[Footnote 31: This line has no warrant from Chaucer.]
[Footnote 32: Here followed a bad couplet, which Pope afterwards
omitted:
Expensive dainties load the plenteous boards,
The best luxurious Italy affords.]
[Footnote 33: Joab, the leader of the Israelites in battle, blew the
trumpet, as is recorded in the Bible, to gather them together. Theodomas
is thought by Tyrwhitt to be a character in some fictitious history
which was popular in the days of Chaucer.]
[Footnote 34: Chaucer says that the bed was blessed by the priest, and
the form used on these occasions may be seen in the old Latin service
books.]
[Footnote 35: Dryden's Sigismonda and Guiscardo: