Chaucer's C. T., p.
93), 8/254 ; "ffor al so siker as Inprincipio" i.e., for as
sure as gospel, 292/4353
Insolence, one of the twigs of Pride, 619/391 ; defined,
620/399
Insurrection (armed compleint), portrayed un the wall of
the temple of Mars, 68/2012
Joab, commander of the Hebrew army under King David,
466/1719
Joacim. See Eliachim
Job, the hero of the Book of Job, 208/2189; 846/436 j
377/1491 ; 432/932; 597/134; 600/176, 178; 601/i8i ; 603/
211, 217 ; 604/223
Joce (or Jose or Josse), St., Sanctus Judocus, a saint of
Ponthieu (Vocab Hagiol. pref'd to Menage, Etymol. Fr.),
oath by, 847/483
John, the carpenter, in the Miller's Tale, 97/3369; 100/
3501; 101/3513; 102/3577; 104/3639; 105/3662
John, the clerk or scholar of Soler hall, Cambridge, in the
Reeve's Tale, 115/4013 et seq.
John, Daun, the friar in Shipman's Tale, 169/1233, 1248;
170/1258,1279,1288; 172/1348; 173/1377; 174/i4ii; 175/
1445 : 176/1472, 1484, 1486, 1488, 1498, 1502, 1504; 177/
1509. 1512, 1527, T532, 1539; 179/1592
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 41
John, Daun, name by which the Host addresses the Monk,
254/3119
John, Sir, name by which the Host addresses the Nun's
Priest, 282/4000 ; " This sweete preest. this goodh' man sir
lohn," 282/4010
John, St., the Evangelist, 129/i8; 162/ioig ; 186/1772 ;
200/2141; 252/3075—3077; 326/752; 888/164; 881/1647;
387/i8oo; 400/2252 ; 495/596; 603/2i6; 615/349; 634/
565 ; 661/841 ; 670/933
John, the friar in Summoner's Tale, 898/2171
John, the Baptist, 819/491
Jonah (Jonas), the Hebrew prophet, 145/486
Joseph, son of Jacob and Rachel, viceroy of Egypt, 2 9 1/
4320 ; 623/443 ; 664/88o
Joseph, the husband of Mary, 609/286
loue. See Jove
louinian. See Contra Jovinianum
louis. See Jupiter
Jove, the supreme Roman deity, 64/2222. See Jupiter
Jovinian, fabulous emperor of Rome, in Gesta Romanorum,
cap. lix., celebrated for his pride and luxury? 891/1929
lovinyan. See Jovinian
Joy, preserves freshness in age, 208/2185 •> ^°J& a^er wo
and wo after gladnesse, 81/2841 ; worldly joy cannot last,
166/1133 — 38; 465/2O55 ; the latter ende of ioye is wo,
293/4395
Irascimini et nolite peccare (Ps. iv. 5), 682/540
Ire, portrayed on the wall of the temple of Mars, 57/1997 j
"a thing that hye god defended," 888/1834; one of the
greatest of the deadly sins, 898/2005 ; " executour of
pryde," 393/2OIO ; causes often to do or say amiss, 502/
783 ; treated of, as one of the Seven deadly sins, 631 — 43/
533 — 653 ; its remedy, 643 — 45/654 — 76
Irreverence, one of the twigs of Pride, 619/391 ; defined,
620/403
Isaac, the patriarch, 210/2288 ; 446/1365
Isaiah, the Hebrew prophet, 602/198; 603/2io ; 609/28i
Isidore of Seville, or, Isidorus Hispalensis, St., bp. of
Seville, b. ab. 570, d. 636; 594/89; 688/551
Isiphilee. See Hypsipyle
Isope, See JEsop
Israel, kingdom of, 258/3250 ; 261/3342
Italy (Itayle), a country of Europe, 143/441 ; 270/3650 ;
42 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
404/33 5 405/57 ; 411/266 : 439/1132 ; 440/1 178 ; 450/isu ;
466/1714
lubaltare. See Gibraltar
ludas. See Judas Iscariot
Judas Iscariot, the betrayer, 294/4417 ; 878/1350; 561/
1003; 629/502; 639/6:6; 647/696; 677/IOI5 ; name used
for a betrayer, 561/IOO/
Judas Maccabseus, the Jewish general, whose exploits are
related in the apocryphal books of the Maccabees, 241/
2848
Judge, a wise, characterized, 205/2221
Judgment, hasty, followed by hasty repentance, 205/222O ;
212/2325
Judgment Day, dread of, should move to Contrition, 599/
158—165
ludicum, gen. pi., i.e. Liber ludicum, the Book of Judges,
257/3236
Judith, the heroine of the apocryphal book so named, the
slayer of Holofernes, 159/939 ; 210/2289 ; 274/3761 ; 446/
1366
luerie (lues). See Jewry, Jews
Julian, St., the patron of hospitality, 10/340
lulius. See Caesar, Caius Julius
July, the seventh month, 467/2133
Juno, the sister and wife of Jupiter, 89/1329 ; 45/1543,
1555, 1559
Jupiter, the supreme deity of the Romans, 70/2442 ; 79/
2786 ; 80/2792 5 86/3035 ; 87/3o69 ; 279/3934 ; 280/3942 ;
540/364; 541/413; the planet, 470/2224; a name for tin,
555/828
luppiter. See Jupiter
lustinus, one of the friends of January, in the Merchant's
Tale, 449/1477 ; 450/1519; 454/1655"; 455/i689
lustyn. See Justinus
Juvenal, the Roman satirist, quoted on poverty (Sat. x.
22), 868/1192— 4
luyl. See July
Ive, St., an exemplary priest of Lantriguier, in Bretagne,
174/147 5 391/1943
Kaukasous. See Caucasus
Kayrrud (2. Kairrud, 3. kayrrud, 4. 5. kynrede, 6. kyn-
red)? 503/8o8
Kenelm, Saint, king of Meroia, of the Saxon Heptarchy,
A.D. 819 ; his dream related, 291/4300
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALKS : ELLES. MS. 43
Kent, St. Thomas of, 95/3291
Kenulph, king of Mercia, of the Saxon Heptarchy, 29 If
Kind: "alle thyng repeirynge to his kinde gladeth hym
self," 495, 496/6o8, 609
Kings, Book of, 666/897
Knight, description of the, among the Canterbury Pilgrims,
2, 3/43—78 ; his Tale of Pulamon and Arcite, 26—88/859
—3108 ; stops the Monk's tragic stories, as "a greet disese,"
281/3957 — 69 ; reconciles the Pardoner and the Host, 332/
960 — 967
Koran. See Alcoran
Laban, the uncle and father-in-law of the patriarch Jacob,
623/443
Lacedsemon, or Sparta, an ancient city of Peloponnesus,
capital of Laconia, 322/6o5 ; 618/1380
Lacedomya. See Laodamia
Lacedornye, Lacidomye. See Lacedaemon
Ladomya. See Laodainia
Ladon, the dragon which guarded the golden apples of the
Hesperides, 259/3291
Lamech (Gen. iv. 19), alluded to as the first bigamist, 335/
54 ; 494/550
Lameth. See Lamech
Lamwel. See Lemuel
Lancelot du Lac, the most famous knight of Arthur's
Bound Table, 294/4402 ; 486/287
Laodamia, wife of Protesilaus, 131/71 ; 520/1445
Latin, the language of the Romans, 146/519 ; 184/1713 ;
292/4355; 314/344; 391/i934 ; 513/1 174
Latin words, phrases, and sentences : Actuum, g. pi., 63V/
597; 0 Alma Redemptoris mater. 184/i7o8 ; 185/1744;
187/i8o2 ; 188/1831, 1845 ; Amor vincit omnia, 6/162 ;
Angelas ad virginem, 92/3216 ; Cor meum eructauit, 391/
1934; De civitate Dei, 652/754; Deus hie, 886/1770; Ihesus
Nazarenus rex ludeorum, 609/284 ! i° manus tuas, 123/
4287 ; In nomine Ihesu, &c., 687/598; In Principio, 8/254;
292/4353 > Irascimini & nolite peccare, 682/540; ludicum,
g. pi., 257/3236; Mulier est hominis confusio, 292/4354;
Non est aliud nomen sub celo, &c., 687/597 ; Pater noster,
104/3638 ; 629/508 j 680/1039 ; Placebo, 395/2O75 5 639/
617; qui cum patre, 885/1734; 686/1092; Questio quid
juris, 19/646 ; Radix malorum est cupiditas, 814/334; 316/
426 ; Significant, 19/662; Te Deum, 389/1 866
Latumyus (Camb. MS. Latymyus), a person mentioned by
the Wife of Bath, 355/757
44 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Latyn. See Latin
Launcelot (Launcelet) de lake. See Lancelot
Law ; " swich lawe as a man yeueth another wight he
sholde hym seluen vsen it by right," 130/43, 44
Lazarus, the brother of Mary and Martha, in the Gospel
(Johnxi.), 202/2177
Lazarus, the beggar of the Parable (Luke xvi. 20); "Lazar
and diues lyueden diuersly," 889/1877
Leander, the lover of Hero, 181/69
Lechery, one of the Seven Deadly Sins, 660 — 668/836—
914; its remedy, 668 — 672/915—957
Legende of Goode Women, Chaucer's, alluded to by the
Man of Law, as " the seintes legende of Cupide," 130/6i ;
alluded to as ' The book of the .xxv. Ladies,' 684/io86
Lemuel, King (Prov. xxxi. 4, 5), 821/584, 585
Leo, sign of the Zodiac, 486/265; 510/1058. See Lion
Leon. See Leo
Lepe, a town in Spain; its wine alluded to, 821/563, 570
Lernaean Hydra, slain by Hercules, 259/3295
Lettow. S°,e Lithuania
Liber aureolus Theophrasti, de Kuptiis, quoted by Jerome,
in his Contra Jovinianum ; alluded to, 862/671
Liberality, reasonable, a remedy against avarice, 658/8 n,
12 ; foolish and vain ]., to be eschewed, 668/813 — 17
Libra, a sign of the Zodiac, 589/1 1
Lieys (Lyeys), in Armenia, taken from the Turks by
Pierre de Lusignan, about 1367, 2/58
Life of all things, limited, 85, 86/2994 — 3016 ; examples
drawn from the oak, the hard stone, the broad river, great
towers, man, 86/3017 — 3034
Lignano, Giovanni di, Prof, of Canon Law at Bologna in
1363 ; died at Bologna in 1383, 404/34
Ligurge. See Lygurge
Limitour, a great honour to be a, 871/1293 — 97
Limitour, story of a, in Summoner's Tale, 385 — 40 1/
1709—2294
Lincoln, a cathedral city of England, 189/1874. &ee Hugh
of Lincoln
Lion, sign of the Zodiac, 486/265
Lithuania, an anc. territory of Europe, west of Eussia, and
north of Poland, 2/54
Livelihood, Accidie or Sloth an enemy to one's, 646/685
Livius Patavinus, Titus, the Roman historian, 303/1
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 45
Lollard, a term of reproach, applied to a follower of Wyclif,
167/1173, 1177
Lollere. See Lollard
Lombards, people of Lombardy, 178/1557
Lombardy, a territory of northern Italy, 269/3590; 404/
46 ; 405/72 ; 488/945 ; 448/1245 5 484/193
London, capital city of England, 11/382 ; 15/509; 104/
3632; 125/4325; 349/550; 561/1012; 576/u
London apprentice, described, 127, 8/4365 — 4422
Londoun. See London
Looth". See Lot
Lord, Theseus' opinion of a true, 51/1774 — 81 ; lords and
churls have a common origin and destiny, 668/76 1, 2 ;
lords should have the love rather than the dread of their
churls, 653/763 ; lords who devour the possessions of the
poor, are like wolves, 654/775
Lordships, oppressive, come of covetousness, 652/752 ;
St. Augustine, De Civitate, lib. ix, and Gen. ix. 25—27,
referred to, 652/754
Lord's Prayer. See Pater Koster
Loss of property, but not loss of time, recoverable, 129/
27, 28
Lot, his drunkenness alluded to (Gen. xix. 33), 318/
485-7
Love ; " who shal yeue a louere any lawe : Loue is a
fretter lawe," 84/1164, 1165 ; "a man moot nedes loue,"
4/1169; love is free, 47/i6o6 ; 501/767; loue ne lordshipe
wol noght hir thankes haue no felaweshipe, 47/1625, 1626;
personified, 45/1564 ; the power of, 52/1785 — 1790; sym
bolic representations on the wall of the temple of Venus,
of the power of, 55, 56/1918 — 1946 ; all things bound with
the chain of, 85/2987 — 2993 ; " alwey the nye slye maketh
the ferre leeue to be looth," 97/3392, 3393 ; " is noght oold
as whan Jmt it is newe," 430/857 ; will not be constrained,
601/764 — 766 ; the most submissive in, have the most
advantage, 502/771, 772; love of God and neighbor, a
remedy against envy, 680/515, 516 ; how a man should do
3 deeds of love against 3 deeds of hate (Matt. v. 44,
quoted), 681/524 — 526 ; the medicine that casts out the
venom of envy from man's heart, 681/531
Love days, allusion to, 8/258
Lover's malady, 40/1355 — 1379
Loy, St. " Hire grettest ooth was but by seint Loy," 4/
1 20. The saint meant is uncertain. See Mr. Furnivall's
letter to the London Academy, May 22, 1880, p. 385, and
replies, May 29, pp. 403, 404
Loy, St. (St. Eloi, bp. of Noyon [Lat. Eligius], patron of
goldsmiths and farriers) ; '' I pray to god saue thee, and
46 INDEX OP PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
seint loy," 879/1564. " Loye ; elegius, nomen proprium."
Gathol. Angl. ed. Herrtage.
Luc. See Luke, St.
Lucan (M. Annseus Lucanus), the Roman poet, author of
the Pharsalia, 142/4OI ; 279/3909
Lucia. See Lucilia
Lucifer, the fallen angel, 655/788 ; the story of, in the
Monk's Tale, 266/3189—3196
Lucilia, a woman who killed her husband with a love
potion, mentioned in the Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum de
non ducenda uxore, 866/747, 752
Lucina, an appellation of Diana, as the goddess presiding
over child-birth ; portrayed on the wall of Dian's temple,
60/2083 — 2086 ; the moon, 509/1 045
Lucrece, or Lucretia, the wife of Collatine, ravished by
Sextus Tarquinius, 130/63 ', 619/1405
Lucresse. See Lucrece
Lucye. See Lucilia
Luke, St., the Evangelist, 200/2141 ; 647/7oo, 702
Lumbardes, Lumbardye. See Lombards, Lombardy
Luna, a woman who poisoned her husband, mentioned in
the Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum de non ducenda uxore,
355/747, 750
Luna, the moon, a name for silver, 555/826 ; 578/1440
Lust, its influence and effects, 159/925 — 31
Lybeux (Lybeaus Disconus), Sir, Romance of, 197/2090.
See Percv Folio MS. ii. 404, and Eitson's Metr. Romances,
Vol. ii.
Lycurgus, King of Thrace, described, in the train of Pala-
mon, 61, 62/2128—2154; 76/2644
Lydia (Lyde), an ancient kingdom in Asia Minor, 279/
3917 ; 291/4328
Lyeys. See Lieys
Lygurge, King of Thrace. See Lycurgus
Lying, various kinds of, enumerated, 638, 9/6o8 — n ;
comes of avarice, 666/795
Lyma. See Luna
Lynyan. See Lignano
Mabely, name of the old woman in Friar's Tale, 881/1626
Maccabaeus. See Judas Maccabaeus
Maccabees, the apocryphal books so called, 274/3769 ; 277/
3845
Macedonia, an ancient kingdom of south-eastern Europe,
277/3846; 520/1435
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 47
Machabee. See Maccabees
Macidonye, Macidoyne. See Macedonia
Macrobius Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius, the Gram
marian, end of 4th cent., author of a Comm. on Cicero's
Somnium Scipionis, 291/4313
Madness (woodnesse), portrayed on the Avail of the temple
of Mars, 68/201 1
Madrian. See Mathurin, St.
Magdalene, or Mary Magdalene, 629/502, 504 ; 671/947
Magdalene, the " woman who was a sinner " (Luke vii.
37), 675/996
Magdaleyne. See Magdalene
Magic, feats of, enumerated, 512/1143 — IT5I
Magic mirror, 482/132 — 141
Magic scenes, SlS/nSg — 1201
Magnanimity, or greatness of spirit, a remedy against
Accidie or Sloth, 660/731 — 33
Magnificence, or the doing of great works of goodness, a
remedy against Accidie or Sloth, 666/736
Mahomet, the Arabian prophet, 186/224; 140/333, 33^^
340
Mahoun. See Mahomet
Makomete. See Mahomet
Malice, two kinds of, 1. hardness of heart, 2. opposition to-
known truth, 627/486, 7
Malkin (Malkyn), dim. of Mary, Molly, used generically
for any young woman, 130/3O ; name of a maid in Nun's
Priest's Tale, 298/4574
Malle, name of the widow's sheep, in K"un's Priest's Tale,
283/4021
Malmsey. See Malvesie
Malvesie (Maluesye, Malvoisie), a wine, named from Mai
vasia, or Napoli di Malvasia, in the Morea, 170/1 260
Malyne, i.e. Malkin, dim. of Mary, Molly, 121/4236
Manciple, description of the, among the Canterbury
Pilgrims, 17/567—586
Manciple's Head-Link ; the Host calls on the Cook for a
tale, but in his drunken condition he prefers to sleep, and
the Manciple offers to tell the next tale, and is accepted by
the Host, 576— 579/1— 104
Manciple's Tale, of Phoebus and his white crow that tells
him of his wife's infidelity during his absence from home,
and is turned black therefor (Ovid's Met. Bk. ii. 534 — 550),
580—687/105—362
48 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Mane terJiel phares (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upliarsin of A.
V. of Dan. v. 25), 262/3396
Man of Law, 130/33
Man of Law's Head-Link ; the Host reminds the company
that the fourth part of the day is gone, and entreats them
not to lose time ; calls for a tale, on the Man of Law who,
after enumerating the several stories that had been told by
Chaucer and alluding to " cursed stories," " unkind abomin
ations '' which Chaucer, and which he himself, would not
tell, begins his story of the pious Constance, 129 — 131/1 —
98
Man of Law's Prologue ; he addresses Poverty, and cites
its ills, 132, 133/99—133
Man of Law's Tale, of the pious Constance, 134 — 166/134
— 1162
Manslaughter, an offspring of ire or anger, 634/564 ; kinds
of spiritual m. : 1. by hate (1 John iii. 15, quoted) : 2. by
backbiting : 3. in giving wicked counsel by fraud (Prov.
iii. 27, 28, quoted), 684/562 — 569 ; bodily m., slaying with
the tongue, giving order or counsel to slay a man, 634/570 :
m. in deed, 1. by law, as when a judge condemns a man to
death: 2. in self-defence: 3. by accident: 4. when a woman
by negligence overlies her child : 5. by preventing concep
tion, inducing abortion: 6. when a woman kills her child
after birth, for shame: 7. when a man by lecnery or blows
destroys a foetus, 635/5/1 — 579
March, the month, 1/2 ; 349/546; 387/1782; 480/47;
the month in which the world began, 293/43/8
Marcian. See Capella, Martianus Mineus Felix
Mardoche. See Mordecai
Marie, Egypcien. See Mary, St., the Egyptian
Marie, Seinte, the Virgin. See Mary, the Virgin
Mark, St., the Evangelist, 200/2141 ; 338/145
Market ; " greet prees at market maketh deere ware, and to
greet cheepe is holde at litel prys," 348/522, 523
Marriage, Wife of Bath's views of, 334—357/1—828 ; the
wo that is in, 334/3 ; never forbidden by God, 335/6o ; the
tribulation in, 339/1/3 — 183 ; a great sacrament, 445/1319;
a horrible thing to break the sacrament of (Matt. xix. 5,
quoted), 661/842 ; what this sacrament betokens (Exod.
xx. 17, St. Augustine, Matt. v. 28, quoted), 661/843 ; a
great sacrament established by God ; true effect of ; figured
between Christ and Holy Church, 668/918—922 ; how a
man should bear him towards his wife (Ephes. v. 25,
quoted), 669/925 — 929 ; how a wife should be subject to
her husband (1 Pet. iii. 1 — 7, St. Jerome and St. Gregory,
quoted), 669, 670/930—938. See Wedlock
Marrok, the Strayte of. See Morocco
Mars, the god of war, 29/975 ; 45/1559 > 49/i682, 1708 ,
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 49
50/1747; 55/1907; 59/2050; 62/2159; 64/2248; 68/2369,
2372 ; 70/2431, 2434, 2441 ; 71/2473, 2480; 74/2581 ; 76/
2669; temple of, described, 57/1981 — 1994; representa
tions on the walls, 57 — 59/1967—2040; statue of, described,
59/2041 — 2050 : Arcite's invocation of, 68, 69/2373 — 2420;
the planet, 59/2035 ; 68/2367; 139/301,305; 351/612,613,
619 ; 480/I5O ; a name for iron, 555/827
Martes, gen. s. See Mars
Martin (Martyn), St., a Hungarian by birth, served in the
army under Constantius and Julian ; an opponent of the
Arians ; d. at Tours; oaths by, 172/1338; Gam. 2/53;
7/225 ; 172/1338
Mary, the Virgin, 150/641; 159/920; 179/1592; 183/
1698; 189/i88o ; 193/1974; 812/308 ; 324/685; 380/i6o4;
445/1337; 461/1899; 475/24i8; 562/io62; prayer of Con
stance to, 156, 157/841 — 54; the Prioress's invocation to,
182, 183/1657—1677 ; the second nun's, 528—530/29—84
Mary, St., the Egyptian ; allusion to her being miraculously
fed in a cave, 145/5OO
Mathurin, St., an oath " by that precious corpus Madrian,"
253/3082
Matthew (Mathew), St., the Evangelist, 200/2141 ; 323/
634; 686/588 ; 661/842, 845 ; 679/1036
Maudelayne, the name of the Shipman's barge, 12/410
Mauny, Sir Oliver, of Armorica (Bretagne), an accomplice
in the murder of Peter the Cruel, of Spain ; Chaucer con
ceals the name under the synonym of wicked nest, O.Fr.
