A dronke man wot wel he hath an hous,
But he not[I-8] which the righte wey is thider.
(_Knightes Tale_, vol. ii. p. 39.)
_Ryȝt as a dronke man not nat[I-9] by whiche paþe he may retourne
home to hys house._
(Chaucer’s Trans., p. 67.)
_Sed velut ebrius, domum quo tramite revertatur, ignorat._
(Boeth., lib. iii. pr. 2.)
[Footnote I-8: The Harl. MS. reads _not nat_, to the confusion of
the metre.]
[Footnote I-9: = ne wot nat = knows not.]