man ni (Skeat), 268/3576
Maur (Maure), St., a disciple of St. Benedict, and from
whom a Congregation of Benedictines in France was
named, 6/173
Maurice, gen. Maurices. See Mauricius
Mauricius, the son of Constance and king ^lla, in the
Man of Law's Tale, 152/723; 168/1063; 164/io86 ; 165/
1121, 1127
Mawmet (from Mahomet), an idol, 652/749 ; 662/86o
Mawrnettrie (from Mahomet), idolatry, 652/750
Maxiine. See Maximus
Maxims. See Proverbs
Maximus, an officer of the Roman Prefect Almachius,
540/368, 372, 377; 541/4oo
May, the month, 8/92 ; 81/1034, 1037, 1042 ; 48/1462 ;
44/1500; 48/1675; 71/2484; 129/6; 349/546; 505/906,
907; 506/928; 570/1343; May wole haue / no slogardrie
a nyght, 81/1042 ; the influence of the season of, 81/1043
— 45 ; description of a May morning, 43/1491 — 96 ;
invoked, 44/1510 — 12
May, the wife of January, in the Merchant's Tale, 455/
50 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
1693; 457/1742, 1774; 458/1782; 459/1822; 460/1851,
1859, 1871, 1882; 461/1886, 1888, 1895, 1914; 462/1932,
1955; 463/1977; 464/1995, 2002; 466/2054; 466/2092,
2100; 467/2ii6; 468/2137. 2157; 469/2185; 470/2218;
473/2321, 2328
Mayus, the wife of January in the Merchant's Tale. See
May
Mecene. See Messene
Medea, the sorceress, wife of Jason, 66/1944 ; 131/72
Medes, the people of Medea, a province of the Assyrian
Empire, 268/3425
Megacosinus of Bernardus Sylvestris (12th cent.), passage
imitated from, 135,136/190 — 203
Melan. See Milan
Meleager, the Calydonian hunter, portrayed on the wall of
Dian's temple, 60/2071
Meleagree. See Meleager
Melesie. See Miletus
Melibee. See Melibeus
Melibee, "this is to seyn, a man that drynketh hony,"
•22^/2600
Melibe-Monk Link ; the Host contrasts his shrewish and
big-armed wife with Melibeus' patient wife, Prudence,
calls for a tale on the Monk, who proposes to tell a series
of Tragedies, 253— 255/3079— 3180
Melibeus, Chaucer's Tale of : Melibeus, a young man
mighty and rich, whose wife Prudence and daughter
Sophie were beaten and wounded, in his absence, by three
of his old enemies, calls together a great congregation of
folk, of various kinds, to take counsel what is best to be
done in the case. The greater number advise vengeance,
but Dame Prudence, by means of an elaborate argument,
backed by quotations from Holy Writ and ancient authors,
at last prevails against all evil advisers, and persuades her
husband to become reconciled to his enemies, and to forgive
as he hopes to be forgiven, 201 — 252/2157 — 3078
Menace, the sin of, 642/646
Merchandise, bodily and spiritual, 654/777; bodily m.,
when lawful, and when cursed and damnable, 654/778 —
780
Merchant, description of the, among the Canterbury
Pilgrims, 8, 9/270 — 284; merchant of Shiprnan's Tale,
168 — 180/1 191 — 1624; of deceit between merchant and
merchant, 654/778 — 780
Merchant's End-Link ; the Host prays God to keep him
from such a wife as January's wife May ; declares his own
wife to be " as true as any steel," but " a labbyng shrewe,"
with " an heepe of vices mo ; " 476/2419 — 2440
CHAUCER S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 51
Merchant's Prologue : the merchant complains of his wife
and brings her " passyng crueltee " into contrast with
Griselda's " grete pacience," 442/1213 — 1244
Merchant's Tale of January and May, illustrating that
" men sholde wedden after hire estaat ffor youthe and elde
is often at debaat," 443 — 476/1245 — 2418
Merchants, rich, addressed by the Man of Law, 132, 133/
122 — 130
Merchants of Syria described, 134/134 — 140
Mercia, one of the Kingdoms of the Saxon Heptarchy,
291/4302
Mercury (Mercurius), the messenger of the gods, descrip
tion of, 40, 41/1385 — 90
Meicury, the planet, 353/697, 699, 703, 705; 497/672;
a name for quicksilver, 666/827 ; 673/1438
Mtrcy, recommended to Melibeus by his wife, 251/3050 —
58 ; a remedy against avarice, 667/804 — Io
Mertenrike' (for Mercenrike), 291/4302. See Mercia
Messene(MSS. 1, 2, Mecene; 3, Messene; 4,5,mesue; 6,
Mesne), now Mavromati, the later capital of Messenia, a
country in Peloponnesus, 618/1379
Metamorphoseos, gen. s. Ovid's Metamorphoses^ 131/93
Metaphors: 16/563; 24/823 ; 26/886,87; 27/925; 29/
982; 71/2469; 87/3061; 88/3115; • 108/3774, 75; HO/
3852; 111/3865, 3868, 3882.. 3883-85; 112/3887; 112/
3889 — 3895; 112/3911; 117/4096; 119/4155; 132/124;
135/165—8; 140/323; 141/358, 364; 143/438; 152/701,
2; 166/833; 164/1090; 181/1626; 187/1799, 1800; 188/
1846; 247/2966; 254/3123; 276/3832; 277/3851; 294/
4430; 300/4633; 305/75; 320/558, 9; 326/729—31; 337/
107, 113; 339/170, 171, 176, 177; 347/477,478,484, 487,
489, 492; 350/572, 573; 351/602—604; 396/2091; 403/
22; 432/919; 440/1166—1169; 450/r5i6; 451/1553;
468/1783, 1798; 493/505; 506/942; 528/37; 662/730;
662/1069; 563/io8o; 669/1301, 1313; 577/42; 678/72:
684/252 ; 590/26, 35, 36
Metellius. See Metellus
Metellus, Egnatius, killed his wife for wine-drinking
(Valerius Maximus, lib. vi. cap. 3), 347/46o — 462
Methaniorphosios. See Metamorphoseos
Micah, the Hebrew prophet, 602/2 01
Michias. See Micah
Midas, the Phrygian king ; the story of his ears (Ovid's
Met. lib. xi. fab. 4, 5), 361, 862/951—982
Middelburgh. See Middleburgh
Midclleburgh, a port of the island of "VValcheren in the
Netherlands, 8/277
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52 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Might does not make right, 218/2408 ; when joined to
cruelty, 271/3683, 3684
Milan, city and dukedom in Italy, 269/3589
Miletus, the 7 maidens of, that slew themselves to save
their virginity, alluded to, 619/1409 — 1411
Miller, description of a, in the Reeve's Tale, 118/3925
et fteq
Miller, description of the, among the Canterbury Pilgrims,
16. 17/545—566
Miller, the stealing propensity of the, in Reeve's Tale,
115/3995—3998
Miller's daughter, in the Reeve's Tale, description of, 114/
3973—3976
Miller's Prologue : The Knight's Tale ended, the Host
calls on the Monk for the second tale ; the drunken Miller
insists on telling next '' a legende and a lyf bothe of a
carpenter and his wif, how that a clerk hath set the
wrightes cappe." The Reeve tells him to hold his tongue
and let be his "lewed dronken harlotrye ;" but "he nolde
his wordes for no man f orbere, but tolde his cherles tale in
his manere.' ' The poet begs to be put out of blame, as he
must rehearse the tales, be they better, or worse, 89 — 91 /
3109—3186
Miller's Tale, of a carpenter, and his wife Alisoun who
with a clerk " cleped hende Nicholas." plots against his
honor, 92—110/3187—3854
Minotaur, a monster, half man and half bull, slain by
Theseus, with the aid of Ariadne, 29/980
Miracle, the, wrought at request of Saturn, in favor of
Palamon, 77/2684, 2685
Mischance, portrayed on the wall of the temple of Mars,
68/2009, 2010
Monday, second day of the week, 71/2486 ; 98/3430 ;
101/3516; 104/3633; 105/3659
Money, chapmen's plough, 176/1478
Monk, description of the, among the Canterbury Pilgrims,
5, 6/165 — 2O7 j called on for a tale, 89/31 18, 3119; his
definition of tragedy, in the prologue to his tale, 256/3163
— 3172 ; his tale de casibiis virorum illustrium (Lucifer,
Adam, Samson, Hercules, Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar,
Zenobia, Nero, Holofernes, Antiochus IV. surnamed Epi-
phanes, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Croesus, Peter
the Cruel of Spain, Peter of Cyprus, Bernabo Visconti of
Milan, Ugolino, Count of Pisa), 266—270/3181—3652
Monk-Nun's-Priest's Link ; the Knight stops the Monk
in his tedious stories, and the Host tells him his talking is
not worth a butterfly, and prays him to say somewhat of
hunting, which the Monk declines to do, and the Host calls
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 53
on the Nun's Priest for " swich thyng as may oure hertes
glade," 281, 282/3957—4010
Monte Viso, in Italy, 404/47 ; 405/58
Mordecai, the Benjamite, 446/1373
Morocco, the strait of (Strait of Gibraltar), 144/465
Moses, leader of the Israelites, 602/195 ; 615/355 ; Ms
fasting alluded to, 390/1 885 — 90 ; alluded to as having
skill in magic, 486/250
Mother, grief of a bereaved, should be allowed to have its
course, for a time, 201/2167
Moyses. See Moses
Mulier est hominis confusio, 292/4354
Murder will out, 186/1766 ; 289/4242
Muses, the Pierides spoken of as, 131/92
Myda. See Midas
Mynotaur. See Minotaur
Nabal, the husband of Abigail, who protected him against
the anger of David (1 Sam. xxv.), 210/2290; 446/1370
Nabugodonosor. See Nebuchadnezzar
Narcissus, a beautiful youth, who slighted the nymph
Echo, and died of love of himself, having seen his own
face in a fountain (Ovid, Met. 3, fab. 5), 507/952 ;
portrayed on the wall of the temple of Venus, 66/1941
Narcisus. See Narcissus
Nature : ther Nature wol nat wirche, ffare wel Phisik, 79/
2759, 60; speech imputed to, in regard to the Eoman
maiden, Virginia, 303, 4/n — 28; cannot be restrained,
681/i6o — 62 ; illustrations of the fact, 581, 2/163 — 86
Nazarenus is as muche for to seye as florissKynge, 609/
288
Nebuchadnezzar, the Great, King of Babylon, story of, in
Monk's Tale, 261, 2/3333—72; pronounced a god, by
Holof ernes, 274/3752 ; his vision alluded to, 596/126
Necessity, wisdom to make a virtue of, 87/3041, 2; "I
made vertu of necessitee," 495/593
Need ; nede has na peer, Hym boes seme hym seine that
has na swayn, 116/4026, 27
Negligence (or recklessness), the nurse of all harm, 648/
710, II ; the remedy, 648/712, 13
Neighbour, how a man shall love his, 630/5 1 7 — 2 1 ; how
an enemy is included in the name, 630, 81/521 — 23
Neot, St., a Saxon Saint, oath by, 108/3771
Neptunus, god of the sea, 509/1 047
Nero, the infamous Eoman Emperor ; the slaughter of,
54 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
portrayed on the wall of the temple of Mars, 68/2032 ;
story of, in Monk's Tale, 271 — 8/3653 — 3740; his burning
of Eome alluded to, 298/4560—63
Neroun (Lat. ace. Neronem). See Nero
Nessus, the Centaur, slain by Hercules with a poisoned
arrow for offering violence to Deianira, 266/3318
New; " ther is no newe gyse that it nas old," 61/2125
ISTewegate. See Newgate
Newgate, name of a prison in London, 128/4402
Nicanor, a general of Antiochus Epiphanes (2 Maccabees
ix.), 275/3781
Nicerates, gen. s. Niceratus, father, or son, of Nicias, the
Athenian general ? Nicerates wyf that for swich cas birafte
hir self hir lyf, 620/1437. [MS. 2, Nyceratis ; 3, nycher-
ates ; 4, Nicharatiffs ; 5, Nicharatyfs ; 6, Nichostratifs]
Nichanore (MSS. 2, 3, Nychanore; 4, 5, Nichasore; 6,
Nichasor) ; the Theban rnayden that for Nichanore hir
seluen slow, 620/1432. Latin note: "Nichanor victis
Thebis vnius captiue virginis superatus est." Which of
the several ancient generals of the name is meant is
uncertain. See Nicanor
Nicholas, the clerk, or scholar, in the Miller's Tale, 92/
3199; 94/3272, 3285, 3288; 95/3298,3303; 97/3386,3396,
3397; 98/3401, 3403, 34.09, 3413, 3420, 3424, 3426; 99/
3437, 3444, 3462 ; 100/3472, 3477
Nicholas, Saint, his early piety alluded to, 184/1 704.
See Tyrwhitt's note, v. 13444
Nicholay. See Nicholas
Niggard ; "he is to greet a nygard that wolde werne a man
to lighte his candle at his lanterne," 343/333, 334
Night-spell, pronounced by the carpenter, in Miller's Tale,
100/3483—3486
Nineveh, capital of the ancient Assyrian empire, 145,'
487 ; 560/974
Noah, the patriarch, 101/3518, 3534, 3539; 102/3560;
103/3582; 104/36i6; 109/38i8; 110/3834; 653/766
Noah's wife, an allusion to her obstinacy, as represented
in the Mysteries, 101/3539, 3540
Noe. See Noah
Non est aliud nomen sub celo, &c. (Acts iv. 12), 687/597
Norfolk (Northfolk), a county in the East of England,
18/6i9
Northhumberland, Northhumbrelond. See Northumber
land
Northumberland, the region of country north of the
H umber (Yorkshire is m3ant, Skeat), 146/5O8 ; 148/578
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 55
Note. See Neot, St.
Nowel (F>: Noel, Christmas, from Lat. natalis), a cry of
joy and festivity, 515/1255
Nun, description of the, among the Canterbury Pilgrims,
4, 5/118—164
Nun-Canon's- Yeoman Link : the Second Nun's Tale of
Saint Cecilia finished, at Boughton - under - Blean the
Pilgrims are overtaken by a Canon and his Yeoman ; the
Canon's appearance described ; talk between the Host and
the Yeoman in regard to the Canon, who drawing near and
hearing what the yeoman is saying of him and his alchemy,
rides away " for verray sorwe and shame." The Yeoman
then proposes to tell all he knows about his master's
rascalities, 547 — 551/554 — 719
Nun's Priest's Tale, of the Cock and Hen (Chanticleer and
Partlet), and the Fox, 283—300/4011—4636
Nynyuee. See Nineveh
Oaths: by the sweete seinte Anne, 880/1613; by- Seint
Austyn, 181/1631; by Seint Charite, Gam. 13/451;- par
charitee, 197/2o8i ; by my croun, 118/4099 ; by the croys
which J?at seint Eleyne fond, 881/951 ; by seint Cutberd,
118/4127; by Seint Denys of ffrance, 172/1341; depar-
dieux, 130/39 ; 874/1395 5 by my fader kyn, 116/4038 ; by
my fader soule, 476/2393; 254/3127; by thy fader kyn,.
577/37 ; by youre fader kyn, 254/3121 ; by my fai, Gam.
9/301; by my fay, 116/4034; 450/1505; by my feith,
375/1403; 397/2137: 570/1334; Gam. 4/95; 25/868; by
my fey, 125/4356; 826/762: 889/203; 340/215; 878/1535;
888/1811; 399/2236; 576/13; vPon mJ feith, 254/3125;
par ma fay, 194/2OIO; by thy feith, 126/4358; 379/1551 ;
vp-on thy fey, 864/1057 ; by youre fey, 868/1002 ; 403/9 5
Elles the feend me fecche out of this place, 168/1064 ; the
foule feend me fecche, 380/i6io ; by Seint Gile, 566/1 185 ;
by God, 116/4026, 4036; 117/4089: 122/4252; 570/1327;
571/1372, etc.; by God aboue, 340/2O7 ; by god oure
heuene kyng, 179/1583; by god \>nt all made, Gam. 14/
469 ; by god that for vs deyde, 437/1 062 ; by god and by
the hooly sacrement, 826/757 ; by god and by Seint lohn,
162/ioig; 338/164; by god and by seint Martyn, 172/
1338; By god and by this Porthos I yow swere, 171/
1325 ; goddes Armes, 324/6g2 ; By goddes Armes, 323/
654 ; goddes Armes two, 357/833 ; by goddes herd, Gam.
9/295 ; By goddes bones, 253/3087 ; 477/2 ; for goddes
bones, 397/2153 ; by goddes booke, Gam. 8/91 ; by goddes
corpus, 107/3743 ; by goddes dignitee, 122/4270 ; 324/7OI ;
for goddes herte, 109/3815 ; By god [des] herte, 117/4087 ;
Ey goddes mercy, 476/2419 ; Ey goddes precious dignitee.
327/782 ; By goddes precious herte and by his nayles And
by the blood of Christ that is in Hayles, 323/651, 2 ; By
God sale, 120/4187; by goddes sweete pyne, 199/2126;
345/385; as help me god, 106/3709; 850/596; 351/6o5 ;
56 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
866/805; as helpe me god, 172/1360; god helpe me sor
299/4615 ; God helpe me so, 170/1464; 357/823; so helpe
me god, 552/74O; so god me saue, 95/3325; 108/3795;
396/2112; 571/i36i; god so saue me, 388/1809; as god
my soule saue, 437/io64 ; god so my soule saue, 419/505 ;
so god my soule blesse, 576/21 ; als wisly god my soule
blesse, 199/21 12; as wisly helpe me the grete god of
kynde, 492/469 ; as helpe me verray god, omnipotent,
346/423 ; So wysly god my soule brynge at reste, 450/
1489 ; So wisly god my soule brynge in blisse, 469/2175 ;
So wisly help me god out of care and synne, 886/1605 ; as
wys god helpe me, 299/4598 ; al so god my soule saue,
329/86o ; so god me speede, 899/2205 ; as help me crist,
391/1949; thanne haue I cristes curs, 881/946; cristes
foo, 108/3782; by cristes ore, Gam. 6/139, I59> ?/23r >
10/323; by Ihesu, 106/3711; by Ihesus, 669/967; by
Ihesus heuene kyng, 99/3464 ; by heuene kyng, 476/2407 ;
By heuene kyng, that for vs alle dyde, 282/3986 ; by hyrn
that harwed helle, 101/3512 ; by that ilke lord that for vs
bledde, 178/1368 ; by nayles arid by blood, 312/288 ; by
Armes and by blood and bones, 89/3125 ; By corpus bones,.
268/3096; 312/314; by corpus dominus, 181/1625 ; by
myn hals, Gam. 12/391; Be seint lame, Gam. 19/665 ;
23/797 ; by seint lame, 876/1443 > by that lord that called
is seint lame, 122/4264 ; by god and by seint lame, 178/
1545; By seynt lame in Galys, Gam. 9/277; by seint
lame in Galys, Gam. 22/764 ; by seint loce, 847/483 ; by
seint John, 326/752 ; 387/i8oo; 400/2252; by god and by
seint lohn, 162/1019 ; 888/164 ; by that lord J?at clepid is
seint Yue, 891/1943 ; by that lord Jmt clepid is Seint Yve,
174/1417 ; bi 3oure lewte, Gam. 19/657 ; by seint Loy, 4/
120 ; by that precious corpus Hadrian, 268/3082 ; by seynt
Martyn, Gam. 2/53; by seint Martyn, Gam. 7/225; by
god and by seint Martyn, 172/1338 ; Marie, 179/1592 ; 562/
1062 ; Seynte Marie, 461/1899 > By seinte Marie, 324/685 ;
lady Seinte Marie, 880/1604; goddes Mooder, 398/22O2 ;
by the heuenes queene, 668/1089 > By oure lady, 670/1354 ;
By myghty Mars, 49/1708 ; by myghty Mars the rede, 50/
1747; By seinte note (i.e. St. Neot), 108/3771; pardee,
339/200; 342/310; 343/335; 864/712; 876/1468; 379/
1565; 888/1675; 442/1234; parfay, 132/1 10 ; 168/1037;
166/849; Peter (i.e. by St. Peter), 846/446; 878/1332;
660/665 ; 668/942, 947 ; on my porthors (3, 5, portoos ; 4,
6, portos, i. e. breviary). I make an ooth, 171/1321 ; By
god and by this Porthors I yow swere, 171/1325 ; by seint
Poules belle, 281/3970; by Seint Kichere, Gam. 6/137;
6/175; H/357; 18/619; bi )?e gode rode, Gam. 19/639;
by Seint Ronyan, 312/3 10 ; by Seint Ronyon, 818/320 ; by
god and by the holy sacrement, 826/757 ; by Seint Symon,
395/2O94; so haue I blis, 292/4348 ; so haue I ioye or blis,
357/830; swa haue I seel, 121/4239; So moote I brouke
wel myne eyen tweye, 296/4490; so moot I go, 649/634;
so moot I goon, 502/777 ; by Termagaunt, 194/2OOO ; So
theek, 111/3864 ; so theech, 881/947 ; 668/929 ; as moot I
thee, 349/532; al so moot I thee, 369/1215; 371/1271 ;
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 57
442/1226; Al so moote I thee, 194/2ooy ; so moot I thee,
287/4i66; 344/36i ; so moot I thee, 812/309; so moot I
thryue, 394/2O34 ; so moote I thryue, 584/255; al so
moot I thryue, 578/8o ; as euere moot I thryue, 408/1 7 2 ;
So thryue I. 886/1764; So browke I myn eie, Gam. 10/
334 ; so browke I myn hals, Gam. 12/407 ; so browke I
my bone. Gam. 15/489; so brouke I my chyn, Gam. 17/
567; so euer here I masse, Gam. 15/515; 17/595; somote
I wel the. Gam. 17/577 ! eue^ mote I thryue, Gam. 17/
586; so mote I wel the, Gam. 24/833; by Seint Thomas,
98/3425 ; 99/3461; 352/666; by seint Thomas of ynde,
442/1230; by seint Thomas of Kent, 95/3291; by my
trouthe, 254/31 18; 828/823; 514/1231 ; condemnation of,
322, 323/629—659
Obedience, conies of Patience, 645/6 74 ; when obedience-
is perfect, 645/675 > what it is, generally, 645/676
Odenathus, or Odenatus, Septimus, ruler of Palmyra, and
husband of Zenobia, 266/3462, 3481, 3485 ; 266/3508,
3517
Old ; Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old, 61/2125
Old age ; elde has greet auantage ; In elde is bothe
wysdom and vsage ; Men may the olde at renne and
noght at rede, 70/2447 — 49 > Avauntyng, Hyng, Anger,
Couetise, Thise foure sparkles longen vn to eelde, 111/
3884, 5 ; Age, that al wol enuenyme, 347/474
Old Testament, 321/575
Olifaunt (•/. e. Elephant), Sire, the giant in the Eime of
Sir Thopas, 194/1998
Oliver, a famous knight of Charlemagne's Court, 268/
3577, 79
Oloferne, Olofernus. See Holofernes
Olyuer, Olyuver. See Oliver
Omer. See Homer
Onedake. See Odenathus
Opiournes. See Epicurus
Oreb. See Horeb
Orewelle, a port in Essex, 8/277
Orleans, a city of France, alluded to as a seat of learning,.
511/1118,1124; 512/1153; 513/1168
Orliens. See Orleans
Orpheus, the mythic Thracian poet and musician, 456/
1716
Osanne. See Hosanna
Osenay (Oseney, Oseneye), an abbey in the suburbs of
Oxford, 94/3274 5 98/3400; 105/3659
Oswald (Osewold), the name of the Eeeve, of the Canter
bury pilgrims, 90/3151 ; 111/3860; 112/3909
58 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Ote, Sir, one of the 3 brothers, sons of Sir John Boundys,
in the spurious Tale of Garnelyn, following 6-T. 128
" Ouer greet a wit, whan a man hath, ful oft hym happeth
to mysusen it," 649/648, 649
" Ouerdoon, that that is, it wol nat preeue aright (omne
nimium vertitur in vitium), 549/645, 646
Guides Art1. See Ovid
Ouyde. See Ovid
Ovid, the Eoman poet (Publius Ovidius Naso), quoted, or
alluded to, 130/54; 131/93; 201/2i66; 224/2515; 229/
2605; 353/630; 353/68o; 361/952; 862/982; 467/2125
Oxenford. See Oxford
Oxford, a city of England, or the university of Oxford, 9/
285; 92/3187; 96/3329; 348/527; 403/1
Padua (Padwe), town in Italy, 404/27
Palamon and Arcite, the Knight's Tale of, 26 — 88/859 —
3108
Palamon, the Theban prince in Knight's Tale, the rival of
his cousin Arcite for the hand of Emilia ; 80/1014 et seq
Palathia, in Anatolia, a lordship held by Christian Knights
under the Turks, 8/65
Palatye. See Palathia
Pallas, Minerva, goddess of wisdom, 304/49
Palmyra, an ancient city of Syria, 264/3437
Palymerie. See Palmyra
Pamphilles. See Pamphilus
Pamphilus, a popular mediaeval Latin poem, in which one
Pamphilus gives a history of his amour with Galatea ;
quoted on the power of riches, 286/2746 — 2751 ; the lover,
511/uio
Panik (MSS. 1, 2, 3, Pavik, Pavyk; MS. 4, Panyke ; 5,
Pavie; 6, Pauyke and Pauyhe ; Petrarch's Lat. . . . ' comiti
de Panico ' and ' Panicius comes ; ' Boccaccio has Panago ;
Skeat adopts Panik), name of a district in Italy? his suster
deere that thilke tyme of Pavik was Countesse, 422/59O ;
the Erl of Pavyk, 427/764 ; 433/939
Paradise, the garden of Eden, 256/3200 ; 295/4448 ; 319/
506, 509; 390/1915; 391/i9i7; 613/325, 326, 327; 664/
883 ; 668/918, 921 ; heaven, 680/227 ; 647/703
Paradys. See Paradise
Pardon, who is worthy to have, for his sins, 247/2963
Pardoner, description of the, among the Canterbury
Pilgrims, 19 — 21/669 — 7T4
CHAUCER'S CAST. TALES : ELLES. MS. 59
Pardoner, the, of the Canterbury Pilgrims, 388/163 ; 339/
185
Pardoner's Preamble; his rascalities and frauds, enumer
ated by himself, 314—317/329—462
Pardoner's Tale, of Death and the three Rioters, 318— 332/
463—968
Parents, advice to, 305, 306/93 — I02
Paris, the capital of France, 4/126; 169/1247; 177/
1522; 178/1556; 353/678
Paris, son of Priam, who ravished Helen, 457/1754;
alluded to as a false lover, 494/548
Parish-clerk, description of a, 95, 96/3312 — 3338
Parlament of Foules, Chaucer's, alluded to, 684/io86
Parnassus, Mount, in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the
Muses, 500/721
Parson, description of the, among the Canterbury Pilgrims,
14, 15/477-528
Parson's Tale, the, a Treatise on Penitence, 592 — 685/75
— 1092. See Penitence
Parthes. See Parthians
Parthians, the people of Parthia, 322/622
Partlet, name of the hen, in Nun's Priest's tale, 284/4o6o,
4075; 280/4078; 291/4295, 4312: 292/4348; 293/4367,
4390. etc.
Parys. See Paris
Pasiphae, wife of Minos, king of Crete, 354/733
Passionate man, great harm to put in high place, 393/
2016
Pater noster,, the Lord's prayer, 104/3638 ; 629/508 ;
680/1039; the P. N. characterized; comprises in itself
till good prayers ; how it must be said ; 686/1039—1047
Pathmos. See Patmos
Patience, the great virtue of, and the incitements to (1
Peter ii. 21—23 ; 2 Cor. iv. 17 ; Prov. xix. ll,xiv. 29, xv.
18, xvi. 32 ; James i. 4, quoted), 233, 234/2691—2708 ; to
be exercised in death of children and loss of worldly goods,
203/2i88; Job cited as example, 203/2189, 2190 ; venquys-
seth thynges )?at rigour sholde neuere atteyne, etc., 502/
773 — 778; a remedy against ire, 643/659 — 661 ; incentives
to, afforded by Christ, 644/663 — 669 ; story of a philosopher
who had lost his patience, and was rebuked by a child,
644/670 — 673 ; obedience comes of patience, 645/674
Patmos, an island in the JEgean, where St. John wrote
his Apocalypse, 186/1773
Paul's, St., of London. See St. Paul's
Paul, St., the Apostle, 202/2179; 212/2320; 222/2481 :
60 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
230/2630; 240/2824; 250/3030; 300/4631 ; 319/521, 523;
320/530—533; 320/547, 548; 336/73; 338/i6o; 843/342
—345; 881/1677; 888/1819; 590/32; 599/162; 612/322;
614/342, 343; 687/598; 689/619; 640/630; 641/634;
642/651; 649/725; 651/739; 652/748; 658/819,820; 663/
867; 664/879; 666/895; 669/929; 681/1054
Pa via, a city in Lombardy, Italy, 443/1245
Pavik, Pavyk. See Panik
Pavye. See Pa via
Peace, the good that comes of, 245/2919
Pedmark. See Penmarch
Pedro Alfonso, a converted Jew of Huesca, in Aragon
(original name Rabbi Moses Sephardi), b. 1062 ; author of
" Dialogi ... in quibus impiae Judseorum opiniones . . .
conf utantur," etc. and Clericalis disciplina ; good or harm
not to be hastily requited, 207/2243 ; the fellowship and
counsel of old enemies to be eschewed, 216/2379 ; might
does not justify the doing of a thing, 218/2408 ; the com
pany of strange men in travel to be mistrusted, 228/2499
— 2502 ; the evils of poverty, 287/2756, 2757
Pegasus (Pegasee), the winged horse of the Muses, 484/
207
Pemondl. See Piedmont
Penalopee. See Penelope
Penance, bodily, an essential of Satisfaction ; four kinds
of, prayers, watchings, fastings, virtuous teachings or
discipline, 679/1038 ; things that disturb p., dread, shame,
hope, and wanhope or despair of mercy, 681/1057 ; the
remedies against these, 682, 688/1059 — 1075 ; the fruit of
p., 688/1076—1080
Penelope, wife of Ulysses, 131/75 ; her chastity alluded
to, 520/1443, 1444
Penitence, the Parson's Treatise on, in 3 parts : 1 on p.
and its first essential, contrition, 593 — 612/75 — 315 ; 2.
confession, 612— 678/3i6— 1028; 3. satisfaction, 679— 683/
1029 — 1080; a full noble way to Christ, 593/8o ; defined
by St. Ambrose, 594/84 ; by a certain doctor, 594/85 » by
the Parson, 594/86 ; 3 actions of p., a. baptism after sin ;
b. not to do deadly sin after baptism ; c. not to fall into
venial sins after baptism, 594, 595/g6 — 100 ; 3 species of
p., a. solemn (to be put out of Holy Church in Lent or to
do open penance) ; b. common (to go naked on pilgrimages,
or barefoot) ; c. private (what men do for private sins for
which they shrive themselves privily), 595/IO2 — 106 ;
likened to a tree, of which contrition is the root, from
which springeth a stalk that beareth branches and leaves
of confession, and fruit of satisfaction, 596/1 12 — 114 ; the
tree of life, 596/127. See Contrition, Confession, Satis
faction
CHAUCER'S OANT. TALES: ELLES. MS. 61
Penmarch, or Penmark, a town and headland on the coast
of Brittany, 16 miles S.W. of Quimper, 502/8oi
Penolopee. See Penelope
People, the fickleness and unreliableuess of the, 434, 35/
995 — 1001
Perce. See Persia
Perceval, Sii, of Galles, the hero of the Eomance of.
alluded to, as a water-drinker, 198/2 106
Percival, Sir. See Perceval
Percyuell, Sire. See Perceval
Perfection, no man should trust in his own, 672/959
" Peril is bothe fyr and tow tassemble," 886/89
Perkyn Reuelour, name of the apprentice in the Cook's
Tale, 127/4371, 4387
Pernaso. See Parnassus
Perotheus. See Perithoiis
Perses. See Persians
Perseverance, lack of [Lachesse], the sin of, 649/7 20; °f
it come poverty and destruction, 649/722
Persia, country in Asia, 264/3442
Persians, people of Persia, 268/3425 ; 264/3438
Pertelote. See Partlet
Pertinacity (a defending of follies), one of the twigs of
Pride, 619/3gi ; denned, 620/404
Peter Alfonso. See Pedro Alfonso
Peter, name of the Merchant in Shipman's Tale, 174/
1404
Peter, king of Cyprus (1352—1369), story of, in Monk's
Tale, 268/3581—88
Peter, Saint, 20/697 ; 100/3486 ; 288/2691 ; 846/446 ;
373/1332; 888/1819; 550/665; 558/942, 947; 698/142;
609/287; 637/597; 655/783; 669/930; 675/988,994
Peter the Cruel, of Spain, story of, in Monk's Tale, 268/
3565—80
Petrak1. See Petrarch
Petrarch, Francis, the Italian poet, 266/3515; 404/31 ;
439/1147 ; "in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke" (Son. 169),
111/3882
Petro. See Peter, king of Cyprus, and Peter the Cruel of
Spain
Phaedrus, the Latin fabulist ; lib. 1. fab. 14, alluded to,
112/3904
Phanye, daughter of king Croesus ; expounds his dream,
280/3941—48
62 IXDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Pharao. See Pharaoh
Pharaoh, king of Egypt in the time of Joseph, 291/4323 ;
623/443
Phasifpha. See Pasiphae
Phehus. See Phoebus
Phidon, slain at a feast in Athens, his daughters drowned
themselves to save their virginity (story from Hieronymus
contra Jovinianum), 618/1369 — 1378
Philipenses, ad. See Philippians
Philip, king of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great,
277/3846
Philippes, gen. sing. See Philip
Philippians, Epistle of St. Paul to the, 687/598
Philistiens. See Philistines
Philistines, a people of the southern sea-coast of Palestine,
who warred with the Israelites, 268/3238
Phillis. See Phyllis
Philostrate, the name assumed by Arcite, 42/1428 ; 45/
1558; 60/1728
Phisiologus. See Physiologus
Phiton. See Python
Phitonissa (i. e. Pythoness). See "Witch of Endor
Phoebus, a name of Apollo, 279/3935 ; 280/3943 ; 580/
105, 125, 130 ; 681/139, 156 ; 082/196, 200, 203 ; 688/238 ;
584/244, 249, 262; the sun, 48/1493; 129/1 1 ; 304/37;
470/2220; 480/48; 486/263; 609/1036, 1041, 1055; 510/
1065,1078; 516/1245. See Apollo
Phyllis, daughter of king Sithon of Thrace, enamoured of
Demophoon and changed into an almond tree (Ovid's
Heroides,!!.), 131/65
Physiologus de Naturis XII. Animalium of Theobaldus (a
popular metrical Latin treatise, in the Middle Ages),
alluded to, 296/4461
Picardie, a province of France, 3/86
Pickpurse, portrayed on the wall of the Temple of Mars,
68/1998
Piedmont, a region in North Italy, 404/44
Pierides, the daughters of Pierus, that contended with the
Muses, and were changed into magpies (Ovid, Met. V.), 131 /
92
Piers, Daun, name of the Monk of the Canterbury
Pilgrims, 281/3982
Piers Alfonce. See Pedro Alfonso
Pigmalion. See Pygmalion
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 63
Pikardye. See Picardie
Pilate, a probable allusion to the character of, in the
Mysteries, "in Pilates voys he gan to crie," 89/3124
Pilgrims to Canterbury described, 2 — 21/43 — 7X4
Pillars of Hercules, the Straits of Gibraltar, 260/3308
Pipen in an yuy leef, 58/1838
Piramus. See Pyramus
Pirithoiis, brother in arms and friend of Theseus, who
obtains Arcite's release from prison, 85/1191 — 1208
Pirrus. See Pyrrhus
Pisa, a city of Italy, 269/3597, 3606 ; 270/3646
Pisces, sign of the Zodiac, 358/704 ; 486/273. &ee Fish
Pity; gentil herte is fulfild of pitee, 150/66o; Lo pitee
renneth soone in gentil herte, 61/1761 ; 468/1986 ; 492/
479 ; largely taken, a remedy against avarice, 667/804 — 10
Pize. See Pisa
Placebo, vesper hymn for the dead (Ps. cxvi. 9), 395/
2075 ; used in a general sense of a hymn or song to please,
688/617
Placebo, one of the complacent friends of January, in the
Merchant's Tale, 449/1476, 1478; 450/1520; 452/1571;
453/i6i7
Plato, the Greek philosopher, 21/741 ; 578/1448, 1453,
1456, 1460, 1463 ; 583/207
Pleyndamour, Sir, Eomance of, alluded to, 197/2090
Plowman, description *of the, among the Canterbury
Pilgrims, 15, 16/529 — 41
Pluto, god of the infernal regions, 60/2082; 66/2299;
77/2685 ; 465/2038 ; that is Kyng of ffairye, 470/2227 ;
472/2311; 474/2354; 510/1075
Po, a river in Italy, 404/48
Poilleys, i. e. Apulian ; from Apulia, in Italy, celebrated
for its horses. " Ther-with so horsly and so quyk of eye
As it a gentil Poilleys courser were," 484/195
Polygamy, defended by Wife of Bath, 334/9 et seq.
Pompei. See Pompey
Pompeus. See Pompey
Pompey (Cneius Pompeius), the Great, 186/199; 277/
3870 ; 278/3878, 3883
Poo. See Po
Poperingue, a parish in the Marches of Calais, S. by "W.
from Ostende, 191/1910
Poperyng1. See Poperingue
<64 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Portia (Porcia), the wife of Brutus ; her wifely devotion,
520/1448 — 1450
Possessions, vain without virtue, 498/686, 687
Potiphar's wife, story of Joseph and, 664/88o, 88 1
Poules, gen. s. Paul's. See St. Paul's
Poverty, personified and invoked by the Man of Law, 132/
99 — 112; the evils of, 236, 237/2752 — 2762; praise of
cheerful and honest, 868/1177 — 1206; in four things, in
the world to come, against the riches of this world, 601,
602/192 — 199
Powles, gen. s. Paul's. See St. Paul's
Praise, popular, sometimes very false and brittle, 626/473
Prayer : Accidie or Sloth, an enemy to, 646/683 > defined,
680/1039 > its efficacy (St. Jerome quoted), 680/1047 >
" right as an hank vp at a sours Vp springeth in-to their
[the air], right so prayeres Of charitable and chaste bisy
freres Maken hir sours to goddes eres two," 391/1938 —
1941
PRAYERS, ENTREATIES, IMPRECATIONS, Tows, etc.
•Christ : ffor Ihesus loue, 106/3717 ; for Cristes swete tree,
108/3767; f or cristes peyne, 117/4084; ffior Cristes saule,
122/4263 ; for cristes passion, 126/4327 ; crist that starf
for our sauacion So yeue me grace hise heestes to ful-
fille. 138/283, 284; Ihesu crist be with you alle, 139/3i8;
thanked be cristes grace, 151/686 ; Now Ihesu Crist that
of his myght may sende loye after wo, gouerne vs in his
grace And kepe vs alle that been in this place, Amen,
166/1 160 — 1162; for the loue of Crist J>at for vs dyde,
323/658 ; for hym that harwed helle, 396/2 107 ; for cristes
passion, Gam. 14/477
Devil: the foule feend hym quelle, 551/705; the foule
feend hym fecche, 665/1159; the deuel out of his skyn
Hym terve (2, 4, 6, torne ; 3, 5, turne,) I pray to god, for
his falshede, 668/1273, 1274
-God: God spede you, 78/2558; God saue swich a lord,
73/2563 ; God shilde that he deyde sodeynly, 98/3427 ; for
goddes banes, 117/4073 ; I pray to God so yeue me sorwe
and care, 126/4335 ; god forbede, 126/4339 ; 207/2248 ;
for the loue of god and of Seint lohn, 129/1 8 ; god hym
see, 134/156; I pray to god in honour hire susteene, 134/
1 60 ; almyghty god thee gyde, 137/245 i heryed be goddes
grace, 157/872 ; ffor wynd and weder almyghty God
purchace, 167/873 i God yeve him meschance, 159/914 ;
Now god, quod he, and hise halwes brighte, So wisly on
my saule as haue mercy, 163/io6o, 1061 ; God shilde, 172/
1356 ; god take on me vengeance, 178/1383 ; al so God me
saue, 174/1416 ; God and seint Austyn spede yow and
gyde, 175/1449; god shilde yow fro care, 176/1454; god
vs sende Taillynge ynough vn-to oure lyues ende, 180/
1624; God shilde his cors fro shonde, 197/2098 ; for goddes
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 65
•dignitee, 199/2109; 8°& yelde yow, 219/1772 ; I vowe to
god, 254/3122 ; I pray to god yeue him confusioun, 254/
3133; God yeue me sorwe, 254/3140; so god yow blesse,
281/3978; god his soule blesse, 296/4485; god lat him
neuere thee, 800/4622 ; I make auow to goddes digne
bones, 324/695; g°d yow see, 825/715; God sane yow
J?at boghte agayn mankynde, 826/766 ; god yeue his soule
reste, 348/5OI ;' God lete his soule neuere come in helle,
348/504; god his soule blesse, 848/525; God haue hir
soule, 349/53O; ffor goddes loue, 364/io6o; 366/1096;
God sende hem soone verray pestilence, 870/1264; on
goddes name, 371/1276; I pray to god saue thee, and
seint loy, 879/1564; And God fjat made after his ymage
mankynde, saue and gyde vs alle and some, 881/1642,
1643 ; God saue yow alle, saue this cursed frere, 884/1707 ;
Deus hie, 886/1770 ; god amende defautes, 888/1810; god
be thanked of his loone, 389/i86i ; Te deum, 389/i866;
god yow see, 898/2169; God yelde yow, 398/2177 ; god
lat hym neuere thee, 399/22O7 ; god lete thee neuere thee,
399/2232 ; god hym saue, 400/2265 ; I prey to god so
yeue his soule reste, 404/3O ; as god forbede, 407/136;
god forbeede, 437/1076 ; God shilde that it sholde so bif alle,
442/1232; so God yow blesse, 442/I24O; ther god his
bones corse, 444/i3oS; god haue yow in his grace, 455/
1688 ; God shilde vs alle from youre aqueyntance, 458/
1787 ; God graunte thee thyn hoomly fo tespye, 458/
1792; ffor goddes loue, 459/i8i4; ^91/464; God be thyn
helpe, 460/1874; Grod blesse vs and his mooder Seinte
Marie, 475/24i8 ; god yeue thee good chaunce, 493/679 ;
for thilke god aboue, 517/1321 ; god yeue thee chance,
548/593 i God it amende, 549/651 ; god yeue it harde
grace, 550/665; god forbede, 560/996; 662/1046; god
forbeede, 662/1064 ; God kepe vs from his false dissymu-
lynge, 668/1073 ; for goddes loue, 666/1176; Goddes
blessyng and his mood res also And alle halwes have ye,
667/1243, 1244; ffor loue of God that for vs alle deyde,
676/1351; God it forbeede, 671/1375; God sende euery
trewe man boote of his bale, 574/1 481 ; god yeue thee
sorwe, 576/15 » on goddes name, 686/318 ; to do wel god
sende yow his grace, 591/74; Ranked be goddes sonde,
Gam. 18/419; god sende vs gode, Gam. 19/640; haue
god my treuthe, Gam. 20/678 ; haue god my lyfe, Gam.
21/714; So god jeue me good rest, Gam. 24/841 ; God
bring vs to J?e loye £at euer shal be, Gam. 26/902
Lord: He that is lord of ffortune be thy steere, 144/448;
Lord, wel come be thy lust and thy plesance, My lust I
putte al in thyn ordinance, 154/7&2, 763 ; lord, ay wel
come be thy sonde, 166/826
Mary, the Virgin: cristes mooder blessed be she ay, 160/
950 ; Ave Maria, 188/1698 ; 0 seinte Marie, benedicite, 193/
1974; a Seinte Marie benedicite, 446/1337; for hir loue
)?at is of heuene queene, 478/2334 ; God blesse vs and his
mooder Seinte Marie, 475/2418; Goddes blessyng and his
moodres also And alle halwes have ye, 667/1243, 1244
ELLES. INDEX. F
66 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Miscellaneous: Osanne, 150/642 ; forseinte charitee, 297/
45 10 ; 396/21 19 : for seint charite, 16/513 : Grantmercy, 375/
1403: 571/1380; Graunt mercy, 888/1812; 437/io88 ;
666/1156; forseinte Trinitee, 888/1824 ; Er that he dye,
sorwe haue he and shame, 661/709 ; yuele moot he cheeue,
567/1225 ; for Cokkes (i.e. Goddes) bones, 576/9 ; 590/29;
foule moote thou falle. 577/4O; Now faire yow befalle,
591/68; for J>e gode rode, Gam. 21/707; euel mote thu
the, Gam. 21/720; so mote I wel the, Gam. 24/833
Preaching must be to willing ears, 206/2234
Presumption, one of the twigs of Pride, 619/391 ; defined,
620/403
Priam, king of Troy ; his slaying of Pyrrhus (Aeneld, ii.
333, 334, 550—553) alluded to, 298/4547—4549
Priapus, son of Bacchus and Yenus, god of gardens, 465/
2034
Pride, one of the Seven Deadly Sins, 619—626/387—
475 ; its remedy, 626, 627/476—483
Prioress, description of the, among the Canterbury
Pilgrims, 4, 5/n8 — 164
Prioress's Prologue, an invocation to God and the Virgin,
to guide her song, 182, 188/1643 — 1677
Prioress's Tale, of a Christian child killed by the Jews,
183— 189/1678— 1880
Prioress-Thopas Link ; the Prioress's tale finished, the
Host addresses Chaucer, alludes to his personal appearance,
and asks him to tell a tale of mirth, 190/i88i — 1901
Procrastination in well-doing, to be avoided, 248/2984,
2985
Prologue, General, to the Canterbury Tales ; early spring
described, when folk long to go on pilgrimages, l/i — 18;
the meeting of the Canterbury pilgrims at the Tabard Inn,
in Southwark, 1, 2/19—34 ; the character, degree, and
array of the several pilgrims, described, 2 — 21/43 — 714;
the poet asks that it be not ascribed to his ' villainy,' if he
use language in keeping with his characters, 21/725 — 742;
the supper, 22/747 — 75°; the Host described, 22/751 —
757 ; his proposal for the entertainment of the pilgrims on
the way to Canterbury and back, 22, 28/758 — 809; they
pray the Host to be their governor, and judge of the tales,
23, 24/8io — 818; they start next morning, and draw lots
at 'the watering of St. Thomas,' 24/822—841; the lot
falls to the Knight to tell the first tale, 24/842—858
Prologue of the Monk's Tale, 253 — 255/3079 — 3180. See
Melibe-Monk Link
Prologue of the Nun's Priest's Tale, 281, 282/3957 — 4010.
See Monk-Nun's-Priest Link
Prologue of the Wife of Bath's Tale, 334—58/1—856.
See Wife of Bath's Preamble
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 67
Prologue of the Friar's Tale, 371/1265 — 1300. See Friar's
Prologue
Prologue of the Summoner's Tale, 383, 4/1665 — 1708.
See Friar-Sunimoner Link
Prologue of the Clerk's Tale, 403, 4/1—56. See Clerk's
Head-Link
Prologue of the Merchant's Tale, 442/1213 — 44- &ee
Clerk-Merchant- Link
Prologue of the Squire's Tale, 476/2419 — 40. See Mer
chant's End-Link
Prologue of the Franklin's Tale. The Franklin alludes to
the ancient Breton lays sung to instruments, '' and oon of
hem haue I in remembraunce which I shal seyn with good
wyl as I kan ; " asks to be excused of his rude speech, as
he has never learned rhetoric, nor slept on Mount Parnassus,
nor learned Cicero, 600/709 — 28
Prologue of the Canon's Yeoman's Tale, 547 — 51/554 —
719. See Nun-Canon's- Yeoman-Link
Prologue of the Manciple's Tale, 576 — 9/i — 104. See
Manciple's Head-Link
Prologue of the Parcloner's Tale, 314 — 17/329 — 462. See
Pardoner's Preamble
Prologue of the Prioress's Tale, an invocation to the Lord
and to the Virgin, for help to tell her story, 182, 88/1643 —
77
Prologue of the Second Nun's Tale ; the S. 1ST. discourses
of idleness, to put us from which she will tell the glorious
life and passion of St. Cecilia ; invokes the Virgin to help
her, 527—30/1—84
Prologue of the Parson's Tale, 589 — 91/i — 74. See
Blank-Parson Link
Promise. See Biheste
Proserpina (Proserpyne), daughter of Ceres and wife of
Pluto, 465/2039 ; 470/222g ; 471/2264
Prosperity, not to be trusted, 256/3187
Protesilaus, leader of the Thessalians against Troy; his
wife's devotion alluded to, 620/1445 — 7
Protheselaus. See Protesilaus
Protholomee. See Ptolemy
Proverbs, Maxims, and Sententious Expressions in general :
15/soo; 17/586; 19/652,658; 21/742; 24/830; 34/1164,
1165, 1169; 35/1182; 44/1521 — 1524; 44,45/1532, 1533;
47/1625, 1626; 51/1761; 53/1838; 61/2125; 70/2447—
2449; 75/2636; 79/2777, 2778; 2759,2760; 81/2841;
2847—2849; 87/3041,3042; 90/3143; 91/3186; 93/3829,
3830; 95/3299,3300; 97/3381, 3382; 3387; 3392,3393;
i*9/345o; 101/3530; 102/3545,3546; 1 03/3 598 ; 3611-
P -2
68 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
3613; 112/3903,3904; 3912; 114/3961; 3983,3984;
116/4026, 4027; 4054, 4055 ; 118/4129, 4130; 119/4134;
120/4i8i, 4182; 121/4210; 124/4320, 4321; 126/4331;
4333,4334; 4355; 126/43575 127/4395; 128/4397,4398;
4406 — 4410; 4415 — 4417; Gam. 18/631; 20/672; 129/
27, 28; 130/4i; 43, 44; 186/194—196; 143/421—424;
426, 427; 150/66o ; 152/706; 154/776, 777; 166/1133,
1134; 1135—1138; 186/1766; 205/2220; 2226; 206/
2234 ; 2238 ; 207/2244 ; 209/2276 ; 212/2325 ; 218/2405 ;
221/2454; 248/2984,2985; 254/3146; 289/4242; 293/
4395; 294/4424; 305/83—85; 91, 92; 306/iDi, 102;
311/286; 336/89; 337/102—104; 339/i8o, 181 ; 341/269,
270; 343/326, 327; 333, 334; 345/389; 415; 348/522,
523; 352/655—658; 354/732; 366/1128 — 1132; 367/
1170; 368/1183; 388/1674; 392/1968, 1969; 393/1989;
408/157, 158; 430/857; 448/1419, 1420; 451/1538; 463/
1986; 465/2055; 467/2U5; 484/2O3 ; 492/479; 491 !
494/537 ; 495/593 ; 602, 603 ; 495, 496/6o8, 609 ; 602/773 ;
777, 778 ; 549/645, 646 ; 648, 649 ; 550/688, 689 ; 552/
746,747; 558,559/962 — 965; 560/995; 572/141051413;
576/5; 583/208; 087/350; 355
Pruce. See Prussia
Prudence, the wife of Melibeus, in the Tale told by
Chaucer, 201 — 252/2157 — 3078, passim ; compared, by the
Host, with his shrewish wife, 253, 254/3079 — 3113
Prussia, a country of Europe, 2/53
Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus), the celebrated astronomer
and geographer, 339/i82 ; 343/324 ; 401/2289
Puella, a figure in geomancy, signifying Mars retrograde,
59/2045
Purs is the Ercedekenes helle, 19/658
Pycardie. See Picardie
Pygmalion, an ancient artist who fell in love with a female
statue he had made, and to which, at his petition, Venus
gave life (Ovid. Met. x.), 303/14
Pykardie. See Picardie
Pyramus, the lover of Thisbe, 467/2128
Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, called also l^eoptolemus ; 139/
288 ; his slaying of Priam alluded to, 298/4547
Python, the serpent slain by Apollo, 580/109, 128
Pyze See Pisa
Quest io quid juris, 19/646
Qui cum patre, 886/1734 ; 685/1092
Rachel, the mother in the Prioress's Tale, spoken of as
" This newe Eachel," referring to Matt. ii. 18, 187/i8i7
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 69
Eadix maloruni est Cupiditas, the theme of the Pardoner,
314/334; 816/426
Ealph, used as a general name, 878/1357
Earn, sign of the Zodiac, 1/8 ; 489/386. See Aries
Earn, the prize in wrestling, 16/548; Gam. 6/172, 184;
9/280
Eaphael, the angel, 667/906
Eauf. See Ealph
Eazis. See Ehasis
Eebekah (Eebecca, Eebekka, Eebekke), wife of Isaac, the
patriarch, 210/2288 ; 446/1363; 456/1704
Eedress ; " gif a man in a point be ygreued, in another he
sal be releued," 120/4181,4182
Eeeve, description of the, among the Canterbury Pilgrims?
17, 18/587 — 622 ; his words to the drunken Miller, 96/3144
— 49; "a cherl," 91/3183; " the deuel made a reue for
to preche," 112/3903
Eeeve's Prologue ; the company all make merry over the
Miller's Tale, except the Reeve, who takes it as personal,
"by-cause he was of carpenteris craft." He could retaliate,
but from age was not inclined to speak ribaldry. The
Host stops his sermoning about age, and tells him to go on
with his story and not take up the time, as they are already
near Deptford and Greenwich, and it is half way prime,
111, 112/3855-3920
Eeeve's Tale of the Miller of Trumpington and the two
Clerks, 113 — 124/3921 — 4324
Remedia Amoris, Ovid's, vv. 127, 128, quoted, 201/2167
Eeproach. See Chiding
Eevel and Truth, "they ben ful wrothe al day," 128/4397,
4398
Ehasis, a Spanish Arab physician of the 10th century,
13/432
Eichard I. of England ; his death beAvailed in Geoffrey de
Vinsaufs De Poetria Nova, 297/4537 — 4539 : oaths " by
Seint Eichere," Gam. 6/137 ; 6/175; H/357 > 18/619
Eichere, St. See Eichard I.
Eiches, good, when well gotten and well used, 236 — 241/
2743 — 2837 ; "som folk wol ben wonnen for richesse And
somme for strokes, and somme for gentillesse," 97/3381,
3382
Eiot. See Insurrection and Theft
Eisus. See Eufus
Eobert, Sir, used as a general name of a secular clergyman,
373/1356
70 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Robin, the name of the Miller of the Canterbury Pilgrims,
89/3129
Kobin, the Carpenter's boy in the Miller's Tale, 99/3466 ;
102/3555
Robyn. See Robin
Rochelle (Rochel), a seaport town of France, 821/571
Rochester, a city in Kent, England, on the route of the
Canterbury Pilgrims, 254/31 16
Rodogone, mirror of wifely chastity, 521/1457
Roger, Archbishop of Pisa (Ruggieri degli Ubaldini),
enemy of Ugolino, 268/3606
Roger, the name of the Cook with the Canterbury
Pilgrims, 125/4345, 4353, 4356. See Hodge
Roman, n. a native or citizen of Rome, 519/1404; pi.
Komans, the Roman people, 139/291 ; 142/394; 202/2179;
298/4555 J 519/Hoi ; 531/I2I
Roman, adj. pertaining to Rome, 166/954 ; 267/3526,
3551 ; 352/642; The Romayn geestes, the Gesta Roman-
orum, 472/2284; the olde Romane Geestes, 165/1 126
Romance of the Rose, alluded to, 460/2032
Romayn, Romayns. See Roman, Romans
Rome, a city of Italy, 14/465; 19/671; 20/689; 134/
142, 145, '156; 139/290,309; 160/966,968; 161/974,991;
166/1148, 1149; 266/3506; 267/3525, 3542; 271/3669;
277/3866,3867; 278/3879,3885; 298/4561; 353/673; 426/
737 ; 485/231 ; 519/HO6; 540/36i ; 560/975
Ronan, St., oaths by, 812/310 ; 318/320
Ronceval (Roncevaux), the place where Roland and the
paladins of Charlemagne were slaughtered by the Saracens,
and where a chapel was afterwards built, dedicated to the
Virgin, and much resorted to by pilgrims; <:a gentil
Pardoner of Rounciuale," 19/670
Ronyan, Ronyon, St. See Ronan
Rosarie. See Rosarium Philosophorum
Rosarium Philosophorum, a treatise on alchemy, by
Arnauld de Villeneuve, quoted : " Ther may no man
Mercuric mortifie," 572/1429
Rose, Romance of the, alluded to, 465/2032
Rouchestre. See Rochester
Rounciuale. See Ronceval
Rubens, a figure in geomancy, signifying Mars direct, 59 /
2045
Ruce. See Russia
Rufus, a Greek physician of Ephesus, of the age of Trajan,
author of several medical treatises, 18/430
CHAUCER'S CAXT. TALES: ELLES. MS. 71
Eussel, daun, name of the fox, in Nun's Priest's Tale,
297/4524
Russia (Russye), the easternmost country of Europe, 2/
54 ; 479/10
Sacrifice to Diana, description of Emily's, in Knight's
Tale, 66—8/2171—2366
Sacrilege, spiritual theft, 656, 7/8oi — 3
St. Denis, a suburb of Paris, 168/1191 ; 169/1249 ; 170/
1257; 176/1498; 177/1516
St. Paul's, church in London, 15/509 ; With Powles
wyndow coruen on his shoos, 96/3318 ; oath " by Seint
Poules belle," 281/3970
Salomon. See Solomon
Saluce, Saluces. See Saluzzo
Saluzzo, a town of Italy, S. of Turin, 404/44 j 405/63 ;
416/414, 420 ; 427/772, 775 ; 428/783
Samaritan, the woman of Samaria (John iv.), 334/i6, 22
Sampson, Sampsoun. See Samson
Samson, or Sampsoun, 12th Judge of Israel; 820/554;
321/572 ; 672/955 ; I [Saturn] slow Sampso«n shakynge
the piler, 71/2466 ; his death fore-written in the stars, 136/
201 ; story of, in Monk's Tale, 257 — 9/3205 — 84; never
drank wine, 320/555 i his locks shorn and eyes put out,
354/721—3
Samuel, the Hebrew prophet, last judge of Israel, 321/
585 ; 378/1510
Sapor I., king of Persia (A.D. 240—271), 266/3510
Sarah, or Sarai, the wife of the patriarch Abraham, 455/
1704
Sarra, wife of Abraham. See Sarah
Sarray (anc. Sarai, mod. Tzarev), near Sarepta, " in the
land of Tartarye," 479/9 ; 480/46
Satalye. See Attalia
Satan, the spirit of evil, 107/3750 ; 141/365 ; 148/582,
598; 150/634; 186/1748; 256/3195 ; 378/1526; 882/1655;
383/i686, 1687, 1689; 666/895
Satisfaction, the 3d essential of Penitence, consists most
generally in alms and bodily penance, 679 — 688/1029 — 80;
the fruit of the tree of Penitence, 596/1 14
Sathan, Sathanas. See Satan
Saturday (Saterday), the seventh day of the week, 98/
3399, 3419 ; 105/3665
Saturn, the god ; 70/2443, 2450, 2453 ; 76/2668 ; 77/
72
INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
2685; the planet of malign influence, 32/io88 ; 39/1328;.
enumerates to Venus the effects of his malign influence,
70, 71/2453—2478 ; a name for lead, 606/828
Saturnus. See Saturn
Sayne. See Seine
Scariot. See Judas Iscariot
Scholar, the true, characterized, 9/308 ; " the gretteste
clerkes been noght wisest men," 116/4054
Scipio Africanus, the conqueror of the Carthaginians, 291/
.4314
Scithero. See Cicero
Scithia. See Scythia.
Scorners, compared to the foul toad, 641/636 ; parting-
fellows with the devil, and adversaries of Christ, 641/
637,8
Scorning, a wicked sin, 641/635
Scot, the name of the Reeve's horse, 18/6i6; name of a
horse, 378/1543
Scotland (Scotlond), country north of England, 152/7i8
Scots (Scottes), the people of Scotland, 148/580
Scriptural Allusions. See Bible
Scythia, " the regne of ffemenye That whilom was ycleped
Scithia, 26/86;."
Sea of Greece, the Mediterranean, 144/464
Second Nun's Tale, of St. Cecilia, 530—546/85—553
Secree of the Secretes, Secreta Secretorum, a treatise sup
posed to contain the sum of Aristotle's instructions to-
Alexander, 673/1447
Seine, a river in France, 514/1222
Seintes Legende of Cupide, Chaucer's Legende of Goode
Women, referred to by the Man of Law, 130/6i
Semiramis, the mythical queen of Assyria ; the Sultaness
of Syria addressed as " Semyrame the Secounde," 141/359
Sempronius Sophus, story of, in Valerius Maximus, vi. 3,.
of his forsaking his wife, alluded to, 862/647
Semyrame. See Semiramis
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, the Roman philosopher and
moralist, 129/25; 202/2174, 2182; 208/226 1 ; 212/2317;
213/2337; 216/2375; 218/2416; 224/2510; 230/2627,
2638, 2640; 231/2645; 232/2678; 286/2721; 247/2965;
251/3049, 3056; 272/3693, 3705; 319/492; 367/1168;
368/1184; 393/2018; 446/1376; 450/1523; 452/1567;
586/345 ; 688/144, H5 5 668/759
Senek1, Senekke. See Seneca
Senior. See Senioris Zadith
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 73
Senioris Zadith fil. Hamuelis tabula chymica (cont'd ia
the Theatrum Chemicum, Vol. v. p. 219, p. 191, ed. 1660),.
alluded to, 673/1450
Senses, five. See Five senses
Sententious expressions. See Proverbs
Septe. See Ceuta
Serapion, an Arabian physician, llth cent., 18/432
Sergeant of Law, description of the, among the Canterbury
Pilgrims, 9, 16/309 — 30
Servants, the counsel of, to be eschewed, 216/2380; a
riotous servant, well got rid of, 128/4409, 10
Seven deadly sins, The (Pride, Envy, Ire or Anger,
Accidie or Sloth, Avarice or Covetousness, Gluttony,.
Lechery), treated of, 619—672/387—957
Sheffield, a city of England, celebrated for its cutlery, 113/
3933
Shepherd, a negligent, 306/ior, 102
Shipman, description of the. among the Canterbury Pil
grims, 12/388 — 410
Shipman's Tale, of Dan John and the Merchant of St.
Denis, 168—80/1191—1624
Shipman - Prioress Link ; the Host compliments the
Shipman, and calls " as curteisly as it had ben a mayde," on
the Prioress for a tale, 181/1625 — 1642
Shrews. See "Wicked
Sickness, causeth often to do or say amiss, 062/781 — 3
Sidyngborne. See Sittingbourne, a town in Kent, 357/
847
Signiftcavit, a writ of excommunication, of Avhich it is the
initial word, 19/662
Similes. See Comparisons and Similes
Simkin, name of Miller in the Reeve's Tale, 1 13/3941,.
3945, 3947
Simon Magus, of Acts viii. 9 — 24, who wished to purchase
the power of conferring the Holy Spirit, 666/783
Simon, St., oath by, 395/2094
Simon, the Pharisee (Lxike vii. 40), 629/504
Simonials (from Simon Magus); "bothe he that selleth
and he that beyeth thynges espirituels been cleped Symon-
yals," 666/784
Simony, " cleped of Simon Magus " (Acts viii. 9 — 24),.
372/1309; 666/783 ; different kinds of, 666/784—787 ; St.
Damasus quoted, 666/788
Sin; "for to do synne is mannyssh", but certes for to
perseuere longe in sinne is werk of the deuel," 221 2454 ;
74 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AXD SUBJECTS TO
"forsaketh synne er synne yow forsake," 31 1/286 ; what it
is, according to St. Augustine, 672/959 ; sins, whence they
spring (St. Paul quoted), 612/322 ; came thro' Adam, 612/
323 ; all are born sons of wrath and damnation, unless
rescued by baptism, 618/335 ; how they grow (Moses
quoted), 615, 616/350 — 357 ; venial and deadly, defined,
616/358—367 ; deadly, defined by St. Augustine, 617/368 ;
divers small sins specified, on the authority of St.
Augustine, 617, 618/371 — 381 ; no man can eschew all
venial sins, but they can be restrained, by love to Christ,
prayer, confession, good works, receiving the sacrament,
holy water, almsdeed, etc., 618/382 — 386 ; the Seven Deadly
Sins, their dependencies and species, and their remedies,
619 — 672/387 — 957 ; circumstances that aggravate sins.
672/960—978
Sinai, the mount from which the law was delivered to
Moses, 390/1887
Sinon, the treacherous Greek who induced the Trojans to
receive the wooden horse into their city, 484/2O9 ; apostro
phised as type of treachery, 294/4418
Sirach, Jesus, son of. See Jesus
Sisera, probable allusion to the death of (Judges iv.), 58/
2007
Sittingbourne, a town in Kent, between Rochester and
Canterbury, on the route of the Pilgrims, 867/847
Sleep, the nurse of digestion, 488/347
Sleeping long, a nurse to lechery, 671/952
Sloth, one of the seven deadly sins. See Accidie and
Idleness
Smiler, the (one who hides cruel purposes under a cloak
of good will), portrayed on the wall of the temple of Mars,
68/1999
Smylere. See Smiler
Socrates, the Athenian philosopher, 1 86/201 ; 854/728
Sol, the sun; a name for gold, 558/826 ; 578/1440
Soler halle, the, at Cantebregge, supposed to be Clare
Hall, at Cambridge (See Tyrwhitt's n. on v. 3988), 115/
399°
Solomon, king of Israel, son and successor of David, 56/
1942; 101/3529; 125/4330; 132/113; 203/2187,2193;
206/2237; 207/2247; 209/2266, 2268; 210/2277; 211/
2303; 214/2348, 2357; 210/2361, 2363, 2368; 216/2376,
2384 ; 223/2507 ; 229/26o6 ; 282/2675 ; 286/2729, 2732 ;
286/2740; 237/276i, 2762; 238/2779, 2780; 240/28i8,
2828; 242/2854, 2861; 243/2886; 244/2894, 2897, 2899,
2909; 245/2929; 246/2944; 886/35; 868/679; 403/6;
449/1483, 1487 ; 470/2242 ; 471/2277 ; 472/2292 ; 586/
314, 344; characterized, 472/2292 — 2302; 596/1 19; 597/
127; 699/155,168; 604/227,229; 684/566,568; 689/613;
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 75
640/629; 641/631, 633; 642/649; 645/679; 646/688;
648/709 ; 662/854 ; 672/955 ; alluded to as having skill in
m;igic, 485/250 ; the name used metaphorically for a wise
man. 558/961
Somnolence (" sloggy slombrynge, which maketh a man be
heuy and dul in body and in soule "), the sin of, and its
remedy (Prov. viii. 17, quoted), 648/7o6 — 9
Somnorer. See Summoner
Somonour, Sompnour. See Summoner
Sonday. See Sunday
" Sooth play, quaad pley," as the flemyng seith, 126/4357
Sophie, daughter of Melibeus and his wife Prudence, in
the Tale of Melibeus, 201— 52/2157— 3078
Sorrow, worldly, the sin of. See Worldly Sorrow
Sorrowful heart makes the bones dry, 208/2185
Southwark, a part of London south of the Thames, 1/20;
21/718 ; the ale of, 89/3140
Southwerk. See Southwark
Sovereignty, why ordained by God, 654/744
Sowdan of Surrye. See Sultan
Spain (Spaigne, Spayne), a country of Europe, 12/409 ;
268/3565 ; 321/565, 570
" Spoon, a ful long, bihoueth hire that shal ete with a
feend," 495/6O2, 603
Spring, early, described, l/i — n
Squire, description of the, among the Canterbury Pilgrims,
3, 4/79 — 10°
Squire's Head-Link ; the Host calls on the Squire to say
somewhat of love, who replies that he will say as he can,
478/1—8
Squire's Prologue, 476/2419 — 40. See Merchant's End-
Link
Squire's Tale of Cambynskan, the Tartar king, and of the
wondrous horse of brass, and the magic mirror and ring,
479—497/9—672
Squire-Franklin Link ; the Franklin compliments the
Squire, and praises " gentillesse " ; the Host orders him to
tell on his tale without more words, 498, 9/673 — 708
Stars, every man's death written in the, 186/194 — 6
Statius, Publius Papinius, the Thebaid of, referred to, 66/
2294
Steed of brass, described, 482/H5 — 131
Stewardships, oppressive, come of covetousness, 652/753.
Stilboii, "a wys embassadour . . . sent to Corynthe . . .
76 INDEX OP PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
ffro Lacidomye to makenhire Alliaunce [John of Salisbury
calls him Chilon. Polycrat. lib. 1. c. 5. Chilon Lacedse-
monius, jugendae societatis causil missus Corinthum," etc.
Tymvhitt], 822/603
Stratford-atte-Bowe, 4/125; Stratford at Bow in Essex,
north-east of London
Straw, Jack, an insurgent in Wat Tyler's insurrection,
299/4584
Strike while the iron is hot, 205/2226
Strother, " the valley of Langstroth, or Langstroth-dale, in
the West Riding of Yorkshire," 116/4014
Stymphalides, a maiden loved by Aristoclides, 519/1388
Suetonius Tranquillus, Caius, Roman biographer, author
of the lives of the first twelve Caesars, 271/3655 ; 279/
3910
Suffer, learn to, 502/777
Suicide, The, portrayed on the wall of the Temple of
Mars, 68/2005, 6
Sulpitius Gallus, Caius or Cnseus. See Gallus
Sultan of Syria, 135/177, *86; 186/204; 137/239; HO/
323 ; 141/354, 375, 3§2 ; 142/388, 395, 4<>7 ; 143/436
Sultaness of Syria, 141/358, 372 ; 142/405 ; 143/414,
432; 160/958
Summoner, description of the, among the Canterbury
Pilgrims, 18, 19/623—68 ; his brush with the Friar, 357/
832—49
Summoner, a, characterized by the Friar, 371/1283 — 85 ;
the Summoner of the Friar's Tale, 372— 882/1321— 1664
Summoner, a satire on the, Friar's Tale, 372 — 82/1301 —
1664
Summoner's Prologue, 383, 4/1665 — 1708. See Friar-
Summoner-Link
Summoner's Tale, on the hypocritical rapacity of friars,
and how a sick man bestowed a remarkable gift on a friar,
to be equally distributed among the brethren of his con
vent, 385 — 401/1709 — 2294
Sunday, first day of the week, 68/2188, 2209; 98/3422 ;
.176/1497
Surrien, Surryen. See Syrian
Surrye. See Syria
Surryens. See Syrians
Susanna (Susanne), wife of Joacim, accused of adultery,
by the Elders (Apocryphal ' History of Susanna '), 150/
639 ; 656/797
Swearing, condemned, 322, 8/629 — 59 ; an offspring of
ire or anger, 686/587 ; Exod. xx. 7, and Matt. v. 34,
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 77
quoted, 636/583 ; various kinds of, lawful and unlawful,
636—8/587—604
Swelling of heart (rejoicing in harm done), one of the
twigs of Pride, 619/391 ; denned, 620/398
Sweton. See Suetonius
Swetonius. See Suetonius
Sword which a knight receives, when dubbed, significance
of the, 603/767
Symkyn. See Simkin
Symon, St. See Simon
Symondf. See Simkin
Symonyals. See Simonials
Symonye. See Simony
Symplicius Gallus. See Gallus, Caius or Cnaeus Sulpitius
Synay. See Sinai
Synon. See Sinon
Syrak1. See Jesus, son of Sirach
Syria, a country of Asia, 184/134; 135/173, 177; 138/
279; 142/387; 143/441; 160/955; 165/1 108
Syrian, a native of Syria, 184/153 ; 148/435 > 267/3529 ;
Syrians, 142/394; 160/963
Syrian merchants described, 134/134 — 40
Tabard, the hostelry where the Canterbury Pilgrims
assemble, in Southwark, 1/2O ; 21/719
Tables Tolletanes (Tabulae Toletanse), the Alfonsine Tables
— astronomical tables prepared by order of Alfonso X. of
Castile and Leon, and published in 1252 ; first printed in
1483 ; so called from their being adapted to the city of
Toledo; 516/1273
Talbot, name of a dog, 298/4573
Tale, the denouement of a, should not be too long delayed,
490/401—5
Tarquinius, Sextus (son of Tarquinius Superbus, the last
King of Rome), the ravisher of Lucretia, 519/1407
Tarrying (tarditas) before turning to God, the sin of, 649/
718 ; comes of an often false hope of long life, 649/719
Tars, cloth of; Tartarian cloth1? 62/2 1 60. See Dante's
Inf., c. xvii. 17 ; and note thereon in Longfellow's Dante.
Tartar, adj., of Tartary, 486/266
Tartary, a country of Asia, 479/9
Tartarye. See Tartary
Tartre. See Tartar
78 INDEX OF PROPER XAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Taurus, Sign of the Zodiac, 208/4384; 351/6i3; 461/
1887
Tawr. See Taurus
Telephus, king of Mysia, who opposed the march of the
Greeks towards Troy ; was wounded by the spear of
Achilles and afterwards cured by the rust therefrom, 485/
238 — 40
Temple of Diana, representations on the walls of the, 59,
60/2051—88
Temple of Mars, described, 57/1981 — 94; symbolic
representations on the wall of the, 57 — 9/1970 — 2040
Temptation, the story of the, 612, 13/325 — 30
Tercelet. See Tiercelet
Termagaunt, the name given in the old romances to the
god of the Saracens ; represented in the Miracle Plays and
Moralities as a most violent character ; oath by, 194/2OOO
Tertulan. See Tertullian
Tertullian (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus), his
De Pallio alluded to, 868/676
Tesbee. See Thisbe.
Teuta, the martial queen of the Illyrians, mirror of wifly
chastity, 621/1453, 4
Thales, the Greek philosopher, allusion to the story told
by Plato, of his falling into a ditch while star-gazing, 99/
3457—60
Theatre, description of the, built by Theseus, 54, 5/1885
et seq.
Thebaid of Statius, referred to, 66/2294
Theban, native of Thebes, 81/2829 ; 82/2882 ; of Thebes,
620/1432, 1434; Thebane knyghtes, 72/2515, 2526;
Thebans, 54/1877 ; 78/2570; 76/2623; 86/2974
Thebes, city of ancient Greece, 28/933 ; 29/967, 983 :
30/1002, 1019; 37/1283; 39/1331; 40/1355, 1383; 52/
1793; 54/i88o; 66/2294; 76/2658; 136/200; 139/289;
354/741; 866/746; 466/1721; 580/ii6
Theft, comes of Avarice, 666/795 > °f two kinds, bodily
and spiritual, 656, 7/798 — 803
Theft and Eiot, convertible terms, 127/4395
Thelophus. See Telephus
Theobaldus, his Pliysiologm de naturis XII. animalium
alluded to, 296/4461 (See Wright's Reliq. Antiq., v. i. p.
208)
Theodomas, some famous trumpeter, in some Romantic
history, perhaps, of Thebes, 466/1720
Theodora (Theodern), Avon to wife by Algarsif, son of
Cambynskan, in Squire's Tale, 497/664
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 79
Theofraste. See Theophrastus
Theophrastus, author of Liber aureolus de nuptiis, quoted
by Jerome in his work Contra Jovinianum ; 862/671;
444/1294, 5; 445/i3io
Theseus, son of ^Egeus, and king of Athens, slayer of the
Minotaur, in Crete, and conqueror of the Amazons, 26 — 88/
859 — 3108, passim ; description of his banner, 29/975 — 80;
his love of hunting, 48, 9/1673 — 82
Thessalie. See Thessaly
Thessaly, country of ancient Greece, 277/3869
Thief; "theris no theef with-oute a lowke that helpeth
hym to wasten and to sowke," 128/4415, 4416
Thief of venison, A, can keep a forest best of any man,
305/83 — 85 ; " a trewe wight and a theef thenken nat oon,"
494/537
Thimotheum, ad, the Epistle of St. Paul to Timothy, 651/
739
Thishe, the mistress of Pyramus, 130/63 J 167/2128
Thobie. See Tobit
Thomas, Daun, name by which the Host addresses the
Monk (his name is Piers), 254/3 120
Thomas, name of the Master of the house where the
Limitour visits, in Summoner's Tale, 086/1770, 1772 ; 388/
1815, 1832; 391/i9i8, 1942; 392/1954, 1966, 1985; 393/
1992, 2000; 395/2089; 396/2107, 2112, 2119
Thomas, St., oaths by, 98/3425; 99/3461 (which St.
Thomas is uncertain)
Thomas, St., of Ind, 352/666; 392/1980; 442/1230.
See Mrs. Jameson's Sacred and Legendary Art
Thomas, St., of Kent, oath by, 95/3291
Thomas, St., the watering of. See Watering of St. Thomas,
a rill about 2 miles from the Tabard
Thopas, Sir, The Rime of, a burlesque on the popular
metrical romances of chivalry, 191 — 8/1902 — 2108
Thopas-Melibe Link ; Chaucer, stopt by the Host, in his
tale of Sir Thopas, for his "drasty rymyng," offers to
tell " a litel thyng in prose," 199, 200/2IO9 — 56
Thrace, a country east of Macedonia ; the regne of Trace,
47/1638 ; "the grete temple of Mars in Trace," 57/1972 ;
Mars addressed as its tutelary deity, 68/2374
Thraldom, comes first by sin, 652/757 ; name of, not
known till Noah (Gen. ix. 25), 653/766
Thralls are God's people, 653/y6o
Thunder; "er fiat thonder stynte, comth a reyn," 354/732
Thymalao (MSS. 3, 6, Thimalao ; MS. 5, Tymalao), son
of queen Zenobia, 267/3535. (In Boccaccio the name is-
Timolaus)
80 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Thymoth.ee. See Timotheus
Thymothee. See Timothy, St.
Tiber, river in Italy, 271/3666
Tiburce, Tiburces. See Tiburtius
Tiburtius, brother of St. Cecilia's husband, Valerian, in
Second Nun's Tale, 535/242 ; 536/26o, 265 ; 537/2/7, 289 ;
688/302, 307 ; 539/333, 348, 349, 354; 541/408
Tiercelet, the false, that loves the falcon, in the Squire's
Tale, 493/504 et seq.
Time lost, cannot be recovered, 129/2O — 28
Timotheus, a general of King Antiochus (2 Maccabees, c.
ix.), 275/3781
Timothy, St., Bishop of Ephesus, disciple of St. Paul,
590/32; 651/739
Titanos, Titan, a name for magnesia, 578/1454
Titus Livius, the Roman historian. See Livius Patavinus,
Titus.
Tobias, son of Tobit, the writer of the apocryphal book of
Tobit, 211/2307
Tobie. See Tobias
Tobit, the writer of the apocryphal book so called, 21 1/
2307; 667/906
Tolletanes (MSS. 3—6, colletanes). See Tables Tolle-
tanes
Tongue, to be guarded, 586, 7/315 — 62; "he )?at hath
mysseid . . . may by no way clepe his word agayn ; tiling
that is seyed is seyd, and forth it gooth," etc.; 587/353 —
355
Tournament, preparations for a, 71, 2/2491 — 2522 ; de
scribed, 74 — 6/2599 — 265 1
Tower (of London), alluded to as the mint where the
noble was coined, 94/3256
Trace. See Thrace
Tragedy, denned by the Monk, 255/3163 — 72; the
theme of tragedies, 286/3951 — 6
Tramyssene (MSS. 1, 2; MSS. 3—6, Tramessene), a
Moorish kingdom (or city ?) in Africa, 2/62
Treachery, portrayed on the wall of the temple of Mars,
" The tresown of the mordrynge in the bedde," 58/2OOI
Trentals, thirty masses for souls in purgatory ; their
efficacy, according to a friar, 885/1724 — 1731
Tribulation in marriage, 889/173 — 83
Trinity, or the three persons of the godhead, explained by
Saint Cecilia, 539/338—341
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 81
Troie. See Troy
Troilus, son of Priam, lover of Cressida, 494/548
Troilus and Cressida, Chaucer's, alluded to, 684/io86
Trophaeus ('Ille vates Chaldeorum Tropheus ' — Marg.
note, Ellesmere and Hengwrt MSS.) ; ''At bothe the
worldes endes, seith Trophee, In stide of boundes he
[Hercules] a pileer sette," 260/3307, 8
Trophee. See Trophseus
Trotula (" I know of no Trotula but one, whose book
Curandarum jEgritiidinum Muliebnum ante, in, et post
partum, is printed int. Medicos Antiquos, Ven. 1547."
Tyrwhitt.), alluded to, 868/677
Troy, the famous city besieged and destroyed by the
Greeks, 81/2833; 139/288; 294/4419; 484/2IO; 487/3O6 ;
494/548; 520/1446; 560/975. See Hion
Troye. See Troy
Trumpington, a parish of England, co. of Cambridge, 113/
3921
Trumpyngton. See Trumpington
Truth of things, rather found in few folk that are wise
than by great multitude of folk, 208/2259
Tullius. See Cicero
Tullius Hostilius, third king of Rome, 367/n66
Turkey (Turkye), an empire in Asia, comprising Asia
Minor and adjacent countries, 3/66
Turnus, a king of the Eutuli, the rival of ^Eneas, by
whom he was slain (Virgil's .ZEneid, lib. vii — xii), 66/1945 ;
136/201
Tybre. See Tiber
Tyburce. See Tiburtius
Tyrant, The, portrayed on the wall of the Temple of
Mars, 68/2015
Tzarev. See Sarry
Ugolino, count of Pisa, story of, in Monk's Tale, from
Dante's Inf. c. xxxiii ; 269, 70/3597 — 3652
Undevotion, or languor of soul, the sin of. 649/723
Vnhardy is vnseely, 12 1/4210
Unity, a sovereign thing, 242/2868 ; " ech thyng1 that is
oned in it selue Is moore strong than whan it is toscatered,"
392/1968, 69
Urban I. (St.), Bishop of Rome, succeeded Calixtus, A.D.
222, martyred A.D. 230 ; 533/177, i?9, 185, 189 ; 534/217 ;
538/305, 306, 309; 539/350; 546/541, 551
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82 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Valentine, St., a bishop or presbyter, beheaded A.D. 270,.
during the Claudian persecution at Rome ; seint Valeritynes
day, 684/io86
Vain-glory, one of the twigs of Pride, 619/391 ; defined,
620/405
Valeria, daughter of the emperor Dioclesian "? alluded to as
a mirror of wifly chastity, 621/1456
Valerian, the husband of St. Cecilia, in Second ]STun's
Tale, 531/129; 532/148; 533/i62; 534/203, 204, 213;
535/218, 224, 232, 235 ; 536/253,266; 688/306; 539/350;
541/408
Valerie, Valerius. See Epistola Valerii
Valerius Maximus, author of De Factis Dictisque Memora-
bilibus Libri IX. ; stories in, alluded to, 279/3910 ; 347/
460—2; 352/643—6; 367/1 165
Vengeance, the opinions of Melibeus and his wife con
cerning, 234 — 6/2711 — 40
Venice, a city of Italy, 404/5 1
Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, 3 2/ 1102, 1104;
39/1332; 55/1904; 56/1937; 64/2216; 65/2265; 68/2386;
70/2440; 71/2487; 74/2585; 76/2663; 255/3151; 297/
4532; 351/6o4,6ii,6i8; 353/708; 456/1723'; 458/1777;
463/1971; 486/272; 506/937; 516/1304: symbolic repre
sentations on the wall of the temple of, 55, 6/1918 — 46;
description of the statue of, in her temple, 56, 7/1957—66 :
Palamon's invocation to, 64, 5/2221 — 60 ; identified with
Saxon goddess Friga, and alluded to as changeable and
unlucky, 45/1536; meton., carnal intercourse, 847/464;
carnal desire, 460/1875 5 love> 304/59 ; the planet, 353/
697, 700, 704, 705 ; a name for copper, 555/829
Venyse. See Venice
Vernage, a sweet Italian wine (de agro Veronensi), 170/
1261 ; 458/1 807
Vesulus, Mount. See Monte Viso
Via Appia, the most celebrated of the ancient Roman
roads, 533/172
Vinsauf, Geoffrey de. See Geoffrey de Vinsauf
Virgil (Publius Virgilius Maro), the Eoman poet, 378/
1519
Virgin, invocations to the, 182, 8/1657 — 77; 528 — 30/
29 — 84. See Mary, the Virgin
Virginia, a beautiful Eoman virgin whom her father slew
to save from dishonour ; subject of Doctor's Tale, 303 —
11/1—286
Virginity, the Wife of Bath's opinion of, 886/62 et seq.
Virginius, Lucius, a Eoman centurion, father of Virginia,
whom he slew to save from the designs of the decemvir
CHAUCER'S CANT. TALES : ELLES. MS. 83
Appius Claudius, 303/2 ; 307/i67 ; 808/175, 180, 191, 197,
203; 310/272
Virtue of necessity, 87/3042; 495/593
Yisconti, Barnabo, Duke of Milan, story of, in Monk's
Tale, 269/3589—96
Viscounte, Barnabo. See Visconti
Vitellio (or Yitello), Polish mathematician, 13th cent.,
author of Perspective libri X., Nuremburg, 1533 ; 485/
232
Vitulon. See Vitellio
Voragine. See Jacobus de V.
Vulcanus, the god of fire and the forge ; alluded to as the
husband of Venus, 64/2222 ; 68/2389
Wades boot, 448/1424 ; Wade, according to the Edd., is
the name of a hero of the northern mythology ; but see
Notes and Queries, 2nd S., Vol. V.. p. 512, where 'Wades
boot ' is explained as " damages paid for breach of pro
mise," A. S. ' wed,' pledge, contract, and bot, compensation,
reparation
Wales, a country west of England ; " To Walys fledde the
Cristyanytee Of olde Britons," 147/544
Walter, lord of Saluzzo, husband of Griselda, 405/77 ;
416/421; 422/612; 423/631; 426/722; 434/986; 436/
1044; 438/1107, i HI
Walys. See Wales
Wanhope, or despair of God's mercy, and its remedy (St.
Augustine, Luke xv. 7, 22, xxiii. 42, 43, quoted), 647, 8/
693 — 705 ; 682, 3/1070 — 1075
War, portrayed on the wall of the temple of Mars, 58/
2002 ; its cost and consequences should be considered,
before it is engaged in, 206/2228 — 32 ; great harms and
perils in, 245/292O ; an offspring of Ire, 684/563
Ware, a town in England, 20/692 ; 120/4336
Watching, an essential of bodily penance (Matt. xxvi. 41,
quoted), 680/1048
Watering of St. Thomas, The, a rill about two miles from
the Tabard, where the Pilgrims halt and draw lots as to
which shall tell the first tale, 24/826
Wealth, vain without virtue, 498/686, 7
Wed ; " Men sholde wedden after hire estaat, ffor youthe
and elde is often at debaat," 08/3829, 30
Wedlock, a Paradise in this world, 443/1264; apostro
phized as to its blessedness, 446/1347 — 57 ; disparity in
years should be avoided in, 98/3829, 30
Weeping, moderate, should be allowed to one in grief,
202/2178 : excessive, to be condemned, 202/21 80
G 2
04 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS TO
Westlumbardye. iSee Lombardy
Wicked : " vn-to shrewes ioye it is and ese to haue hir
fehuves in peyne and disese,'' 602/746, 747 ; " of euery
ordre som shrewe is pardee," 660/995
Widow, a poor, described, 288/4011 — 36
Wife, a young, described, 93, 94/3233 — 3270; if the wife
have mastery, she is contrarious to her husband, 207/2249 '
never give wife, child, nor friend, power over thyself
(Ecclus. xxxiii. 20), 207/225O ; a chiding, angry wife, 355,
356/775 — 781 ; a good wife should not be watched, 581 /
148, 149 ; to take a wife, a glorious thing, 443/1268 et seq.;
a wife, God's gift, and a great blessing to man, 445, 446/
1311 — 1357 ; wife of the Host, described, 253, 264/3085 —
3112; 476/2426—2440; wife of the Merchant, described,
442/2i8 — 239 ; wife of Bath, description of, among the
Canterbury Pilgrims, 13, 14/445 — 4?6 ; how a wife should
be subject to her husband, 669, 676/930 — 938
Wife of Bath's Preamble ; gives her views of marriage and
virginity, and relates her own marriage experiences, etc.,
334—368/1—856
Wife of Bath's Tale ; a knight of King Arthur, for an
indignity done to a maid, is granted his life by the queen,
if he can learn within a twelvemonth and a day, " what
thyng is it that wommen moost desiren," 359 — 370/857 —
1264; " for the wyuesloue of Batbe," 440/1170; her opinion
of marriage alluded to and endorsed, 466/1685 — 1687
Wife-Friar Link, 871/1265 — 13°°- &ee Friar's Prologue
Wives, men should not tell secrets to their, 259/3282 — 4;
advice to, as to the stand they should take towards their
husbands, 440, 41/1177 — 1212 ; good, alluded to (Rebekah,
Judith, Abigail, Esther), 446/1362 — 74
Wilkyn, dim. of Will, name of a sheep, 846/432
William, the Conqueror, 10/324
Wine, lechery in, 318/484; a lecherous thing, 820/549;
causes loss of mind and limbs, 394/2O54, 55 ; causes to do
or say amiss, 602/783
Wisdom ; "of alle men his wysdoni is the hyeste that
rekketh neuere who hath the world in hande," 343/326.
327
Wise man, excessive grief does not become a, 202/2171
et seq. ; "sende the wise and sey no thyng," 108/3598
Witch of Endor, the story of the, in 1 Sam. xxviii.
alluded to, 378/1 510
Witness, false, comes of Avarice, 656/795 ; in what it
consists, 606/796, 797
Woe, invoked as ever the successor of worldly bliss, 143/
421 — 424, 426, 427 ; causeth often to do or say amiss, 502/
782 ; u ioye after wo, and wo after gladnesse," 81/2841
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Woman, mankind lost through, 106/842, 3 : man's joy
and all his bliss, the cock's translation of Mulier est
hominis confusio, in Nun's Priest's Tale, 292/4356 ; the
bad consequences of woman's counsels, 206/4446 — 56 ; a
wise woman will strive to get love, 840/209. 10 ; man
more reasonable than woman, 346/441 ; the loss of all
mankind, 354/72O ; a chiding woman, 866/776, 7 ; the
cruelty of an angry woman, 393/2OOI — 3 ; has more
humility and fidelity than man, 430/936 — 8 ; must needs
speak, or swell till her heart break, 472/2305, 6; woman
taken in adultery (John viii. 3), comment on the story of
the, 205/2223
"Women, their sorrows from the loss of husbands, SO, 8 1/
2822 — 26 ; born to be under man's governance, 138/286, 7 ;
naturally desire six things in regard to their husbands,
173/1363 — 67; as counsellors, and dame Prudence's defence
of, 207 — 11/2245 — 2301 ; what they desire, 286/4103 — 7 ;
Paul's instruction as to the apparel of, 343/342 — 5 ; the
nature of their love, 344/371—8; natural gifts of, 345/
401, 2; Wife of Bath's opinion of, 345/414; their con
trariness, 348/515 — 24; what they most love, 861/925 —
48 ; desire sovereignty, 864/1038 — -41 ; their sleights and
subtleties, 476/2421 — 25 ; naturally desire liberty, 501/
768; examples of virtuous and chaste women, 518 — 21/
1368—1456
Won, How some folks are, 97/3381, 3382
Wonder, the result of ignorance, 486/258 — 60
Woodnesse. See Madness
Words, " The wordes moote be cosyn to the dede," 21/742 ;
"The word moot nede accorde with the dede," 583/2o3
World, what is this? 79/2777 ; but a thoroughfare full of
wo, 81/2847
Worldly joy cannot last, 460/2055 ; 166/1133, 34
Worldly sorrow, the sin of (2 Cor. vii. 10, quoted), 649/
725 ; worketh the death of soul arid body, 649/726, 7
Wrongs, should he wreaked while they are fresh (strike
while the iron's hot), advice of the young folk to Melibeus,
205/2226 ; "on euery wrong a man may nat be wreken,"
502/784
Xanthippe, wife of Socrates ; his patient submission to
her indignities, 864/727 — 32
Xantippa. See Xanthippe
Yeoman, description of the, among the Canterbury Pil
grims, 4/ioi — 117
Yeoman, a, described, 874/1380 — 83
Yeoman attending the Canon who joins the Pilgrims on
their way ; his speeches to them, 648/587 — 93 ; 599 — 614,
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617; 549/618—626, 640—651: 550/657—62, 665—83;
551/703 — 19 ; his Preamble, 552—59/720 — 971 ; see Canon's
Yeoman's Preamble; his Tale, 560 — 71/972 — 1481; see
Canon's Yeoman's Tale
Ylion. See II ion
Ynde. See Ind, India
Yorkshire, a county of England, 885/1709
Young people, the counsel of, to be eschewed, 217/2389
Youthe and elde is often at debaat, 93/3830
Ypermystra. See Hypermnestra
Ypocras. See Hippocras and Hippocrates
Ypolita. See Hippolyta
Ypotis, Ypotys, Biblical Romance of, alluded to, 197/2o88
Ypres, a town in Belgium, noted for its cloth-making, 13/
448
Ysaak. See Isaac
Ysaye. See Isaiah
Ysidre, Seint. See Isidore of Seville
Ytaille. See Italy
Ymeneus. See Hymen
Yue, Yve, Seint. See Ive
Zakarie. See Zechariah
Zanzis (MSS. 3, 6, ^epherus ; 4, ^ephirus ; 5 Zephirus). See
Zeuxis
Zechariah, the Hebrew Prophet, 623/434
Zenobia, queen of Palmyra ; story of, in Monk's Tale,
264—268/3437-3564
Zeuxis, the Greek painter, of Heraclea (B.C. 424 — 400),
303/16
Zodiac, signs of the. See Aries and Earn, Taurus, Gemini,
Cancer, Leo and Lion, Capricorn. Pisces and Fish, Libra.
87
ADDITION TO THE INDEX.
PENITENCE, A Treatise on; the Parson's Tale, 592 — 685/
75 — 1092; a full noble way to Christ, 593/8o; denned by
St. Ambrose, 594/84 ; by a certain doctor, 594/85 ; by the
parson, 594/86 ; three actions of penitence, 1. baptism after
. sin, 594/96 ; 2. not to do deadly sin after baptism, 595/99 ;
3. not to fall into venial sins after baptism, 595/IOO; three
species of penitence, 1. solemn (to be put out of Holy
Church in Lent, or to do open penance), 2. common (to
go naked on pilgrimages, or barefoot), 3. private (what
men do for private sins for which they shrive them privily),
595/1 02 -6 ; three essentials of penitence, contrition of
heart, confession of mouth, and satisfaction, 595/lo8 ;
penitence likened to a tree, 596/1 12 ; of which contrition
is the root, from which springeth a stalk that beareth
branches and leaves of confession, and fruit of satisfaction,
596/113, 14; penitence the tree of life, 596/127; four
things to be understood about contrition, 1. what it is,
2. the causes that move a man thereto, 3. how to be
contrite, 4. what it availeth to the soul, 597/128 ; the six
causes that ought to move a man to contrition, 1. remem
brance of sin ; 2. whoso sins, is the thrall of sin ; 3. dread
of the day of doom, and the pains of hell, which are
described ; 4. the sorrowful remembrance of the good left
undone, and the loss of the good works done ere falling
into sin or while in sin ; 5. remembrance of Christ's suffer
ings for our sins (St. Bernard, et al., quoted) ; 6. the hope
•of three things : forgiveness of sin, the gift of grace to do
well, and the glory of heaven, 597 — 609/133 — 29J '•> a man's
contrition must be universal and total : for sins of thought,
for whatever he hath desired against the law of God, for
his wicked words as well as for his wicked deeds (St.
Augustine quoted), 610-611/292 — 307 ; wherein availeth
contrition : it sometimes delivereth a man from sin, de-
stroyeth the prison of hell, cleanseth the soul, maketh him
that was son of wrath to be son of grace, 61 1-6 12/308 —
315 ; confession, the second essential of penitence ; defined,
612/318 — 320; whence sins spring (St. Paul quoted), 612/
322; sin came through Adam, 612/323; the story of the
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temptation, 612-13/325 — 330; all are born sons of wrath,
and damnation everlasting, unless rescued by baptism, 613/
335 ; concupiscence, the nourishing and occasion of sin,
614/338; St. Paul quoted ; his own temptation, 614/342 —
4 ; St. Jerome's temptation, 614-15/345, 6 ; St. James the
Apostle and St. John the Evangelist quoted, 616/348, 9 ;
how sins grow (Moses quoted), 615-16/35O — 7; the two
kinds of sin, venial and deadly, defined ; venial sins give rise
to deadly ones ; " manye smale maken a greet ; " a ship may
be sunk by small drops of water entering through a little
crevice, as well as by great waves ; 616/358—367 : deadly
sin defined by St. Augustine, 617/368 ; divers small sins
specified, on the authority of St. Augustine, 617, 18/371 —
381 ; no earthly man can eschew all venial sins ; but they
can be restrained, by love to Christ, by prayers, confession,
good works, receiving the sacrament, holy water, almsdeed,.
etc., 618/382 — 6 ; the seven deadly sins, and their depend
encies and species : Pride, 619 — 626/387—475 ; its remedy,
626-7/476—483; Envy, 627—630/484—514; its remedy,
630-31/515—531 ; Ire or Anger, 631—643/533—653; its
remedy, 643—6/654—676; Accidie or Sloth, 645—9/677—
727; its remedy, 650-51/728 — 738; Avarice, or Covetous-
ness, 651—657/739 — 803; its remedy, 657 — 68/804 — 817;
Gluttony, 668-69/818—830; its remedy, 660/831—5;
Lechery, 660—8/836—914; its remedy, 668—672/915—
956
Pride, its twigs : Disobedience, Boasting, Hypocrisy,
Despite, Arrogance, Impudence, Swelling of Heart (re
joicing in harm done), Insolence, Elation, Impatience,
Contumacy, Presumption, Irreverence, Pertinacity (a de
fending of follies), Vain-glory, Jangling (speaking too
much before folk, clacking as a mill, and accounting not
what others say), etc., 619-20/39O — 406, other private
kinds of pride, 620/407, 8; two manners of pride: one
within the heart, the other without, and the sign of the
other, '• as the gaye leefsel atte Taue?-ne is signe of the
wyn that is in the Celer," 620-21 /4O9 — 411 ; outside pride;
shown in speech and countenance, in superfluous and ex
pensive clothing (St. Gregory quoted), 621 — 22/412-421 ;
in disgraceful scantiness of clothing, 622/422 — 429 ; in
the outrageous array of women, 622/430 ; in horses,
grooms, curious harness, saddles, etc. (Zechariah x. 5
quoted), 622-23/432 — 6 ; in maintaining a great household,
623/437—441 ; in table, not inviting the poor, in excess of
meats and drinks, in great costliness of service, in min
strelsy, 624/444 — 447 ; the sources of pride : goods of
nature, of fortune, of grace, 624/450 — 55 ; the folly of
such pride, 626/457 — 463 ; the general signs of gentleness
(Seneca quoted ; bees choose for their king one that hath
no sting), 626/464 — 469; popular praise sometimes very
false and brittle, 626/473; Remedy against Pride: humility
or meekness, 1. of heart. 2. of mouth, 3. of works, G26-27/
476—483
Envy, defined by the Philosopher and St. Augustine,.
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627/484 ; comes from malice, 627/485 ; two kinds of
malice: 1. hardness of heart, 2. opposition to known
truth, 627/486, 7 ; two kinds of envy: 1. sorrow of other
man's goodness and prosperity, 2. joy of other man's
harm, 628/491, 2: whence comes backbiting or detraction
(five kinds), 628/493 — 8 ; then grudging or murmuring,
against God and man, 628, 9/499—501 ; grudging from
avarice (Judas Iscariot cited as example), murmuring from
pride, envy, 629/5O2 — 5 ; murmuring among servants, 629/
506 — 8 ; grudging from ire or privy hate, 629/509 ; then
come bitterness of heart, discord, scorning, accusing,
malignity, 629-30/5 10 — 14. Remedy against Envy: 1.
love of God and neighbour, 680/515, 16 ; how a man shall
love his neighbour, 680/517 — 21 ; how in neighbour is
included one's enemy, 630-31/521 — 23 ; how a man shall
do three deeds of love against three deeds of hate (Matt,
v. 44 quoted), 681/524 — 6 ; love, the medicine that casts
out the venom of envy from man's heart, 681/531
Anger, or Ire, 631 — £8/533 — 653 ; the sin defined by
St. Augustine ; by the Philosopher ; 682/535-6 ; is of two-
kinds: good and wicked, 682/538; good, when directed
against wrong-doing (Ps. iv. 5 quoted), 682/539, 40; wicked
ire, of two kinds : sudden, without consent of reason (venial
sin), 682/541, 2; and premeditated (deadly sin, and the
devil's furnace), 682/543 — 6 ; three shrews that forge in
this furnace: Pride, Envy, and Contumely, 688/554—6;
the offsprings of ire : hate, war, and wrong, and man
slaughter spiritual and bodily, 684/562 — 4; six kinds of
spiritual manslaughter (but three given), 1. by hate (1 John
iii. 15 quoted), 2. by backbiting, 3. in giving wicked
counsel, by fraud (Prov. iii. 27, 28 quoted), 684/562 — 9 ;
bodily manslaughter : slaying with the tongue, giving order
or counsel to slay a man, 684/570 ; manslaughter in deed,
four kinds (seven named), 1. by law, as when a judge con
demns a man to death ; 2. in self-defence ; 3. by accident
(shooting an arrow or casting a stone); 4. when a woman
by negligence overlies her child ; 5. by preventing con
ception, inducing abortion, etc.; 6. when a woman kills her
child after birth, for shame ; 7. when a man by lechery or
blows destroys a foetus, 686/571 — 9 ; many more sins, in
word, thought, or deed that come from ire or anger, 635 — •
43/58o — 653; 1. imputing to God one's own guilt, or de
spising God and his saints, as hazarders do, or treating
irreverently the sacrament of the altar ; 2. attry anger,
when one is admonished in his shrift to abandon his sins,
and makes angry false excuses ; 3. swearing (Exod. xx.
7, Matt. v. 34 quoted), and thus dismembering Christ ;
various kinds of swearing, lawful and unlawful, enumerated;
4. lying (various kinds enumerated) ; 5. flattery ; how
flatterers are the devil's nurses, his enchanters, and chap
lains ; 6. cursing that comes of irous heart (simile of a
bird returning 10 its nest) ; 7. chiding and Reproach ;
" they unsew the seams of friendship in a man's heart ; "
they spring from evil heart (Matt. xii. 34, Prov. xv. 4,
xvii. 1, xxvii. 15, St. Augustine, 2 Tim. ii. 24, Coloss.
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iii. 18 quoted) ; 8. scorning (scorners compared to the foul
toad); 9. giving wicked counsel (as Ahithophel to Absalom,
2 Sam. xvii.); 10. sowing and making discord (John xvii.
21) ; 11. double tongue ; 12. betraying of counsel ; 13.
menace ; 14. idle words ; 15. jangling (Eccles. v. 2 and
a Philosopher quoted) ; 16. japing ; japers are the devil's
apes (Epb.es. v. 4 quoted), 635 — 43/580 — 653. Remedy
<tgainst Anger, Mansuetude, that is, debonairity and
patience, or sufferance (forbearance), 643/654 ; the actions
of these virtues (St. Jerome and the Philosopher, and
Matt. v. 9 quoted), 643/655 ; four kinds of grievances
and their remedies: 1. wicked words, 2. damage or loss
of property, 3. harm of body, 4. excessive labour — all of
which Christ endured patiently, and we should follow his
example, 644/663 — 9 ; story of a philosopher who had lost
his patience, and was rebuked by a child he was about
to punish, 644/67O — 73 ; obedience comes of patience ;
when obedience is perfect, 645/674 — 76
Accidie or Sloth, the sin of, 645 — 9/677 — 727 5 its action
(St. Augustine and Eccles. ix. 10 quoted), 645/677 — 80 ;
an enemy to the three states of man : 1. innocence, 2.
prayer, 3. grace, 645-6/68i — 4; also, to one's livelihood,
646/685 ; like to the state of those in hell, 646/686 ; its
consequences : 1. sloth (Prov. xxi. 25 quoted), and its
remedy (St. Bernard quoted) ; 2. dread to begin good
works (St. Gregory quoted) ; 3. wanhope, or despair of
God's mercy (St. Augustine, Luke xv. 7, 22, xxiii. 42,
43 quoted) ; 4. somnolence (Prov. viii. 17 quoted) ; 5.
negligence, and 6. recklessness ; the remedy for these two
sins ; 7. idleness, the gate of all harms ; an idle man like
to a place without walls — the devils may enter on every
side ; 8. tarditas, as when a man tarries too much ere he
will turn to God ; 9. lachesse, as when one begins any
good work and gives it up for a slight cause ; 10. coldness,
that freezes all the heart of a man ; 11. undevotion, or
languor of soul ; 12. worldly sorrow '(2 Cor. vii. 10) ;
646 — 9/688 — 727. Remedy against Accidie: fortitude or
strength, 650/728 — 30; many kinds of fortitude: 1. mag
nanimity, or greatness of spirit ; 2. faith and hope in God
and in his saints ; 3. assurance ; 4. magnificence, the
doing of great works of goodness ; 5. constancy, or sta
bility of spirit, 650/731 — 7
Avarice and Covetousness, 651 — 7/739 — 803 ; the root of
all harms (1 Tim. vi. 10), 651/739; St. Augustine's defini
tion of, 651/741 ; difference between Avarice and Covet
ousness (Ephes. v. 5 quoted), 651/744—8 ; between an
idolater and an avaricious man (Exod. x^. 3, 4 quoted),
652/749 — 51 ! °^ covetousness come hard and oppressive
lordships and stewardships (St. Augustine, De Civitate,
lib. ix., Gen. ix. 25 — 27). 652/752 — 5 ; thraldom comes
first by sin, 652/757 ; Seneca quoted, 653/759 ; thralls are
God's people, 653//6o ; lords and churls have a common
origin and destiny, 653/76i, 2 ; every sinful man is a churl
to sin ; lords should have the love rather than the dread
of their churls, 663/763 ; there must be high and low, but
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extortions from underlings are to be condemned, 668/764 ;
the name of thraldom not known till Noah (Gen. ix 25),
668/766 ; of those that pillage and do extortions in Holy
Church ; the significance of the sword a knight receives
when dubbed ; those that strangle the sheep of Christ are
the devil's wolves, according to St. Augustine, 668/767 — 9 ;
why sovereignty was ordained, 664/744 ; lords that are
like wolves, shall receive by the same measure as they
have measured to the poor (Matt. vii. 1), 664/755 — 6; of
deceit between merchant and merchant ; merchandise,
bodily and spiritual, 654/777 ; bodily merchandise, when
lawful and when cursed and damnable, 664/778 — 80 ;
spiritual merchandise, or simony, defined, 664/781, 2 ;
simony named from Simon Magus (Acts viii. 18 — 23), 655/
783 ; different kinds of simony, 666/784—7 ; St. Damasus
quoted, 666/788 . hasardry, or games of chance, 666/793, 4 ;
other offspring of Avarice : lying, theft, false witness, false
oaths, and sacrilege, 666-7/795 — 803. Remedy against
Avarice: misericord (mercy, compassion) and pity, largely
taken; and why? kinds of misericord, 667/804 — IO5
reasonable largesse (liberality), 668/811, 12; but one
should avoid foolish and vain liberality, 668/813 — 17
Gluttony, 658-9/8 1 8— 30; defined, 668/818; corrupted
all the world (Phiiippians iii. 18, 19 quoted), 658 — 9/819-
20 ; of the kinds of gluttony : 1. drunkenness, "the horrible
sepulture of man's reason," 2. troubled spirit, resulting
therefrom, 3. voracious eating, 4. distempered bodily
humours from excessive eating, 5. forgetf ulness from too
much drinking, 669/822—27 ; or, according to St. Gregory,
1. eating before proper time, 2. getting too delicate food or
drink, 3. taking too much, 4. making great ado in prepara
tion of food, 5. eating too greedily; these are the five
fingers of the devil's hand, 659/828 — 30. Remedy against
Gluttony : abstinence ; which is not meritorious if practised
only for health of body, and not for virtue (St. Augustine
quoted), 660/831, 2; the fellows of abstinence: 1. temper
ance, that observes a mean. 2. shame, 3. sufh'sance, that
avoids rich meats ;>nd drinks, 4. measure, or moderation,
5. soberness, 6. sparing, not sitting long and comfortably
at table, 660/833—35
Lechery (luxuria), 660 — 68/836 — 914 ; the punishments
of this sin, in the old law, 660/838 ; the world drowned
therefor, and five cities burnt, 660/839 5 adultery, and the
punishment of adulterers (Rev. xxi. 8 quoted), 661/840-41 ;
a horrible thing to break the sacrament of marriage (Matt,
xix. 5 quoted); what the sacrament betokens, 661/842-3
(Exod. xx. 17, St. Augustine, Matt. v. 28 quoted) ; the
consequences of the sin ; 661/844 — 5 1 ; the five fingers of
the devil's other hand : 1. foolish looking (compared to the
basilisk) ; 2. wicked touching (Prov. vi. 27 — 29, Eccles.
xii. 13, xiii. 1 quoted) ; 3. foul words ; 4. kissing ; how a
man should love his wife ; 5. the stinking deed of lechery,
662-3/852 — 62; to what end the fiend uses his five fingers of
lechery, 668/863, 4; different kinds of lechery: fornication
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between unmarried people (Gal. v. 19 — 21) ; taking a maid's
maidenhead ; the consequences, 668/865 — 72 5 adultery
defined, 664/8/4; the many sins it includes: breaking
of faith; stealing a woman's body from her husband
and her soul from Christ (story of Joseph and Potiphar's
wife, Gen. xxxix. 7 — 9), breaking God's commandment
and defouling Christ^ 664/875 — 84 ; of whoremongers
and harlots, 666/885, 6 ; adultery, set in the decalogue
between theft and murder, as it partakes of both sins, 665/
887 — 9 ; the sin most heinous when committed by those in
holy orders who are under the vow of chastity, 666/891 — 4 ;
such are the sons of Belial ; are like a free bull in a field ;
will have the raw flesh of folk's wives and daughters, 666/
897 — 901 ; adultery may be between man and wife, when
they copulate for fleshly delight only, 667/904 — 6 ; copula
tion with kinsfolk, spiritual (god-children) or fleshly (blood
relations) ; the abominable unmentionable sin ; pollution,
from bodily languor, infirmity, surfeit of meat and drink,
evil thoughts ; 667/907 — 14. Remedy against Lechery .-
668 — 72/915 — 57; chastity and continence, 1. in marriage,
668/916; marriage a great sacrament, established by God;
true effect of marriage ; marriage figured between Christ
and Holy Church, 668/918 — 22 ; how a man should bear
him towards his wife (Ephes. v. 25 quoted), 669/925 — 29;
how a wife should be subject to her husband (1 Pet. iii.
1 — 7, St. Jerome and St. Gregory quoted), 669, 70/
93° — 38; a man and wife may copulate for three things:
1. begetting of children, 2. to pay, each to other, the debt
of their bodies, 3. to avoid lechery ; 670/939 — 42 ; unre
strained indulgence for mere sensual delight is deadly sin,
670/943 ; 2. chastity in widowhood, 671/944 — 47 ; 3. in
virginity, 671/948 — 50 ; other remedies against lechery ;
avoiding such things as give occasion thereto, as ease,
eating and drinking, lying too long abed, the company of
tempters, 671/951—53 ; let no man trust in his own per
fection, unless he be stronger than Samson, holier than
Daniel, wiser than Solomon, 672/955. What sin is, accord
ing to St. Augustine, 672/959 ; circumstances that aggravate
sins : 1. who it is that sins ; 2. the nature of sin, and
extent of its continuance ; 3. the place (house, field, church,
church-yard, etc.) ; 4. by what enticement or fellowship ;
5. the number of times it was committed ; 6. by what
temptation, and whether the temptation rested with the
wrong-doer or came from others ; 7. how it was done and
all the accompanying circumstances, 672 — 4/g6o — 78
Confession, the second essential of penitence ; conditions
of a true and profitable confession : 1. sorrowful bitterness
of heart (Is. ssxviii. 15 quoted), 674/982-3 ; of which there
are five signs : shamefastness (St. Augustine quoted, and the
Publican instanced) ; humility (1 Pet. v. C) in heart and
outward sign ; the slirift should be full of tears (St. Peter
instanced, Matt. xxvi. 75); no standing back for shame
(the Magdalen, Luke vii. 37) ; obedience to the penanc.e
imposed, 674. 6/984 — 97 ; 2. true confession must be
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attended to speedily, and must include four things : the
shrift must be well considered, the number, greatness, and
duration of the sins well comprehended, the sinner must
be contrite, and steadfastly resolve to shun occasions of
sin, 675-6/998 — 1005; 3. One must shrive him of all his
sins, to one man, 676/ioo6. True shrift involves certain
conditions: it must be of free will, and not constrained;
both the sinner arid the priest must be truly in the faith of
Holy Church ; one must not despair of Christ's mercy ;
must accuse himself of his own trespass, and not another ;
must not, for humility's sake, confess to sins not committed
(St. Augustine quoted) ; must confess by his own mouth,
and not by letter ; must not paint confession with fair
words, but speak plainly, however foul and horrible the
sin ; must shrive him to a discreet priest, and not for vain
glory, but for the fear of Christ, and health of the soul ;
must not run to a priest to tell him lightly his sin, 677-
8/1012 — 24; to be shriven more than once for the same
sin, the greater merit (St. Augustine quoted) ; one should
be houseled at least once a year, 678/1026-27
Satisfaction, the third essential of Penitence, 679 — 83/
1029 — 80; consists most generally in alms and bodily
penance, 679/IO29 ; three kinds of alms : contrition of heart ;
pity for one's neighbour's defaults; giving good spiritual
counsel, and providing for the wants of the body (food,
clothing, shelter, etc.), 679/1030 — 33; alms should be done
timely, and in secret, if possible, 679/1034
Bodily Penance consists, 1. in prayers ; prayers denned ;
the pater noster characterized ; it comprises in itself all
good prayers; how it must be said, 679, 86/1038 — 44;
2. in watching (Matt. xxvi. 41) ; fasting (?) consists in three
things : forbearing meat and drink, worldly jollity, deadly
sin, 680-81/1048-49; 3. fasting; to which appertain four
things : liberality to the poor, spiritual gladness of heart
at fasting, seasonable and moderate eafing, 681/1050-51 ;
virtuous, teachings, or discipline, by word, writing, or
example ; cheerful wearing of hair shirts, etc. (Col. iii. 12) ;
knocking the breast, scourging, kneelings, tribulations,
patient endurance of maladies and losses, 681/1052 — 56;
things that disturb penance : dread, shame, hope, and wan-
hope or despair, 681/1057 ; the remedies against these,
682-3/1059—75; the fruit of penance, 683/1076—80; the
author takes his leave, and asks mercy and forgiveness
of his sins, especially of those committed in his books,
684-5/io8i—92
People, the fickleness and unreliableness of the, 434-S5/
995 — looi
Perce. See Persia
Percyuerl, Sire. See Perceval
94 INDEX : SCRIPTURAL QUOTATIONS, ETC.
SCEIPTURAL QUOTATIONS AND ALLUSIONS.
Genesis i. 28: 335/28; ii. 18: 211/2294; iv. 19: 335/54; *ix.
33: 318/485—487; xxvii.: 446/1363—1365; xxvii.: 210/
2283
Exodus xiv.: 145/489,490; xx. 7: 323/642; xxxiv. 28: 390/
1885
Leviticus*. 9: 390/1895: xix. 32: 326/744
Judges xvi. 19 — 21: 354/721 — 723
1 Samuel xxv. 2—34: 446/1369—1371; xxv. 2—35: 210/
2290; xxviii. 7 — 25: 878/1510
1 Kings xi. 12: 472/23O1 ; xix. 8: 390/1890
Job i. 21: 203/2190; i. 21: 430/871, 872; ii. 6: 377/1490:
xii. 12: 214/2354
Jeremiah iv. 2: 328/635
Judges xi. 29— 40: 309,310/240—244; xiii. 4: 820/555
Psalms i. 1 : 217/2388; viii. 1, 2 : 182/1643, 1644; x. 9 : 382f
1657, 1658 ; xxxiv. 14 : 243/2882, 2883 ; xxxviii. 17 : 240/
2820, 2821 : cxxvii. 1: 228/2494; cxxxiii. 1 — 3: 245/2925
Proverbs xi. 14: 215/2361; xii. 11: 288/2780; xii. 5: 216/
2387; xiv. 13: 143/421—424; xiv. 20, xv. 15, xix. 7: 132/
115 — 121; xv. 16: 210/2818,2819; xvi. 32: 234/27o6 ;
xvi. 24: 211/2303; xvi. 7 : 244/2909, 2910; xvii. 22: 203/
2185; xviii. 24: 214/2349; xix. 15: 288/2779; xx. 3:
232/2675 ; xi. 22, xxi. 9, 19: 355, 856/775—785 ; xxi. 19 :
210/2277; xxi. 23: 686/315; xxii. 24: 395/2O86, 2087;
xxii. 1: 240/2828; xxiii. 9: 206/2237; xxv. 16: 229/26o6;
xxvi. 17: 235/2732; xxvii. 9: 214/2348; xxviii. 23: 216]
2367; xxviii. 14: 228/2507, 2508; xxviii. 23: 244/2894,
2895 ; xxviii. 14 : 243/2886 ; xxiii. 5, xxviii. 22 : 237/2768,
2769 ; xxix. 5: 215/2368; xxxi. 4, 5: 821/584
Ecclesiastes iii. L: 403/6; vii. 28: 471/2247, 2248; vii. 28:
207/2247; x. 19: 286/2740; xi. 8: 148/421—424
Song of Solomon ii. 10, 11 : 468/2138 — 2140
Daniel vi. 16 et seg. : 144, 145/473 — 476
Jonah i. 12—17, ii. 1—10 : 145/486, 487
Tobitiv. 19: 211/2308
Judith viii. — xiii. : 210/2289 ; xiii. : 159/939 > x"i- 8 : 446/1368
Ecdesiasticus ii. 14: 235/2729; iv. 30: 898/1989; vi. 5:
245/2930; vi. 6: 214/2357; vi. 14: 214/2351; viii. 17:
216/2363; xi. 29: 125/4331; xii. 10: 216/2376; xix. 8:
213/2331 ; xxii. 6: 206/2235 ; xxv. 25: 352/653 5 xxx- 23:
203/2186; xxxiii. 18: 246/2944—2946; xxxiii. 19: 207/
2250; xl. 28: 132/114; xii. 12: 240/2380
1 Maccabees iii. 18, 19: 241, 242/2851—2853
Matthew v. 3: 891/1923; v.9: 242/2870; v. 34: 828/634;
vii. 3: 112/3919, 3920; xiv. 1—11: 819/490, 491; xiv.
15—21: 145/502—504; xix. 3: 886/74; xix- 5: 335/31 ;
xix. 17: 209/2269; xix. 21: 337/io8— no xxiii. 27 : 493/
518, 519
Mark i. 7: 494/555 ; vi. 37—44: 888/145, 146 j xvi. 9 : 209/
2265
CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES : ELLESMERE MS. 95-
Lukev. 10: 088/1820; x. 7: 892/1973; x. 18: 141/366
John ii. 1—11: 334/n ; iv. 18: 334/17—19: viii. 3: 205/
2223: xi. 35: 202/2177; xii. 6: 378/1351
Roman* vii. 3: 885/49; xi. 33: 228/2596: xii. 15: 202/2179;
xii. 17: 222/2482; xii. 19: 281/2650; xiii. 4: 280/2630,.
2631 ; xiii. 12: 540/385
1 Corinthians vi. 13: 319/522, 523; vii. 6: 886/65; v»- 9:
335/52; x. 13: 382/i66i
2 Corinthians i. 12: 240/2824; xi. 14: 876/1465; iii. 6:
387/1794; iv. 17: 284/2700
Epkesians v. 18: 818/484; v. 22—33: 888/160; v. 25,28,
29: 447/1384
Philippiansni. 18, 19: 820/530—533
1 Timothy ii. 9 : 848/341—345 ; iv. 7 : 590/33, 34 : v. 6 : 320/
547, 548; vi. 8: 390/iSSi ; vi. 10: 212/2320; vi. 10: 250/
2 Timothy iii. 16: 800/4631, 4632; ir. 7: 541/387. 388
James i. 4: 284/2707; i. 5: 212/2309; i. 13: 489/1153; >• 22i
391/1937; ii. 13: 251/3059; ii. 17: 529/64
1 Peter ii. 21—23 : 288/2692—2694
1 John i. 9 : 252/3075—3077
Revelations vii. 1— 3 : 145/491—494; xii.: 141/366
97
CHAUCER'S
4tompris<rns anft j&imiUs,
iraberlrs, Items, #c.,
"CANTERBURY TALES,"
COLLECTED BY
PROF. HIRAM CORSON, LL.D.,
CORNELL UNIVERSITY.
I. COMPARISONS AND SIMILES.
N.B. — The references are to the paging and lines of the Six-Text edition.
And of his port as meeke as is a mayde, 8/69
"With lokkes crulle as they were leyd in presse, 3/8 1
Ernbrouded was he, as it were a meede
Al ful of fresshe floures whyte and reede, 8/89, 90
He was as fressh as in [is, 2 — 6] the Monthe of May, 8/92
He slepte namoore than dooth a nygtltyngale, 8/98
hir eyen greye as glas, 8/152
And whan he rood, men myghte his brydel heere
Gynglen in a whistlynge wynd als cleere
And eek1 as loude as dooth j)e chapel belle, 5/169 — I7I
His heed was balled J?at shoon as any glas,
And eek his face as it hadde been enoynt, 6/198, 199
Hise eyen stepe and rollynge in his heed,
That stemed as a forneys of a leed, 6/201, 202
He was nat pale as a forpyned goosfr, 6/205
His palfrey was as broun as is a berye, 6/207
His nekke whi^ was as the flour delys,
Ther to he strong1 was as a Champion), 7/238, 239
And rage he koude as it were righ~t a whelpe 8/257
ELLES. INDEX H
98 COMPARISONS AXU SIMILES IX
Of double worsteds was his semycope
That rounded as a belle out of the presse, 8/262, 263
Hise eyen twynkled in his heed arygfit1
As doon the sterres in the frosty nyglit1, 8/267, 2^8
And leene was his hors as is a rake, 9/287
Whit was his heed as is a dayesye, 10/332
An Anlaas and a gipser al of silk1
Heeng at his girdel, whit as morne Milk, 11/357, 358
His berd as any so we or fox was reed,
And ther to brood as though it were a spade, 16/552, 553,
Vp on the eope right of his nose he hade
A werte, and ther on stood a toft of herys
Reed as the brustles of a sowes erys, 16/554 — 556
His mouth as greet was as a greet forneys, 16/559
His tope was doked lyk a preest biforn,
fful longe were his legges and ful lene,
Ylyk a staf, ther was no calf ysene, 17/590 — 592
They were adrad of hym as of the deeth, 18/605
Tukked he was as is a frere aboute, 18/621
As hoot he was and lecherous as a spar we, 18/626
Thanne wolde he speke and crie as he were wood, 18/636
Swiche glarynge eyen hadde he as an hare, 20/684
A voys he hadde as smal as hath a goot, 20/688
ffor trewely conforf ne myrthe is noon
To ride by the weye doumb as the stoon, 22/773, 774
Enielye fat fairer was to sene
Than is the lylie vpon his stalke grene
And fressfier than the May with floures newe, 81/1035 —
1037
"We stryuen as dide the houndes for the boon,
They foughte al day and yet hir part was noon,
Ther cam a kyte whil they weren so wrothe
And baar awey the boon bitwixe hem bothe, 34, 35/1177 —
1180
dronke is as a Mous, 37/i26i
he lyk was to biholde
The Boxtree or the Asshen dede and colde, 38/1301, 1302
pale as Assfien colde, 40/1364
a Courser startlynge as the fir, 44/1502
Now vp, now doun, as boket1 in a welle, 45/1533
CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY . TALES : ELLESMERB MS. 99
As fiers as leon), 46/1598
To chaungen gan the colour in hir face,
Right as the hunters in the regne of Trace,
That stondeth at the gappe with the spere,
Whan hunted is the leon) and the here,
And hereth hym come russhyng1 in the greues
And breketh bothe bowes and the leues,
And thynketh " heere cometh my mortal enemy,
With oute faile he moot be deed or I ;
tfor outher I moot sleen hym at the gappe,
Or he moot sleen me if fat me myshappe," 47, 48/1637 —
1646
Thou mygfitest wene that this Palamon
In his fightyng1 were [as] a wood leon),
And as a crueel Tigre was Arcite ;
As wilde bores gonne they to smyte,
That frothen whit as foom, for Ire wood, 48/1655 — -l^59
He was war of Arcite and Palamon),
(That foughten breme as it were bores two :)
The brighte swerdes wenten to and fro
So hidously, that with the leeste strook1
It semed as it wolde fille an ook, 49/1698 — 1702
[to fighten] As it were in a lystes roially, 50/1713
She woof namoore of al this hoote fare,
By god, than woot a Cokkow of an hare, 52/1809, 1810
And lik a grifphon, looked he aboute, 61/2133
Cam ridynge lyk1 the god of Armes Mars, 62/2159
And as a leon) he his lookyng1 caste, 62/2171
His voys was as a trompe thondrynge, 62/2174
An Egle tame as any lilye whytt, 68/2178
As fayn as fowel is of the brighte sonne, 70/2437
Arrayed right as he were a god in Trone, 72/2529
Ther nas no Tygre in the vale of Galgopheye,
Whan J)at hir whelpe is stole, whan it is lite.
So crueel on the hunte, as is Arcite,
ffor lelous herte, vpon- this Palamon),
Ne in Belmarye, ther nys so fel leon)
That hunted is, or for his hunger wood,
~Ne of his praye desire th so the blood,
As Palamon to sleen his foo Arcite, 76/2626 — 2633
So greet a wepyng1 was ther noon certayn
Whan Ector was ybrognt', al fressh" yslayn,
To Troye, 81/2831—2833
H 2
100 COMPARISONS AND SIMILES IX
She was ful ruoore blisful on to see,
Than is the newe pereionette tree.
And softer than the wolle is of a wether, 98/3247 — 3249
fful brighter was the shynyng1 of hir hewe,
Than in the tour the noble yforged newe,
But of hir song it was as loude and yerne,
As any swalwe sittynge on a berne ;
Ther to she koude skippe and make game,
As any kyde or calf folwynge his dame ;
Hir mouth was sweete, as bragot1 or the Meeth,
Or hoord of Apples leyd in hey or heeth,
Wynsynge she was, as is a ioly coif,
Long as a masfr and vprighte as a bolt ;
A brooch sche baar vp on hir loue coler,
As brood as is the boos of a bokeler, 94/3255 — 3266
And she sproong as a colt doth in the traue, 94/3282
Hir forheed shoon as bright as any day, 95/3310
Crul was his heer, and as the gold it shoon,
And strouted as a ffanne large and brode, 95/3314, 3315
hise eyen greye as goos, 95/3317
as whit as is the blosme vp on the rys, 95/3324
He syngeth brokkynge as a nyhtyngale, 97/3377
This Nicholas sat capyng euere vp-rignte
As he had kiked on the newe moone, 99/3444, 3445
This Nicholas sat ay as stille as stoon, 100/3472
Shal falle a reyn, and that so wilde and wood,
That half so greet1 was neuere Noees flood, 101/3517, 3518
Thanne shal I swymme as myrie, I vndertake,
As dooth the white doke after hire drake, 102/3575, 3576
I moorne as dooth a lamb after the tete, 106/3704
I haue swich loue longynge,
That lik a turtel trewe is my moornynge, 106/3705, 3706
Dirk was the nygnt as pich or as the cole, 107/3731
And weepe as dooth a child that is ybete, 107/3759
This Nicholas anon leet fle a fart
As greet as it had been a thonder dent, 109/3806, 3807
Myn herte is mowled also as myne heris,
But if I fare as dooth an Openers, 111/3870, 3871
As eny pecok4 he was proud and gay, 118/3926
As piled as an Ape was his skulle, 118/3935
CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES : ELLESMERE MS. 101
And she was proud and peertf as is a pye, 118/3950
She was as digne as water in a dich", 114/3964
eyen greye as glas, 114/3974
Wery and weett as beest is in the reyn, 118/4107
As any lay she light was and lolyf, 119/4154
as an hors, he snorteth in his sleepe, 119/4163
And I lye as a draf sek in my bed, 121/4206
They walwe as doon two pigges in a poke, 128/4278
Gaillard he was as Goldfynch" in the shawe,
Broun as a berye, a propre short fel[a]we, 127/4367, 4368
He was as ful of loue and paramour
As is the hyve ful of hony sweete, 127/4372, 4373
lokid as a wild lyon, Gam. 4/125
stood stille as stoon, Gam. 8/263
stille as any stone, Gam. 12/395
as stille as any stone, Gam. 13/423
— the tyme wasteth nygHt and day,
And steleth from vs, what pryuely slepynge
And what thurgh necligence in oure wakynge,
As dooth the streem that turneth neuere agayn,
Descendynge fro the montaigne in to playn, 129/2O — 24
0 serpent vnder femynynytee,
Lik to the serpent1 depe in helle ybounde, 141/360, 361
ffor as the lomb toward his deeth is broghfr,
So stant this Innocent1 before the kyng1, 149/6i7, 618
he sleep as a swyn, 108/745
thou ianglest as a lay, 154/774
And she for sorwe as doumb stant as a tree,
So was hir herte shef in hir distresse,
Whan she remembred his vnkyndenesse, 168/1055 — 1057
But was as glad ther-of, as fowel of day, 169/1228
they were as glad of his comyng1,
As fowel is fayn whan fat the sonne vp riseth, 169/1240,
1241
As in a fourmc sit a wery hare,
Were al forstraughtf with houndes grete and smale, 17 1/
1294, 1295
And forth she gooth, as lolif1 as a pye, 174/1399
And hoom he gooth, murie as a Papeiay, 178/1559
102 COMPARISONS AND SIMILES IN
Whit was his face, as Payndemayn,
Hise lippes, rede as rose,
His rode is lyk scarlet in grayn, 191/1915 — 1917
His heer, his herd*, was lyk saffroun, 191/1920
And sweete as is the Brembul flour,
That bereth the rede hepe, 192/1936, 1937
Yet listeth, lordes, to my tale,
Murier than the Nightyngale, 195/2023, 2024
As whifr as is a lilye flour, 196/2057
His brydel as the sonne shoon,
Or as the moone light1, 196/2069, 2070
And forth vpon his wey he rood*,
And sparcle out of the bronde, 197/2094, 2095
Salomon seith That right as Motthes in the shepes flees
anoyeth to the clothes, and the smale w'ormes to the
tree, right so anoyeth sorwe to the herte, 208/2187
right as maladies been cured by hir contraries, right so shul
men warisshe werre by vengeance (advice of the phy
sicians to Melibeus), 204/2207
lik1 a wilde leofi fool-hardy, 253/3io6
Thou art nat lyk1 a penantf or a goosf, 254/3 r 24
And lik an Egles fetheres, wax his heres, 262/3365
Hise nayles lyk a briddes clawes weere, 262/3366
His voys was murier than the murie Orgou
On Messedayes that in the chirche gon ;
Wei sikerer was his crowyug4 in his logge,
Than is a Clokke or an abbey Orlogge, 284/4041 — 4044
His Coomb was redder than the fyn coral,
And battailed as it were a castel wal ;
His byle was blak1, and as the leet it shoon,
Lyk Asure were hise legges and his toon ;
Hise nayles whiter than the lylye flour,
And lyk1 the burned gold was his colour, 284/4049 — 4054
He looketh as it were a grym leoun, 298/4369
and Chauntecleer so free,
Soong1 murier than the Mermayde in the see, 295/4459, 4460
They yolleden as feendes doon in helle, 298/4579
And rynge it out1 as round as gooth a belle, 814/331
And Est and West1, vp-on the peple I bekke,
As dooth a dowue. sittynge on a berne, 816/396, 397
CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES : ELLKSMERE MS. 103
Thou [0 dronke man] fallest as it were a styked swyn
320/556
as dronken as a Mous, 341/246
as a spaynel, she wol on hym lepe, 341/267
ffor thogh he looked as a wood leon), 346/429
I koude walke as fressh" as is a rose, 346/448
ioly as a pye, 346/456
And singe, ywis, as any nyghtyngale, 347/458
flbr al so siker as cold engendreth hayl,
A likerous mouth moste han a likerous tayl, 347/465, 466
Stibourne I was, as is a Leonesse, 352/637
A fair womman, but she be chaast also,
Is lyk a gold ryng1 in a sowes nose, 356/784, 785
And he vp stirte, as dooth a wood leoun, 356/794
As thikke as motss in the sonne beem, 359/868. Of.
Milton's II Penserose, vv. 7, 8.
And as a Bitore bombleth in the Myre,
She leyde hir mouth vn-to the water doun, 862/972, 973
This knyghf lie stood nat stille, as doth a best, 364/1034
And al day after hidde hym as an Owle, 365/io8i
Ye faren lyk a man had lost his wit1, 366/1095
wood as an hare, 372/1327
Hadde alwey bawdes redy to his hond?
As any hauk1 to lure in Engelonct, 373/1339, 1340
ffor in this world nys dogge for the bowe,
That kan an hurt deer from an hool knowe,
Bet than this Somnour knew a sly lecchour,
Or an Auowtier or a paramour, 374/1369 — 1372
The Cartere smoott and cryde as he were wood, 378/1542
lyk an Aspen leef he quook for Ire, 383/i667
And now hath Sathanas, seith he, a tayl
Brodder than of a Carryk is the sayl, 383/1 68 7, 1688
Eight so as bees out swarmeu from an hyue,
Out of the deueles ers ther gonne dryue
Twenty thousand freres in a route, 384/1693 — 1695
chirteth as a sparwe, 387/1 804
He is as angry as a pissemyre, 388/1825
He groneth lyk oure boor lith" in oure sty, 888/1829
104 COMPARISONS AND SIMILES IN
ffat as a whale, and walkynge as a swan, 391/1930
Al vinolent1 as Botel in the spence, 891/1931
Therfore, rights as an hauk* vp at a sours,
Vp springeth in-to their, right so prayeres
Ot' charitable and chaste bisy freres
Maken hir sours to goddes eres two, 891/1938 — -1941
as lust as is a squyre, 895/2090
The frere vp stirte, as dooth a wood leoun, 897/2152
He looked as it were a wilde boor, 397/2 160
with bely stif and toght As any Tabour, 400/2268
Ye ryde as coy and stille as dooth a mayde,
Were newe spoused, sittynge at the bord, 403/2, 3
In crepeth age alwey, as stille as stoon, 407/I2I
And as a lamb, she sitteth meke and stille, 420/538
0 stormy peple, vnsad and euere vntrewe,
Ay vndiscreet* and chaungynge as a vane,
Delitynge euere in rumbul that is newe,
ffor, lyk the moone, ay wexe ye and wane, 434/995 — 99
And she ay sad and constant as a wal, 486/1047
strong1 as is a greet Camaille, 441/1196
Beth egre as is a Tygre yond in Ynde, 441/1199
Ay clappeth as a Mille, 441/1 200
couche as doth a quaille, 441/i2o6
Be ay of chiere as lig&t as leef on lynde, 441/12 n
That passen as a shadwe vpon a Aval, 445/1315
Myn herte and alle my lymes been as grene
As laurer thurgB. the yeer is for to sene, 449/1465, 1466
Thanne shal youre soule vp to heueue skippe
Swifter than dooth an Ar\ve out of the bowe, 455/1672,
1673
she was lyk the brighte morwe of May, 457/1748
Lyk to the naddre in bosom sly vntrewe, 458/1786
as stille as a ston, 459/i8i8
With thilke brustles of his berd vnsofte,
Lyk to the skyn of houndfyssli. sharpe as brere, 459/1 8 2 4,
1825
ful of largon as a flekked pye, 459/1848
CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES: ELLESMERE MS. 105
As fressh as is the brighte someres day, 461/1896
an herte as hard as any stone, 468/1990
he gooth as lowe
As euere dide a dogge for the bowe, 464/2013, 2014
0 socleyn hape, 0 thou fortune Instable,
Lyk to the Scorpion, so deceyuable,
That flaterest with thyn heed, whan thou wolt synge,
Thy tayl is deeth, thurgh thyn enuenymynge,
O brotil loye, o sweete venym queynte,
0 monstre that so subtilly kanst peynte
Thy yiftes vnder hewe of stidefastnesse,
That thou deceyuesfr bothe moore and lesse, 465/2057—2064
Soul as the turtle fat lost hath hire make, 466/2080
Thogh thou myghtest se as fer as shippes saille, 467/2 108
as blynd as is a stoon, 468/2156
as lewed as gees, 471/2275
Syngeth ful murier than the Papeiay, 478/2322
And vp he yaf a roryng1 and a cry,
As dooth the mooder whan the child shal dye, 474/2364,.
2365
But doutelees, as trewe as any steel,
1 haue a wyf, though" fat she poure be, 476/2426, 2427
They murmureden as dooth a swarm of Been, 484/204
Vp riseth fresshe Canacee hir selue,
As rody and bright as dooth the yonge sonne,
That in the Earn is foure degrees vp ronne, 489/384 — 386
a tree fordryed as whit as chalk1, 490/409
And lith" aswowne deed, and lyk a stoon, 492/474
Eight as a serpent1 hit hym vnder floures
Til he may seen his tyme for to byte, 493/512, 513
As in a toumbe is al the faire aboue
And vnder is the corps, 493/51 8, 519
That fressher was and lolyer of array,
As to my doom, than is the Monthe of May, 506/927, 928-
langwissReth as a furye dooth in helle, 5 07/9 50
lyk a bisy bee, 534/195
fful lyk a fiers leoun. 534/1 98
As meke as euere was any lamb, 534/199
euery mortal mannes power nys
But lyke a bladdre ful of wynd, ywys, 542/438, 439
106 COMPARISONS AND SIMILES IN
He hadde ay priked lik as lie were wood!, 547/576
But it was ioye for to seen hym swete :
His forheed dropped as a stillatorie
Were ful of Plantayne and of Paritorie, 547/579 — 581
ffor al the world, they stynken as a goof, 556/886
Al though" this thyng1 myshapped haue. as now,
Another tyme it may be wel ynow.
Vs moste putte oure good in anenture ;
A Marchaut, pardee, may nat ay endure,
Trusteth me wel, in his prosperitee ;
Somtyme his good is drenched in the see,
And somtyme comth it sauf vn-to the londe, 508/944 — 950
Was neuere brid gladder agayn the day,
JSTe nyghtyngale in the seson of May, 570/1342, 1343
They mowe wel chiteren as fat doon Joyes (jays), 572/
1397
Ye been as boold! as is Bayard* the blynde,
That blondreth forth, and peril casteth noon, 572/1413, 1414
Thou songe whilom lyk1 a nyghtyngale, 585/294
Eight as a swerd forkutteth and forkerueth
An Arm atwo, my deere sone, right so
A tonge kutteth freendshipe al atwo, 586/340 — 342
right as the roote of a tree hydeth hym in the erthe, 596/1 13
soothly, ther is no thyng1 that sauoureth so wel to a child?
as the Milk of his Norice, ne no thyng1 moore abhomyn-
able than thilke Milk4 whan it is medled with oother
mete, right1 so the synful man that loueth his synne, hym
semeth that it is to him moost sweete of any thyng1 ; but
fro that tyme that he loueth sadly oure lord Ihesu crist1,
and desireth the lif perdurable, ther nys to him no
thyng1 moore abhomynable, 596/122 — 124
as clooth the hound! fat retourneth to eten his spewyng
597/138
ye be roten in youre synne as a baest in his dong1, 598/139
right as a soughe wroteth in euerich ordure, so wroteth
hire [a fair woman's] beautee in the stynkynge ordure
of synne, 599/157
right as doof a derk* clowde bitwixe vs and the sonne,
601/185
A greet1 wawe of the see comth som tyme with so greet*
a violence that it drencheth the shipe. And the same
harm dooth som tyme the smale dropes of water that
CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES : ELLESMERE MS. 107
entren thurgh a litel creuace in to the thurrok1, and in
the botme of the shipe, if men be so necligent that they
ne descharge hem nat by tyme. And therfore, al though
ther be a difference bitwixe thise tuo causes of drench-
ynge, algates the shipe is dreyntf, 616/363, 364
Looke how muche that a drope of water that falleth in a
fourneys ful of fyr anoyeth or greueth, so muche anoyeth
a venial synne vn-to a man that is perfit1 in the loue of
Ihesu crist, 618/384
right1 as the gaye leefsel atte Tauerne is signe of the wyn
that is in the Celer, 62 1/411
the buttokes of hem faren as it were the hyndre part1 of a
she Ape in the fulle of the Moone, 622/424
Looke how that fir of smale gleedes that been almoost dede
vnder asshen, wollen quike agayn whan they been
touched with brymstoon ; right* so Ire wol eueremo
quyken agayn whan it is touched by the pride that is
couered in mannes herte, 688/548
Ther is a maner tree, as seith sein Ysidre, that1 whau men
maken fir<i of thilke tree, and couere the coles of it with
Asshen, soothly the fir of it1 wol lasten al a yeer or
moore. And right so fareth it of rancour : whan it is
ones conceyued in the hertes of som men, certein it
wol lasten perauenture from oon Estre day vnto another
Estre day and moore, 688/551, 552
And ofte tyme swich cursynge wrongfully retorneth agayn
to hym fat curseth, as a bryd that retorneth agayn to
his owene nest, 639/62O
He [who tarries ere he will turn to God] is lyk to hym
that1 falleth in the dych, and wol nat arise, 649/71 8
He is lyk to an hors that seketh rather to drynken drouy
or trouble water than for to drynken water of the clere
welle, 658/8i 6
Certes they been lyk< to houndes : for an hound, whan he
comth by the Roser, or by othere beautees, though" he
may nat pisse, yet wole he heue vp his leg and make a
contenance to pisse, 662/858
right as he som tyme is cause of alle damages that beestes
don in the feeld?, that breketh the hegge or the closure,
thurgh which he destroyeth that may nat been restoored,
668/870
namoore may maydenhede be restoored than an Arm that
is smyten fro the body may retourne agayn to wexe,
668/871
108 METAPHORS IN
a fouler thefte than for to breke a chirche and stele the
chalice, 664/879
bordels . . . that mowe be likned to a commune gouge
where as men purgen hire ordure, 665/885
hem thynketh they been free and han uo luge, namoore
than hath a free bole that taketh which Cow that hym
liketh in the town, 666/898
right as a free bole is ynough" for al a toun, right so is a
wikked preest1 corrupcion ynough" for al a parisshe, or
for al a contree, 666/899
lyk to houndes that taken no kepe to kyurede, 667/907
though" that hooly writ1 speke of horrible synne, certes hooly
writ1 may nat been defouled, namoore than, the sonne
that1 shyneth on the Mixne, 667/911
Soothly, a whit wal, al-though it ne brenne noght fully by
stikynge of a candele, yet is the Aval blak of the
672/954
METAPHORS.
Vp roos oure hoosf and was oure aller cole1, 24/823
I haue, god woot, a large feeld to ere,
And wayke been the Oxen in my Plough, 26/886, 887
Thanked be ifortune, and hire false wheel, 27/925
—of Chivalrie the flour, 29/982
My lookyng1 is the fader of pestilence [said by Saturn],.
71/2469
this foule prison of this lyf, 87/3061
vnbokeled is the male, 89/3115
He hadde moore tow on his distaf
Than Gerueys knew, 168/3774, 3775
And Absolon hath lust1 hir nether eye, 110/3852
AVith bleryng1 of a proud Milleres eye, 111/3865
Gras tyme is doon, my fodder is now forage, 111/3868
Yet in oure Asshen olde is fyr yreke, 111/3882. Cf.
Gray's Elegy, v. 92.
ffoure gleedes han we, whiche I shal deuyse,
Avauntyng1, liyng1, Anger, Coueitise :
Thise foure sparkles longen vn to eelde, 111/3883-3885
CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES : ELLESMERE MS. 109
And yetf ik haue alwey a Coltes tooth, 112/3887
As many a yeer as it is passed henne
Syn that my tappe of lif bigan to renne,
ffor sikerly, whau I was bore, anon
Deeth drough the tappe of lyf and leefr it gon,
And euer sithe hath so the tappe yronne
Til that almoosfr al empty is the tonne,
The streem of lyf now droppeth on the chymbe, 112/3889
—3895
So was hir ioly whistle wel y-wet, 119/4155
Your bagges been nat fild with ambes as,
But with sys cynk, that renneth for youre chaunce, 132/
124, 125
Humblesse hath slayn in hire al tirannye ;
She is Mirour of alle curteisie,
Hir herte is verray chambre of hoolynesse,
Hir hand Ministre of fredam for almesse, 180/165 — 168
welle of vices, 140/323
roote of Iniquitee, 141/358
nesf of euery vice, 141/364
foot hoof, 143/438
Me list nat of the chaf, or of the stree,
Maken so long a tale, as of the corn, 152/7OI, 702
In hym triste I, and in his rnooder deere,
That is to me, my seyl and eek my steere, 106/833
hauen of refuf, brighte sterre of day (said of the Virgin),
157/852
of cristen folk the flour, 164/1090
Now longe moote thou saille by the cost1, 18 1/ 162 6
This gemme of chastite, this Emeraude,
And eek of martirdom the Euby bright1, 187/1799, 1800
This welle of mercy, Cristes mooder sweete, 188/1846
Confession is neighbor to Innocence, 247/2g66
It is a gentil pasture ther thow goostf, 254/3123
He [was] of knyghthod! and of fredom, flour, 276/3832
Thy sys ffortune hath turned in-to Aas, 277/3851
But I ne kan nat1 bulte it to the bren, 294/4430
Taketh the fruytf, and lat the chaf be stille, 800/4633
the olde daunce, 305/75
110 METAPHORS IN
ffor dronkenesse is verray sepulture
Of marines wit1, and his discrecion, 820/558, 559
And on the ground*, which is my mood res gate,
I knokke with my staf, hothe erly and late,
And seye, leeue inooder, leet me In, 825/729 — 731
Crist, that of perfeccion is welle, 887/107
the flour of myn age, 887/113
Nay, thou shalt drynken of another tonne
Er that I go, shal sauoure wors than Ale, 889/170, 171
Than maystow chese wheither thou wolt sippe
Of that tonne that I shal abroche, 889/176, 177
The flour is goon, ther is namoore to telle,
The bren as I best kan, now rnoste I selle, 347/477, 47^
I made hym of the same wode (i. e. jealousy) a croce,
347/484
in his owene grece, I made hym frye
flbr Angre, and for verray lalousye, 847/487, 488
I was his purgatorie, 847/489
Whan fat his shoo ful bitterly hym wrong1, 847/492
I holde a Mouses herte nat worth a leek,
That hath but oon hole for to sterte to, 350/572, 573
But yet I hadde alwey a coltes tooth,
Gat tothed I was, and that bicam me weel,
I hadde the prente of seint Venus seel, 351/6O2 — 604
Hoold nat the deueles knyf1 ay at thyn herte, 895/2091
I am vnder youre yerde, 403/22
flour of wyfly pacience, 432/919
ffor if fat they were putt to swiche assayes,
The gold of him hath now so badde alayes
With bras, fat thogh" the cojaie be fair at eye,
It wolde rather breste atwo than plye, 440/1 1 66 — 1169
Youre herte hangeth on a ioly pyn, 450/15 16
But I woot best1 where wryngeth me my sho, 451/1553
0 perilous fyr, that in the bedstraw bredeth, 458/1783
Night with his Mantel, fat is derk1 and rude,
Gan ouersprede the Hemysperie aboute, 408/1798, 1799
welle of alle gentillesse, 498/505
With outen coppe, he drank al his penance, 506/942
Thow welle of mercy (the Virgin), 528/37
CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES: ELLESMERE MS. Ill
. . . blered is myn eye, 552/730
. . . roote of alle trecherie, 062/1069
fox, used for a sly person, 563/io8o
roote of alle cursednesee, 069/1301
the preest he made his Ape, 569/1313
wol ye lusten atte ffan, 577/42
Another day he wole, perauenture,
Reclayme thee, and brynge thee to lure, 578/71 , 72
blered is thyn eye, 584/252
Vnbokele and shewe vs what is in thy Male, 590/26
Why sholde I sowen draf1 out of my fest1,
Whan I may sowen whete, if ]>at me lest1, 590/35, 36
Thilke manere of folk been the flyes that folwen the hony,
or elles the houndes that folwen the careyne, 628/441
Thanne stantt Enuye and holdeth the hoote Iren vpon the
herte of man, with a peire of longe toonges, of long1
rancour, 688/555
fflatereres been the deueles norices, that norissen hise
children with Milk1 of losengerie, 689/613
PROVERBS, MAXIMS, AND SENTENTIOUS
EXPRESSIONS IN GENERAL.
Wei koude he [the Miller] stelen corn and tollen thries,
And yet he hadde a thombe of gold, pardee, 16/563
And this figure he added eek ther to,
That if gold ruste, what shal Iren doo? 1 5/500
And yet this manciple sette hir aller cappe, 17/586
And priuely a fynch eek koude he pulle, 19/652
Purs is the Ercedekenes helle, seyde he, 19/658
The wordes rxoote be cosyn to the dede, 21/742
If euen song and morwe song accorde, 24/830
who shal yeue a louere any lawe 1
Loue is a gretter lawe, 84/1164,1165. Boethius, De
Consol. III. 12:
' Quis legem det amantibus 1
Major lex amor est sibi.
112 PBOVKRBS, MAXIMS, ETC.. IN
A man moot nedes loue, maugree his heed, 34 1169
Ech man for hym self, 35 1182
But sooth is seyd. go si then many yeres,
That feeld hath even, and the wode hath ere?. 44 1521,
1522
It is ful fair a man to bere hym euene,
ffor al day meeteth men at vnset steuene, 44 1523. 1524
Xow in the crope, now donn in the breres,
Now vp, now doun, as octet in a welle. 44. 45 : ;
lone ne lordshipe
TTol noghf hir thankes haue, no felaweshipe, 47 1625, 1626
ffor pitee renneth soone in gentil herte, 51 .1761
He moot [e] pipen in an yuy leef, 03/1838
Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old, 61 2125
As sooth is seyd, elde has greet auantage ;
In eide is bothe wysdom and vsage ;
Men may the olde at renne and noght at rede, 70 2447 —
2449
Som tyme an ende ther is of euery dede, 75 '2636
And certeinly, ther Xature wol nat wirche,
flare wel Phisik1, go ber the man to chirche, 79, 2759, 2760
What is this world, what asketh men to haue,
Xow with his loue, now in his colde graue, 79/2777,
love after wo, and wo after gladnesse, 81/2841
This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo,
And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro ;
Deeth is an ende of euery worldes soore, 81/2847
Thanne is it wysdom, as it thynketh me,
To maken vertu of necessitee. 87 3041, 3042
How that a clerk hath set the wrightes cappe, 90/3143
men shal nat maken ernest of game, 9 1/31 86
Men sholde wedden after hire estaat,
ffor youthe and elde is often at debaat, 93 3829, 3830
A clerk1 hadde litherly biset his whyle,
But if he koude a Carpenter bigyle, 95, 3299. 3300
ffor som folk1 wol ben wonnen for richesse,
And somme for strokes, and sonune for gentilesse, 97^ 3381,
35^
bio we the bukkes horn, 97 3387
CHAUCER'S CAXTERBURY TALES: ELLESMERE MS. 113
alwey the nye slye
Maketh the ferre leeue to be looth, 87/3392, 3393
A man \voot litel what hym shal bityde, 99/3450
Werk al by conseil, and thou shalt nat rewe, 101/3530
of an hastif thyng1
Men may nat preche, or maken tariyng1 102/3545, 3546
Men seyn thus, sende the wise, and sey no thyng1, 103/
3598
Lo, which a greet thyng is Affeccion !
Men may dyen of ymaginaciofi,
So depe may impression be take, 103/3611 — 3613
The deuel made a Rene for to preche,
And of a Soutere, Shipnmn or a leche, 112/3903, 3904
sette his howue, 112/3911
ffor Icueful is with force force of showue (vim vi repellere),
112/39i2
fibr lalous folk ben perilous euermo, 114/3961
ffor hooly chirches good moot been despended
On hooly chirches blood, that is descended, 114/3983, 3984
nede has na peer,
Hym boes serue hym selue, that lias na swayn, 116/4026,
4027
The gretteste clerkes been nought wisest men,
As whilom to the wolf thus spak the mare, 116/4054,
4055
Yet kan a Millere make a clerkes berd?
(i.e. cheat him; Fr. faire la barbe, to shave), 117/4096
Man sal taa of twa thynges,
Slyk as he fyndes, or taa slyk as he brynges, 118/4129,
4130
With empty hand men may none haukes tulle, 119/4134
That gif a man in a point1 be ygreued,
That in another he sal be ruleued, 120/41 81, 4182
Vnhardy is vnseely, thus men sayth, 12 1/4210
Hym thar nat wene wel that yuele dooth,
A gylour shal hym self bigyled be, 124/4320, 4321
Ne brynge nat every man in-to thyn hous, (Ecclus. xi. 29),
125/4331
Wel oghte a man, auysed for to be,
Whom that he broghte in-to his pryuetee, 120/4333, 4334
ELLES. INDEX. I
114 PROVERBS, MAXIMS, ETC., IN
A man may seye ful sooth, in game and pleye, 125/4355
But sooth pley quaad pley, as the fleinyng seith, 1^6/4357
thefte and Riot1 they been conuertible, 127/4395
Reuel and trouthe, as in a lowe degree,
They been ful wrothe al day, as men may see, 128/4397,
4398
Wei bet is roten Appul out of hoord,
Than fat it rotie al the reinenauntf ;
So fareth it1 by a riotous seruaunf ,
It is wel lasse harm to lete hym pace
Than he shende alle the seruantz in the place, 128/4406 —
4410
ther is no theef with-oute a lowke,
That helpeth hym to wasten and to sowke,
Of that he brybe kan, or borwe may, 128/4415 — 4417
After bale coineth bote, Jjorgh goddes might, Gam. 18/631
He inoste nedes walke iu felde £at may not walke in towne, (lum.
20/672
ffor losse of catel may recouered be,
But losse of tyme sheudeth vs, quod he (Seneca), 129/27, 28
Biheste is dette, 1 80/41
ffor swich lawe as a man yeueth another wight,
He sholde hym scluen vsen it by right, 130/43, 44
in the sterres, clerer than is glas,
Is writen, god woof, who so koude it rede,
The deeth of euery man, withouten drede, 186/194 — 196
0 sodeyn wo, that eucre art successour,
To worldly bliss, spreynd with bittemesse ;
The ende of the ioye of oure worldly labour,
Wo occupieth the fyn of oure gladnesse, 143/421 — 424
Yp on thy glade day, haue in thy mynde
The vnwar wo or harm fat comtli bihynde, 148/426, 427
gentil herte is fulfild of pitee, 150/66o
The fruyf of euery tale, is for to seye, 152/7o6
Ther dronkenesse regneth in any route,
Ther is no conseil hyd, with outen doute, 154/776, 777
Ioye of this world for tyme wol nat abyde,
tiro day to nyght it changeth as the tyde, 166/1133, 1134
Who lyued euere in swich delit o day,
That hym ne moeued outher conscience,
Or Ire, or talent1, or som kynnes affray,
Enuye, or pride, or passion, or offence] 166/1135 ~l 13&
CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES: ELLESMERE MS. 11$
Mordre wol out1, 186/1766
He that soone deemeth, soone shal repente, 205/2220
whil that Iren is hoof, men sholden smyte, 205/2226
he that precheth to hem that listen nat heeren his wordes,
his sermon hem anoieth, 206/2234
good conseil wanteth whan it is moost [nede], 206/2238
he hasteth wel that wisely lean abyde, And in wikked
haste is no profit1, 207/2244
thre thynges dryuen a man out of his hous . . . Smoke,
droppyng1 of Keyn, and wikked wyues, 209/2276
he Jjat soone deemeth, soone repenteth, 212/2325
he that to muche embraceth, distreyneth litel, 218/2405
for to do synne is mannyssh, but, certes. for to perseuere
longe in sinne, is werk of the deuel, 221/2454
Ther is an old prouerbe, quod she, seith, That1 the good-
nesse fat thou maysf do this day, do if, and abide nat*
ne delaye it naf til to morwe, 248/2984, 2985
Of fieble trees ther comen wrecched ympes, 254/3146
Mordre wol out, 289/4242
the latter ende of ioye is wo (Petrus Comestor), 298/4395
what J>at god for woof, moot nedes bee, 294/4424
A theef of venyson, that hath forlaff
His likerousnesse and al his olde craft1,
Kan kepe a fforesf best of any man, 305/83 — 85
Of alle tresons souereyn pestilence
Is whan a wigh~f bitrayseth Innocence, 305/9 1, 92
Vnder a shepherde, softe and necligent,
The wolf hath many a sheepe and lamb to-renf, 306/iot,
102
fforsaketh synne, er synne yow forsake, 311/286
ffor peril is, bothe fyr and tow tassemble, 336/8g
God clepeth folk to hym, in sondry wyse,
And euerich hath of god a propre yifte,
Som this, som thaf, as hym liketh shifte, 337/IO2 — 104
Who so Jwt wol nat be war by othere men,
By hym shul othere men corrected be, 339/i8o, 181
Ne noon so grey goos gooth in the lake,
As seistow wol been with-oute make, 341/269, 270
Of alle men, his wysdom is the liyeste,
i 2
116 PROVERBS, MAXIMS, ETC., IN
That rekketh neuere Avho hath the world in honde, 343/
326, 327
He is to greet a nygard that wolde werne
A man to lighte his candle at his lanterne, 348/333, 334
Who so comth first to Mille, first grynt, 345/389
With empty hand men may none haukes lure, 345/415
Greet prees at Market1 maketh deere ware,
And to greet cheepe is holde at litel prys, 348/522, 523
Who so that buyldeth his hous al of salwes,
And priketh his blynde hors ouer the falwes,
And suffreth his wyf to go seken halwes,
Is worthy to been hanged on the galwes, 352/655 — 658
er J?at thonder stynte, comth a reyn, 354/732
fful selde vp riseth, by his branches smale,
Prowesse of man, for god, of his goodnesse,
Wole that of hym we clay me oure gentillesse,
fl'or of oure eldres may we no thyng clayme
J5ut temporel thyng1 jjat man may hurte and mayme, 366/
1128 — 1132
he is gentil that dooth gentil dedis, 367/1 170
Glad pouerte is an'honeste thyng. certeyn, 368/1183
ffreres and feendes been but lyte a-sonder, 383/1674
Lo ech thyng1 that is oned in it selue,
Ismoore strong1 than whan it is toscatered, 392/1968, 1969
With-Inne thyn hous ne be thou no leoun, 393/1989
Bountee comth al of god, nat of the strcen
Of which they been engendred and ybore, 408/157, 158
Loue is noghtf oold as whan J?at it is newe, 430/857
Bet is, quod he, a pyk than a pykerel,
And bet than olde boef1 is the tendre veel, 448/1419, 1420
Noon in this world that trotteth hool in al, 451/1538
Lo pitee renneth soone in gentil herte, 468/1986
But worldly loye may nat alwey dure, 465/2055
Passe ouer is an ese, 467/21 15
As many heddes, as manye wittes ther been, 484/203
That pitee renneth soone in gentil herte, 492/479
by the whelpe chasted is the leon), 492/491
A trewe wigfct and a theef1 thenken nat oon, 494/537
That I made vertu / of necessitee, 495/593
CHAUCER S CANTERBURY TALES: ELLESMERE MS. 117
Therfore bihoueth hire a ful long spoon
That shal ete with a feend*, 495/6o2, 603
That alle thyng1 repeirynge to his kynde,
Gladeth hym self1, thus seyn men, as I gesse, 495, 496/
608, 609
Pacience is an heigh vertu, certeyn,
ffor it venguysseth, as thise clerk es seyn,
Thynges J)«t rigour sholde neuere atteyne, 502/773 — 775
Lerneth to snffre, or elles, so moot I goon,
Ye shul it lerne wher so ye wole or noon, 502/777, 778
That* that is ouerdoon, it wol nat preeue
Aright1, as clerkes seyn, it is a vice, 549/645, 646
(Omne nimium vertitur in vitium.}
ffor whan a man hath ouer greet a wit1,
fful oft hym happeth to mysusen if, 549/648, 649
he that gilty is
Demeth alle thyng1 be spoke of hym, ywis, 550/688, 689
ffor vn-to shrewes, ioye it is and ese,
To haue hir felawes in peyne and disese, 552/746, 747
But euery thyng1 which fat seineth as the gold1,
Nis nat gold, as jjat I haue herd* told?,
N"e euery appul that is fair to eye,
Nis nat good, what so men clappe or crye, 558, 559/g62-
965
Of euery ordre som shrewe is, pardee, 560/995
bet than neuere is late, 572/i4io
Ye been as boold? as is Bayard! the blynde, 572/1413
Dun is in the Myre, 570/5
The word moot nede accorde with the dede, 583/2o8. See
21/742
litel langlyng1 causeth muchel rest, 587/35O
Thyng that is seyd, is seyd, and forth it gooth, 587/355
many smale maken a greet, 616/362
118 PRAYERS, ENTREATIES, IMPRECATIONS, ETC., IN
PRAYERS, ENTREATIES, IMPRECATIONS, ETC.
•God spede you, 78/2558
God saue swich a lord, 78/2563
God shilde that he deyde sodeynly, 98/3427
ffor Ihesus loue, 106/3717
for Cristes swete tree, 108/3767
for goddes banes, 117/4073
forcristes peyne, 117/4084
ffor Cristes saule, 122/4263
for cristes passion, 125/4327
I pray to god so yeue me some and care, 125/4335
god forbede, 125/4339 > 207/2248
for the loue of god and of Seint Ioh~n, 129/1 8
god hym see, 134/156
I pray to god in honour hire susteene, 134/i6o
almygfcty god thee gyde, 187/245
crisf that starf for our sauacion
So yeue me grace hise heestes to fulfille, 188/283, 2^4
Ihesu crisf be with you alle, 139/31 8
He that is lord of ffortune be thy steere, 144/448
Osanne, 150/642
thanked be cristes grace, 151/686
Lord, wel come be thy lust1 and thy pleasance
My lust1 I putte al in thyn ordinance, 154/762, 763
lord, ay wel come be thy sonde, 156/826
heryed be goddes grace, 157/872
ffor wynd and weder, almygfety god p?<rchace, 157/873
god yeve him meschance, 159/914
cristes moodcr, blessed be she ay, 160/950
Now god, quod he, and hise halwes brigh"te
So wisly on my soule as haue mercy, 163/io6o, 1061
Now Ihesu Crist' that of his myght may sende
loye after wo, gouerne vs in his grace
And kepe vs alle that been in this place. Amen, 166/
1160 — 1162
CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES: ELLESMERE MS. 119
God shilde, 172/1356
•god take on me vengeance, 173/1383
al so god me saue, 174/1 41 6
God and seint Austyn spede yow and gyde, 175/1449
god shilde yow fro care, 175/1454
god vs sende Taillynge ynough vn-to oure lyues ende, ISO/
1624
Ave Maria, 188/1698
0 seinte Marie benedicite, 198/1974
God sliilde his cors fro shonde, 197/2098
for goddes dignitee, 199/2 109
god yelde yow, 219/1772
1 vovve to god, 254/3122
I pray to god yeue him confusioun, 254/3133
God yeue me sorwe, 254/3140
so god yow blesse, 281/3978
god his soule blesse, 296/4485
for seinte charitee, 29 7/4510
god lat him neue?'e thee, 800/4622
for the loue of Christ* J>at for vs dyde, 828/658
I make auow to goddes digne bones, 824/695
god yow see, 825/715
God saue yow fat boghte agayn mankynde, 826/766
god yeue his soule reste, 848/50 1
God lete his soule neuere come in helle, 848/504
god his soule blesse, 848/525
God haue hir soule, 849/530
ffor goddes loue, 364/io6o
for goddes loue, 865/1096
God sende hem soone verray pestilence, 870/1264
on goddes name, 871/1276
Grantmercy, 875/1403
I pray to god saue thee, and seint loy, 879/1564
And god fat made after his ymage
Mankynde, saue and gyde vs alleand some, 881/1642, 164
God saue yow alle saue this cursed frere, 884/1707
120 PRAYERS, ENTREATIES, IMPRECATIONS, ETC.. IN
Deus hie, 886/1770
god amende defautes, 888/1810
Graunt mercy, 888/1812
for seinte Trinitee, 888/1824
god be thanked of his loone, 389/r 86 1
Te deum, 389/i866
for hym that harwed hello, 896/2107
for seinte Charitee, 396/2 1 19
god yow see, / 898/2169
God yelde yow, 398/2 177
god lat hym neuwe thee, 399/2 207
god lete thee neutre thee, 899/2232
god hym saue, 400/2265
I prey to god so yeue his soule reste, 404/3O
as god forbede, 407/136
god forbeede, 437/1076
Grauntmcrcy, 437/io88
God shilde that it sholde so bifalle, 442/1232
so god yow blesse, 442/1 240
ther god his bones corse, 444/1308
a Seinte marie benedicite, 445/1337
god haue yow in his grace, 445/1 688
God shilde vs alle from youre aqueyntance, 453/1787
God graunte thee thyn hoomly fo tespye, 458/1792
fFor goddes loue, 459/i8i4
God be thyn helpe, 460/1874
for hir loue fat is of heuene queene, 478/^334
God blesse vs and his mooder Seinte Marie, 475/24 18
ffor goddes loue, 491/464
god yeue thee good chaunce, 498/679
for thilke god aboue, 517/1321
god yeue thee chance, 548/593
God it amende, 549/651
god yeue it harde grace, 550/665
the foule feeiid hym quelle, 551/705
Er that he dye, sorwe haue he and shame, 551/709
CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES: ELLE^MERE MS. 121
god forbede, 560/996; 662/1046, 1064
God kepe vs from his false dissymulynge, 568/1073
Graunt mercy, 565/1156
the foule feeiuJ hym fecche. 665/1159
for goddes loue, 565/1176
yuele moot he cheeue, 567/1225
Goddes blessyng* and his moodres also
And alle halwes, have ye sire Chanon, 567/1243, I244
the deuel out of his skyn Hym terve (2. 4. 6. tome, 3. 5.
turne) I pray to god for his falshede, 568/1273, I274
ffor loue of god that for vs alle deyde, 570/1351
God it forbeede, 571/1375
grant mercy, 571/1380
God sende euery trewe man boote of his bale, 574/1481
for Cokkes bones, 576/9
god yeue thee sorwe, 576/15
foule moote thou falle, 577/4O
on goddes name, 586/318
for Cokkes bones, 590/29
Now faire yow bifalle, 591/68
to do wel god sende yo\v his grace, 591/74
so browke I inyn eie, Gamalyn 10/334
so browke I myn hals, Gam. 12/407
Ranked be goddes sonde, Gam. 18/419
for cristes passion, Gam. 1 4/477
BO browke I my bone, Gam. 10/489
so euer here I masse, Gam. 15/515
for seint charite. Gam. 15/513
So brouke I my chyn, Gam. 17/567
so mote I wel the, Gam. 17/577
euel mote I thryue, Gam. 17/586
so euer here I masse, Gim. 17/595
god sende vs gode, Gam. 19/640
haue god my treuthe, Gam. 20/678
for ]pe gode rode, Gain. 21/707
haue god my lyfe, Gam. 21/714
euel mote thu the, Gam. 21/720
so mote I wel the, Gam. 24/833
so god jeue me good rest, Gam. 24/841
God bring vs to |>e loye fat euer fihal be, Gam. 26, 902
1/
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INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND SUBJECTS
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COMPARISONS AND SIMILES, XlETAPHORS
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PROF. HIRAM CORSON, LL.D.
'1 i oKMCI.l, UXIVEUSITV.
LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR THE CHAUCER SOCIETY
BY KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., LTD.,
BROADWAY HOUSE, LUDGATE HILL, E.G.,
AND BY HENRY FROWDE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS,
AMEX CORNER, E.C., AXD IX NEW YORK.
1911, for the issue of 1884.
Editor in Ch ief: —Rev. PROFESSOR W. W. SKEAT, LiTT.D.
Hon. Sec. : — W. A. DALZIEL, Esq., 67, Victoria Road, Finsbury Park, London, N.
To do honour to CHAUCEU, and to let the lovers and students of him see how far the
best unprinted Manuscripts of his works differd from the printed texts, this Society
was founded in 1868. There were then, and are still, many questions of metre, pro
nunciation, orthography, and etymology yet to be settled, for which more prints of
Manuscripts were and are wanted ; and it is hardly too much to say that every line
of Chaucer contains points that need reconsideration. The founder (Dr Furnivall)
began with The Canterbury Tales, and has given of them (in parallel columns in
Royal 4to) six of the best theretofore unprinted Manuscripts known. Inasmuch as
the parallel arrangement necessitated the alteration of the places of certain tales in
some of the MSS, a print of each MS has been issued separately, following the order
of its original. The first six MSS printed have been : the Elles'mere (by leave of the
Earl of Ellesmere) ; the Hengwrt (by leave of W. W. E. Wynne, Esq.) ; the Camb.
Univ. Libr., MS Gg. 4. 27; the Corpus, Oxford; the Petworth (by leave of Lord
Leconfield) ; and the Lansdowue 851 (Brit. Mus.). The Harleian 7334 has followd,
and the Cambridge Dd. , completed by Egerton 2726 (the Haistwell MS.). Specimens
of all accessible MSS of the Tfo/esarenow nearly completed, edited by the late Prof.
2upitza, Ph.D., and Prof. John Koch, Ph.D. Lady Cardigan will not allow her
MS to be seen.
Of Chaucer's Minor Poems, — the MSS of which are generally later than the best
MSS of the Canterbury Tales, — all the available MSS have been printed, so as to
secure all the existing evidence for the true text.
Of Troiltts, Parallel-Texts from the 6 best MSS have been issued (the Campsall
MS also separately), and a 7th MS text of it with the englisht Boccaccio Comparison.
Autotypes of most of the best Chaucer MSS have been publisht.
The Society's publications are issued in two Series, of which the first contains the
different texts of Chaucer's works ; and the Second, such originals of and essays on
these as can be procured, with other illustrative treatises, and Supplementary Tales.
The yearly subscription, which constitutes Membership, is 2 guineas, beginning
with January 1, 1868, and ending with 1910. All the Society's Publications can still
be had — except First Series, No. XLVIII.
The Society's Hon. Sees, for America are, Prof. Kittredge, of Harvard College,
Cambridge, Mass., for the North and East, and Prof. Bright, of Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, for the South and West. Members' names and subscriptions
should be sent to the Lome Hon. Sec., W. A. Dalziel, 67 Victoria Road, Finsbury
Park, London, N.
FIRST SERIES.
The Society's issue for 1868, in the First Series, is,
I. The Prologue and Knight's Tale, of the Canterbury Tales, in 6 parallel
Texts (from the 6 MSS named below), together with Tables, showing the
Groups of the Tales, and their varying order in 38 MSS of the Tales, and
in 5 old printed editions, and also Specimens from several MSS of the
"Moveable Prologues" of the Canterbury Tales, — The Shipman's Prologue,
and Franklin's Prologue, — when moved from their right places, and of the
Substitutes for them. (The Six-Text, Part I.)
II— VII. II. The Prologue and Knight's Tale from the Ellesmere MS, Part I ; III.
Hengwrt MS, 154, Pt I ; IV. Cambridge MS Gg. 4. 27, Pt 1 ; V. Corpus
MS, Oxford, Pt I; VI. Petworth MS. Pt I ; VII. Lansdowne MS. 851,
Pt I. (separate issues of the Texts forming Part I of the Six-Text edition.)
The issue for 1869, in the First Series, is,
VIII— XIII. VIII. The Miller's. Reeve's, and Cook's Tales: Ellesmere MS, Part
II; IX. Hengwrt MS. Pt II ; X. Cambridge MS, Pt II ; XI. Corpus MS,
Pt II; XII. Petworth MS, Pt II; XIII. Lansdowne MS, Pt II, with an
Appendix of "Gamelyn " from six MSS.
(separate issues of the Texts forming the Six-Text, Part II, No. XIV.)
The issue for 1870, in the First Series, is,
XIV. The Miller's, Reeve's, and Cook's Tales, with an Appendix of the Spurious
Tale of Gamelyn, in 6 parallel Texts. (Six-Text, Part II.)
The issue for 1871, in the First Series, is,
XV. The Man of Law's, Shipman's, and Prioress's Tales, with Chaucer's own
Tale of Sir Thopas, in 6 parallel Texts from the MSS above named, and 10
coloured drawings of Tellers of Tales, after the originals in the Ellesmere MS.
(Six-Text, Part III.)
XVI. The Man of Law's Tale, from the Ellesmere MS. Part III.
XVII. „ „ „ ,, „ „ „ Cambridge MS. Part III.
XVIII. „ ,, ,, „ „ „ „ Corpus MS. Part III.
XIX. The Shipman's, Prioress's, and Man of Law's Tales, from the Petworth MS.
Part III,
Chaucer Society's Publications : Jf'irst Series. 3
XX. The Man of Law's Tale, from the Lansdowne MS. Part III.
(each with woodcuts of fourteen drawings of Tellers of Tales in the
Ellesmere MS.)
X XI. A Parallel-Text edition of Chaucer's Minor Poems. Part I :— 1. ' The Dethe
of Blaunche the Jhtche.tse,' from Thynne's ed. of 1532, the Fairfax MS 16.
and Tanner MS 346; 2. '•the Compleynt to File,' 3. ' the 1'urlament of
Foules,' and 4. ''the Compleynt of Mars,' each from six MSS.
XXII. Supplementary Parallel-Texts of' Chaucer's Minor Poems, Parti, containing
1. 'The Parlament of Foules,' from three MSS. [Reprinted in LIX,
First Series.]
XXIII. Odd Texts of Chaucer's Minor Poems, Part I, containing 1. two MS fragments
of ' The Par-lament of Foules ; ' 2. the two differing versions of ' The Prologue
to the Legende of Good Women,' arranged so as to show their differences ;
3. an Appendix of Poems attributed to Chaucer, i. 'The Balade of Pitee
by Chauciers ; ' n. 'The Cronycle made by Chaucer,' both from MSS written
by Shirley, Chaucer's contemporary.
XXIV. A One-Text Print of Chaucer's Minor Poems, being the best Text from the
Parallel-Text Edition, Part I, containing, I. The Dethe of Blaunche the
Duchesse, II. The Compleynt to Pite, III. The Parlament of Foules, IV.
The Compleynt of Mars, V. The ABC, with its original from De DeGuile-
ville's Piurinagt de la Vie fnimaitie (edited from the best Paris MSS by M.
Paul Meyer) .
The issue for 1872, in the First Series, is,
XXV. Chaucer's Tale of Melibe. the Monk's, Nun's-Priest's, Doctor's, Pardoner's,
Wife of Bath's, Friar's, and Summoner's Tales, in 6 parallel Texts from the
MSS above named, with the remaining 13 coloured drawings of Tellers of
Tales, after the originals in the Ellesmere MS, and with Specimens of the
Variations of 30 MSS in the Doctor-Pardoner Link. (Six-Text, Part IV.)
XXVI. The Wife's, Friar's, and Summoner's Tales, from the Ellesmere MS, with
9 woodcuts of Tale-Tellers. (Part IV.)
XXVII. The Wife's, Friar's, Summoner's, Monk's, and Nun's-Priest's Tales, from
the Hengwrt MS, with 23 woodcuts of the Tellers of the Tales. (Part III.)
XXVIII. The Wife's, Friar's, and Summoner's Tales, from the Cambridge MS,
with 9 woodcuts of Tale-Tellers. (Part IV.)
XXIX. A Treatise on the Astrolabe, addressed to his son Lowys, in 1391 A.D., by
Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by the Rev. Prof. Walter W. Skeat, M.A.
The issue for 1873, in the First Series, is,
XXX. The Six-Text Canterbury Tales, Part V, containing the Clerk's and Mer
chant's Tales.
The issue for 1874, in the First Series, is,
XXXI. The Six-Text, Part VI, containing the Squire's and Franklin's Tales.
XXXII. The Clerk's, Merchant's, Squire's, Franklin's, Doctor's, Pardoner's, Ship-
man's, Prioress's Tales, Sir Thopas, Melibeus, Monk's, Nun's-Priest's,
Second Nun's Tales, Ellesmere MS, Part V.
XXXIII. The Clerk's, Merchant's, Squire's, Franklin's, Doctor's, Pardoner's, Ship-
man's, Prioress's Tales, Sir Thopas, Melibeus, Monk's, Nun's-Priest's,
Second Nun's Tales, Cambridge MS, Part V.
XXXIV. Squire's, Wife of Bath's, Friar's, Summoner's, Clei-k's, Merchant's,
Franklin's Tales, Corpus MS, Part IV.
XXXV. Squire's, Merchant's, Wife of Bath's, Friar's, Summoner's, Clerk's, Frank
lin's, Second Nun's Tales, Petworth MS, Part IV.
XXXVI. Squire's, Wife of Bath's, Friar's, Summoner's, Clerk's, Merchant's,
Franklin's Tales, Lansdowne MS, Part IV.
The issue for 1875, in the First Series, is,
XXXVII. The Six-Text, Part VII, the Second Nun's, Canon's- Yeoman's, and
Manciple's Tales, with the Blank-Parson Link.
XXXVIII. Second Nun's, Canon's-Yeoman's, Manciple's Tales, Ellesmere MS,
Part VI.
XXXIX. Manciple's, Man of Law's, Squire's, Merchant's, Franklin's, Second
Nun's, Clerk's, Doctor's, Pardoner's, Shipman's, Prioress's Tales, Sir
Thopas, Melibeus Tales, Hengwrt MS, Part IV.
XL. Second Nun's, Canon's-Yeoman's, Manciple's Tales, Cambridge MS, Part VI.
XLI. Second Nun's, Canon's-Yeoman's, Doctor's, Pardoner's. Shipman's, Prioress's
Tales, Sir Thopas, Melibeus, Monk's, Nun's-Priest's, Manciple's Tales,
Corpus MS, Part V.
XLII. Second Nun's, Canon's-Yeoman's, Doctor's, Pardoner's Tales, Sir Thopas,
Melibeus, Monk's, Nun's-Priest's, Manciple's Tales, Petworth MS. Part V.
XLIII. Second Nun' s, Canon's-Yeoman's, Doctor's, Pardoner's, Shipman's, Prioress's
Tales, Sir Thopas, Melibeus, Monk's, Nun's-Priest's, Manciple's Tale*,
Lansdowne MS, Part V.
Chaucer Society's Publwatitmt : First Series.
XLIV. A detaild Comparison of the Troyltts and Cryseyde with Boccaccio's Filos-
trato, with a Translation of all Passages used by Chaucer, and an Abstract
of the Parts not used, by W. Michael Rossetti, Esq., and with a print of the
Troylus from the Harleian MS 3943. Part I.
XLV. Ryme-Index to the Ellesniere MS of the Canterbury Tales, by Henry Croinie,
Esq., M.A. In 8vo for the separate Ellesmere MS.
XLVI. Ryme-Index to the Ellesmere MS, by Henry Cromie, Esq., M.A. In Royal
4to for the Six-Text.
XLVII. Notes and Corrections for the 8vo Ryme-Index, by H. Cromie, Esq., M.A.
The issue for 1876, in the First Series, is,
XLV1II. Autotype Specimens of the Chief Chaucer MSS, Part I, 16 Autotypes,
with a Note on the MSS, by Dr. F. J. Furnivall.
The issue for 1877, in the First Series, is,
XLIX. The Six-Text, Part VIII, containing1 the Parson's Tale, with a Table of its
Contents ; and Mr Cromie's Notes and Corrections for the 4to Ryme-Index.
L— LV. L. The Parson's Tale, Ellesmere MS, Part VII ; LI. Hengwrt MS. Part
V; LII. Cambridge MS, Part VII; LIII. Corpus MS, Part VI; LIV.
Petworth MS, Part VI; LV. Lansdowne MS, Part VI.
The issue for 1878, in the First Series, is,
LVI. Autotype Specimens of the Chief Chaucer MSS, Part II : 9 from the Cambridge
MS Gg. 4. 27, and 1 from Lord Leconfield's MS.
LVII. A Parallel-Text edition of Chaucer's Minor Poems, Part II : — 5. The ABC,
from 6 MSS ; 6. The Mother of God, from 3 MSS ; 7. Anelida and Aveyte,
from 5 MSS and Caxton's print; 8- The Former Age, from 2 MSS (with
the Latin original, and Chaucer's prose Englishing) ; 9. To his Scrivener
from Shirley's MS and Stowe's print; 10. The ITottse of fame, from 2 MSS
and Caxton's and Thynne's prints.
The issue for 1879, in the First Series, is,
LVIII. A Parallel-Text edition of Chaucer's Minor Poems, Part III, completing the
Parallel-Text, and containing, 11. The Legend of Good Women from 5 MSS
and Thynne's print; 12. Truth from 6 MSS ; 13. The Compleynt of Venus
from 6 MSS ; 14. The Envoy to Scogan from 3 MSS ; 15. Marriage, or The
Envoy to Buldon, from 1 MS and Notary's and Thynne's prints ; 16. Gentil-
esse from 6 MSS ; 17. Proverbs from 3 MSS ; 18. Stedfastness from 6 MSS;
19. Fortune from 6 MSS ; 20. Chaucer to his empty Purse, from 6 MSS.
The issue for 1880, in the First Series, is,
LIX. Supplementary Parallel-Texts of Chaucer's Minor Poems, Part II : — 1«. The
Parlament of Foules from 3 MSS ; 2. The ABC from 6 MSS ; 3. Anelida
and Arcite from 6 MSS; 4. The Legend of Good Women, in whole or part
from 4 MSS ; 5. The Complaint of Mars from 3 MSS ; 6. Truth from 6
MSS ; 7. The Compleynt of Venus from 3 MSS ; 8. Gentilesse from 3 MSS ;
9. Lack of Stedfastness from Thynne's print and 2 MSS ; 10. Fortune from
2 MSS and Caxton's print.
LX. Odd-Texts of Chaucer's Minor Poems, Part II, containing, 3. The A 7? C, from
2 MSS ; 4. The House of Fame, from the Pepys' MS, &c. ; 5. The Legend
of Good Women from 3 MSS ; 6. The Dethe of Blaunche the Duchesse from
1 MS ; 7. The Complaint to Pity from 2 MSS ; 8. The Parlament of Foivles
from 1 MS ; 9. Truth from 3 MSS ; 10. Envoy to Seogan from 1 MS ; 11.
Purse from 1 MS.
LXI. A One-Text Print of Chaucer's Minor Poems, Part II, containing, VI. Mother
of God; VII. Anelida; VIII. The Former Age ; IX. Adam Scrivener ;
X. The House of Fame; XI. Legende ; XII. Truth; XIII. Venus; XIV.
Scogan; XV. 'Marriage; XVI. Gentilesse; XVII. Proverbs; XVIII.
Stedfastness; XIX. Fortune; XX. Purse.
LXII. Autotype Specimens of the chief Chaucer MSS. Part III : 2 from Henry
V's MS of the Troilns, when he was Prince of Wales (now Mr Bacon
Frank's) ; 1 from Shirley's MS of the ABC at Sion Coll.
The issue for 1881, in the First Series, is,
LXIII. A Parallel-Text edition of Chaucer's Troiltis $ Criseyde from the Campsall
MS, b. 1415 A.D. (written for Henry V when Prince of Wales), Harleian
MS. 2280, and Cambr. Univ. Libr. Gg. 4. 27. Part I. Books 1 and 2.
The issue for 1882, in the First Series, is,
LXIV. A Parallel-Text edition of Chaucer's Troilus <Sf Criseyde from the Campsall
MS, before 1415 A.D. (written for Henry V when Prince of Wales), Harleian
MS 2280, and Cambr. Univ. Libr. Gg. 4. 27. Part II. Books 3, 4, 5.
The issue for 1883, in the First Series, is,
LXV. Part II of Mr W. M. Rossetti's Comparison of Chaucer's Troilus and Cry
seyde with Boccaccio's Filostrato, completing the work.
The issue for 1884, in the First Series, is,
LXVI— LXXI. 6 Appendixes to the 6 MSS of the Six-Text, with Wood-cuts and
colord Cuts of 6 Tellers of Tales and of 6 emblematical Figures from the
Cambridge Univ. MS, Gg. 4. 27, &c., and Process Engravings, for the
Chaucer Society's Publication* : Fir»t Series. ( 5 )
Ellesmere MS Part, of the 23 Ellesniere MS Miniatures. The Hengwrt MS,
Part VI, contains The Cauon's-Yeoman's Tale from the Lichfield MS.
LXXII. The Six-Text, Part IX, with colordCuts of 6 Tellers of Titles and 6 emble
matical Figures from the Cambridge Univers. MS Gg.4. 27; and Prof.
Hiram Corson's Index to the Subjects and Names of The Canterbury
Tales. [Issued in 1911.]
The issue for 1885, in the First Series, is,
LXX1II. The Harleian MS 7334 of The Canterbury Tales, with Woodcuts of 23
Tellers of Tales from the Ellesmere MS, &c.
LXXIV. Autotype Specimens of the chief Chaucer MSS. Pt IV. The Ellesmere.
The issue for 1886, in the First Series, is,
LXXV. Chaucer's Boece from the Cambridge University MS. li. 3. 21.
LXXV1. Chaucer's Boece from the Additional MS 10,340 in the British Museum,
as edited by the Rev. Dr. R. Morris for the E. E. Text Soc. in 18C8.
LXXVII. More Odd Texts of Chaucer's Minor Poems, containing, 1. The Com-
pleynte to Pile; 2. The Complaint of the Anelida and Arcite; 3. Truth ;
4. Lack of Stedfastness ; 5. Fortune; 6. Purse. Appendix: I. The Balade
of Pite. II. lioundels (Mercilesse Jieaute).
The issue for 1887, in the First Series, is,
LXXVIII. A Ryme-Index to Chaucer's Minor Poems, by Miss Isabel Marshall and
Miss Lela Porter, in Royal 4to for the Parallel-Text.
The issue for 1888, in the First Series, is,
LXXIX. A One-Text Print of Chaucer's Troiltis, from tb.eCampsallMSbef.1415 A.I>.
The issue for 1889, in the First Series, is,
LXXX. A Ryme-Index to Chaucer's Minor Poems, by Miss Isabel Marshall and
Miss Lela Porter, in 8vo for the One-Text print of the Minor Poems.
The issue for 1890, in the First Series, is,
LXXXI. Parallel-Text Specimens of all accessible tinprinted Chaucer MSS: The
Pardoner' s Prolog and Tale, edited by Prof. Zupitza, Ph.D. Part I, from
7 MSS : Cambridge Dd.4. 24, Christ-Church, Additional 5140, Devonshire,
Haistwell (or Egerton 3726), Ingilby, Northumberland : the Dd. Group.
LXXXII. The Romaunt of the Rose, from Thynne's print, 1532, ed. F. J. Furnivall.
[Issued in 1911.]
The issue for 1891, in the First Series, is,
LXXXIII. A Parallel text of/J7ie Momaunt of the Rose (of which the first 1705 lines
are most probably Chaucer's), from the unique MS at Glasgow, and its
French original, Le Roman de la Rose, edited by Dr Max Kaluza. Part I.
LXXXIV. A Rime-Index to Chaucer's Troiliis, by Prof. Skeat, Litt.D.
The issue for 1892, in the First Series, is,
LXXXV. Parallel-Text Specimens of all accessible uuprinted Chaucer MSS : The
Pardoner's Prolog and Tale, edited by Prof. Zupitza, Ph.D. Part II,
from 10 MSS.
The issue for 1893, in the First Series, is,
LXXX VI. Parallel-Text Specimens of all accessible imprinted Chaucer MSS : The
Pardoner's Prolog and Tale, edited by Prof. Zupitza, Ph.D. Part III,
from 6 MSS.
The issue for 1894, in the First Series, is,
LXXXV1I. A Parallel-Text of 3 more MSS of Chaucer's Troiltis, the St. John's
and Corpus, Cambridge, and Harl. 1239, Brit. Mus., put forth by Dr. F. J.
Furnivall. Part I, with a Note by G. C. Macaulay, M.A.
The issue for 1895, in the First Series, is,
LXXXV1II. A Parallel-Text of 3 more MSS of Chaucer's Troilus, Part II.
The issue for 1896, in the First Series, will be,
LXXXIX. Prof. McCorrnick's Introduction to Chaucer's Troilus, discussing its
MSS, its Text, its Metre and Grammar: 2nd Parallel-Texts, Part III.
The issue for 1897, in the First Series, is,
XC. Parallel-Text Specimens of all accessible tinprinted MSS: The Pardoner's
Prolog and Tale, Part IV, from 17 MSS, edited by the late Prof. Zupitza,
Ph.D., and Prof. John Koch, Ph.D.
The issue for 1898, in the First Series, is,
XCI. Parallel-Text Specimens, Part V: The Pardoner's Prolog and Tale, a Six-
Text, from 3 MSS and 3 black-letters, edited by Prof. John Koch, Ph.D.,
and Dr. F. J. Furnivall.
The issue for 1899, in the First Series, is,
XCII. Parallel-Text Specimens, Part VI : The Clerk's Tale, a Six-Text Print from
6 MSS not containing The Pardoner's Tale, put forth by Dr. F. J. Furnivall.
The issue for 1900, in the First Series, is,
XCIII. Parallel-Text Specimens, Part VII : The Clerk's Tale from the Phillipps
MS 8299 and the Longleat MS, put forth by Dr. F. J. Furnivall.
XCIV. Parallel-Text Specimens, Part VIII : The Pardoner's Prolog and Tale from
the Hodson MS 39, put forth by Dr. F. J. Furnivall with an Introduction
by Prof. John Koch, Ph.D.
6 j Chaucer Society's Publications : Jfyrst and Second Series.
The issue for 1901, in the First Series, is,
XCV. The Cambridge MS Dd. 4. 24. of the Canterbury Tales, completed by the
Egerton MS 2726 (the Haistwell MS), ed. F. J. Furnivall. Part I.
The issue for 1902, in the First Series, is,
XCVI. The Cambridge MS Dd. 4. 24. of the Canterbury Tales, completed by the
Egerton MS 2726 (the Haistwell MS), with woodcuts of the 23 Tellers of
The Canterbury Tales, from the Ellesmere MS — and of 6 Tellers of Canter
bury Tales, from the Cambridge MS Gg. 4. 27, ed. F. J. Furnivall.
Part II.
XCVII. Parallel-Text Specimens, Part IX : An Introduction to the eight Specimens
of Chaucer's Clerk's Tale, by Prof. Dr. John Koch.
(None for 1903-1910.)
SECOND SERIES.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1868 is,
1. Early English Pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakspere and Chaucer,
by Alexander J. Ellis, Esq., F.R.S. Part I. This work includes an amalgamation of
Prof. F. J. Child's two Papers on the use of the final -e by Chaucer (in T. Wright's ed.
of The Canterb. Tales) and by Gower (in Dr Pauli's ed.of the Confessio Amantis).
2. Essays on Chaucer, his Words and Works, Part I. : 1. Prof. Ebert's Review of
Sandras's Etude stir Chaucer, translated by J. W. van Rees Hoets, M.A. ; 2. A
13th-century Latin Treatise on the Chilindre (of the Shipman's Tale), edited by
Mr. E. Brock.
3. A Temporary Preface to the Society's Six-Text edition of Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales, attempting to show the right Order of the Tales, and the Days and Stages
of the Pilgrimage, &c. &c., by F. J. Furnivall, Esq., M.A.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1869 is,
4. Early English Pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakspere and Chaucer,
by Alexander J. Ellis, Esq., F.R.S. Part II.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1870 is,
5. Early English Pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakspere and Chaucer,
by Alexander J. Ellis, Esq., F.R.S. Part III.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1871 is.
6. Trial-Forewords to my Parallel-Text edition of Chaucer's Minor Poems for the
Chaucer Society (with a try to set Chaucer's Works in their right order of Time), by
Fredk. J. Furnivall. Part I.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1872 is,
7. Originals and Analogues of some of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Part I. 1. The
original of the Man of Law's Tale of Constance, from the French Chronicle of
Nicholas Trivet, Arundel MS 56, ab. 1340 A.D., collated with the later copy, ab. 1400,
in the National Library at Stockholm ; copied and edited, with a translation, by Mr.
Edmund Brock. 2. The Tale of " Merelaus the Emperor," englisht from the Gesta
Romanorum by Thomas Hoccleve, in Harl. MS 7333 ; and 3. Part of Matthew Paris's
Vita Offce Primi, both stories illustrating incidents in the Man of Law's Tale. 4. Two
French Fabliaux like the Reeve's Tale. 5. Two Latin Stories like the Friar's Tale.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1873 is,
8. Albertano of Brescia's Liber Consilii et Consolationis, A.D. 1246 (the Latin
source of the French original of Chaucer's Melibe), edited from the MSS, by Dr.
Thor Sundby.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1874 is,
9. Essays on Chaucer, his Words and Works, Part II.: 3. John of Hoveden's
Practica Chilindri, edited from the MS. with a translation, by Mr. E. Brock. 4.
Chaucer's use of the final -e, by Joseph Payne, Esq. 5. Mrs. E. Barrett-Browning
on Chaucer: being those parts of her review of the Book of the Poets, 1842, which
relate to him ; here reprinted by leave of Mr Robert Browning. 6. Professor
Bernhard ten Brink's critical edition of Chaucer's Compleynte to Pite.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1875 is,
10. Originals and Analogues of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Part II. 6. Alphon-
sus of Lincoln, a Story like the Prioress's Tale. 7. How Reynard caught Chanti
cleer, the source of the Nun's- Priest's Tale. 8. Two Italian Stories, and a Latin
one, like the Pardoner's Tale. 9. The Tale of the Priest's Bladder, a story like the
Summoner's Tale, being ' Li dis de le "Vescie a Prestre,' par Jakes de Basiw. 10.
Petrarch's Latin Tale of Griseldis (with Boccaccio's Story from which it was re- told) ,
the original of the Clerk's Tale. 11. Five Versions of a'Pear-tree Story like that in
the Merchant's Tale. 12. Four Versions of The Life of Saint Cecilia, the original
of the Second Nun's Tale. Edited by F. J. Furnivall.
11. Early English Pronunciation, with especial reference to Shakspere and Chau
cer, by Alexander J. Ellis, Esq., F.R.S. Part IV.
12. Life-Records of Chaucer, Part I, The Robberies of Chaucer by Richard Brere-
lay and others at Westminster, and at Hatcham, Surrey, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 1390,
with some Account of the Robbers, from the Enrolments in the Public Record Office,
by Walford D. Selby, Esq., of the Public Record Office.
Chaucer Society's Publication* : Second Series.
13. Thynne's Animadversions (1599) on Speght's Chaucers Workes, re-edited from
the unique MS, by Fredk. J. Furnivall, with fresh Lives of William and Francis
Thynne, and the only known fragment of The Pilgrim's Tale.
Of tlie Second Series, the issue for 1876 is,
14. Life- Records of Chaucer, Part II, The Household Ordinances of King
Edward II, June 1323 (as englisht by Francis Tato in March 1(501 A.D.), with ex
tracts from those of King Edward IV, to show the probable duties of C'liAi '
Valet or Yeoman of the Chamber, and Esquire, to Edward III of whose Household
Book no MS is known ; together with Chaucer's Oath as Controller of the Customs.
and an enlargd Autotype of Hoccleve's Portrait of Chaucer, ed. by F. J. Furnivall.
15. Originals and 'Analogues of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Part III. 13. The
Story of Constance, for the Man of Line's Tale. 14. The Boy killd by a Jew for
singing ' Gaude Maria,' an Analogue of the Prioress's Tale. 15. The Paris Beggar-
boy nmrderd by a Jew for singing 'Alma redemptoris mater!' an Analogue of th<;
Prioress's Tale ; with a Poem by Lydgate. Edited by F. J. Furnivall.
16. Essayson Chaucer, his Words and Works, Part III. 7. Chaucer's Prioress, her
Nun Chaplain and 3 Priests, illustrated from the Paper Survey of St Mary's Abbey,
Winchester, by F. J. Furnivall. 8. Alliteration in Chaucer, by Dr Paul Lindner.
9. Chaucer a Wicliflite; a critical Examination of the Parson's Tale, by Herr Hugo
Simon. 10. The sources of the Wife of Bath's Prologue : Chaucer not a borrower
from John of Salisbury, by the Rev. W. W. Woollcoinbe.
17. Supplementary Canterbury Tales: 1. The Tale of Eeryn, with a Prologue of
the merry Adventure of the Pardoner with a Tapster at Canterbury, re-edi:ed from
the Duke of Northumberland's unique MS, by Fredk. J. Furnivall. Prut I. the
Text, with Win. Smith's Map of Canterbury in 1588, now first engravd from his
unique MS., and Ogilby's Plan of the Road from London to Canterbury in 1675.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1878 (there was none in 1877) is,
18. Essays on Chaucer, //is Words and Works, Part IV. 11. On here and tlmrt
in Chaucer (his Pronunciation of the two e's), by Dr R. F. Weymouth ; 12 On «. An
Original Version of the Knight's Tale ; ft. the Date (13S1) and Personages of the
Parlament of Foules ; y. on Anelida and Arcyte, on Loliius, on Chaucer, and Boc
caccio, &c., by Dr. John Koch, with a fragment of a later Palamon and Ersyte from
the Dublin MSD. 4. 18.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1884 (none in 1879, '80, '81, '82, '83, '85) is,
19. Essayson Chaucer, his Words and Works. Part V: 13. Chaucer's P,i- loner: his
character illustrated by documents of bin time, by Dr J. J. Jusserand. 14. Why the
Romaunt of the Rose is not Chaucer's, by Prof. Skeat, M.A. 15. Chaucer's Sc/iipnnin,
and his Barge 'The Maudelayne,' by P. Q Karkeek, Esq. 16. Chaucer's 1'arson's
Tale compared with Frere Lorene's Soitime de rices et de 1'erfus, by Wilhelm Eilers,
Ph.D., 1882, englisht 1884. 17. On Chaucer's Reputed Works, by T. L. Kingtou-
Oliphant, M.A.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1886 is,
20. Originals and Analogs of the Canterbury Tales. Part IV. Eastern Analogs I,
by W. A. Clouston.
21. Life-Records of Chaucer, Part III, a. The Household book of Isabella wife of
Prince Lionel, third son of Edward III, in which the name of GuoiaaiEY CHAVC KH
first occurs; edited from the unique MS in the Brit. Mus., by Edward A. Bond,
LL.D., Chief Librarian, b. Chaucer as Forester of North Petherton, Somerset,
1390—1400. by Walford D. Selby, Esq. With an Appendix by Walter Rye, Esq.,
on I, Chaucer's Grandfather; II, Chaucer's connection with Lynn and Norfolk.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1887 is,
22. Originals and Analogs of the Canterbury Tales, Part V (completing the
volume). Eastern Analogs, II, by W. A. Clouston.
23. John Lane's Continuation of Chaucer' s Squire's Tale, edited by F. J. Furnivall
from the 2 MSS in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1616, 1630. Part I.
24. Supplementary Canterbury Tales: 2, The Tale of Beryn, Part II. Forewords
by F. J. Furnivall, Notes by F. Vipan, M.A. &c., and Glossary by W. G. Stone ;
with an Essay on Analogs of the Tale, by W. A. Clouston.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1888 (wrongly markt No. 27 for 1889) is,
25. Early English Pronunciation, with especial reference to Shak>pcro and
Chaucer, by Alexander J. Ellis, Esq., F.R.S. Part V, and last.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1889 is,
26. John Lane s Continuation of Chaucer s Squire's Tale. Part II, with an
on the Magical Elements in the Squire's Tale, and Analogues, by W. A. Clouston.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1890 is,
27. The Chronology of Chaucer's Writings, by John Koch, Ph.D., Berlin.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1891 is,
28. Observations on the Language of Chaucer's Troilus (a Study of its MSS, their
words and forms), by Prof. George Lyman Kittredge, M.A.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1892 is,
29. Essays on Chaucer, his Words and Works, Part VI, by Prof. Cowell, LL.D.,
Alois Brandl, Ph.D., Rev. Prof. Skeat, Litt.D., and W. M. Rossetti.
S (Jhaueer Sociaty't Publications. E. E. T. S.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1898 (none in 1893-97) is,
30. Jfotes on the Road from London to Canterbury, ed. H. Littlehales, Esq.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1900 (none in 1899) is,
31. The Portraits of Geoffrey Chaucer. By M. H. Spielmann.
32. Life-Records of Chaucer, Part IV, Enrolments and Documents from the Public
Record Office, the City of London Town-Clerk's Office, &c., ed. R. E. G. Kirk, Esq.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1901 is,
33. R, Brat/trait's Comments on 2 Tales of Chaucer, 1665, ed. Miss C. Spurgeon.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1902 is,
34. Supplementary Canterbury Tales : 3, A new Ploughman's Tale, being Hoc-
cleve's englisht Legend of the Virgin and her Sleeveless Garment, from the Christ-
church and Ashburnham MSS, edited by A. Beatty, M.A., Wisconsin.
35. The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale, a critical edition by John Koch.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1903 is,
36. Analogues of Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrimage, the 4-days' Journey from
London to Canterbury and back of the Aragonese Ambassadors, 31 July — 3 Aug. 1415,
etc., etc., ed. R. E. G. Kirk and F. J. Furnivall. (Publishtin 1906.)
37- The Development and Chronology of Chaucer's Works, by John S. P. Tatlock,
Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English in the University of Michigan. (Issued in 1907.)
38. T«t Evolution of the Canterbury Tales, by Prof. W. W. Skeat, Litt.D. (1907.
Of thr Second Series, the issue for 1904 (publisht in 1907) is,
39. Studies in Chaucer's Hous of fame, by Wilbur Owen Sypherd, Ph.D.,
Professor of English in Delaware College, U.S.A.
40. The Griffin and Development of the Story of Troilus and Criseyde, by Karl
Young, Ph.D.'
41. The Harleian MS 733/t and Revision of the Canterbury Tales, by Prof.
Tatlock, Ph.D.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1905 (jaiblisht in 1908) is,
42. The Date of Chaucer's Troilus and other Chaucer matters, by Prof. George
Lyman Kittredge, LL.D., Litt.D.
43. The Eight-Text Edition of the Canterbury Tales ; with especial reference to
the Harleian MS 7S3/,, by Prof. W. W. Skeat, Litt.D.
. 44. The Syntax of the Infinitive in Chaucer, by John Samuel Kenyon, Ph.D.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1906 (publisht in 1910-1) is,
45. A Study of the Miracles of Our Lady, told by Chaucer's Prioress, by Prof.
Carleton Brown, Ph.D.
46. Lydgate's Siege of Thebes, ed. from the MSS by Prof. Axel Erdmimn, Ph.D.
Part I, the Text (1911>: Part II will be publisht by the E.E.T.S.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1907 (to be publisht in 1912) will be,
47- Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticisms and Allusions, 1362-1900 A.I). , by
Miss Caroline F. E. Spurgeon, Docteur de 1'Universite de Paris, nod Miss Evelyn
Fox. Part I.
Of the Second Series, the issue for 1908 (to be publisht in 1912) will be,
48. Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticisms and Allusion*, 1362 to 1900 A.D., by
Miss Caroline F. E. Spuracon. Docteur de 1'Universite de Paris, arid Miss Evelyn
Fox. Part II.
Among the Texts and Chaucer Essays, &c., preparing for the Society are: —
Further Studies in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, by Prof. Tatlock, Ph.D.
A Comparative Study of all the M&$ of the Canterbury Tales, by Professor
George Stevenson, B.A.
Entries concerning Thomas Chaucer, compiled by R. E. G. Kirk, Esq.
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