Footnote 145:
The complete “texte” in H. runs:—
Encor se veulx estre des noz,
Ressembler te couuient Minos,
Tout soit il iusticier et maistres
Denfer et de tous li estres.
Car se tu te veulx auancier,
Estre te couuient iusticier,
Autrement de porter heaume
Nes digne ne tenir royaume.
Footnote 146:
En Crete, H.
Footnote 147:
Fierte, H.
Footnote 148:
De adventu Domini Sermo iii. (Migne, clxxxiii. 45), but the passage is
not literally translated.
Footnote 149:
Sa non puissance, H.
Footnote 150:
Chastisyng in chastisyng, MS.; garde et discipline, garde en le
gardant de mal faire et discipline en le chastiant se il a mal fait,
H.
Footnote 151:
Prov. xxi. 12, 15.
Footnote 152:
Apres te mire en Perseus, H., and so below; _cf._ Ovid, Met. iv., 610
sq.
Footnote 153:
Belue, H.; monstre, Wyer.
Footnote 154:
Chose couuenable, H.
Footnote 155:
_Sc._ won; il acquist, H.
Footnote 156:
_Sc._ should have; deuourer la deuoit, H.
Footnote 157:
_Sc._ flyeth; qui vole, H.
Footnote 158:
Many, MS.
Footnote 159:
Omitted in MS.; le porte, H.
Footnote 160:
Sermo ccclv., de vita et moribus clericorum (Migne, xxxix. 1569).
Footnote 161:
A bien viure, H.
Footnote 162:
Pour soy, H.; conscientia tibi, fama proximo tuo, S. Aug. The
translator evidently read “foy.”
Footnote 163:
Eccl. xli. 15.
Footnote 164:
_Sc._ the planet Jupiter; Joyus, MS.; de iouis les condicions, H.
Footnote 165:
Jābir ibn Aflah, an Arab astronomer of uncertain date, whose work on
Astronomy was published in Latin, in nine books, at Nuremberg in 1534.
A 15th century MS. of it is in the British Museum, Harley MS. 625.
Footnote 166:
Perhaps Nicholas of Lynne, a Carmelite who lived in the latter part of
the 14th century, and whose astronomical tables were used by Chaucer
in his “Astrolabe.” Among other works he wrote tracts “de natura
Zodiaci” and “de Planetarum domibus” (Tanner, _Bibliotheca_, p. 346).
Footnote 167:
Et est figuree a la compleccion sanguine, H.
Footnote 168:
_Sc._ Pythagoras.
Footnote 169:
Doulce et humaine, H.
Footnote 170:
A Nepocian, H. The passage does not appear to be among the works of
St. Gregory, nor in St. Jerome’s epistle to Nepotianus.
Footnote 171:
Matt. v. 7.
Footnote 172:
Traueilleux, H.
Footnote 173:
_Sc._ Hermes Trismegistus.
Footnote 174:
An unintelligible corruption; fist lange deuenir deable, H. and other
Fr. MSS.; doth [make] the aungell to become a devyll, Wyer; superbia
est per quam angelus cecidit, per quam Adam de naturæ suæ dignitate
dejectus est, Cass. Exp. in Psalterium (Migne, lxx. 843).
Footnote 175:
Tethe, MS.; la mort, H.
Footnote 176:
_Sc._ vein; la veine, H.
Footnote 177:
Ps. xxx. 7.
Footnote 178:
_Sc._ drove; le desherita et chaca, H.
Footnote 179:
_Sc._ ere; peser la chose ains quil donne, H.
Footnote 180:
Ye, MS.
Footnote 181:
_Sc._ note; peuent notter tous sages, H.
Footnote 182:
Moralia, xxvii. 3 (Migne, lxxvi. 401).
Footnote 183:
Ps. xviii. 10.
Footnote 184:
No such work appears under the name of Cassiodorus.
Footnote 185:
Esdras iii. 12.
Footnote 186:
The translator, not Christine de Pisan, is responsible for making
Phœbe masculine.
Footnote 187:
Ep. ad Simplicianum (Migne, xvi. 1085).
Footnote 188:
Ne se plunge point, H.; non tristibus mergitur, St. Ambr.
Footnote 189:
Eccl. xxvii. 12.
Footnote 190:
Folowynge, MS. There is some confusion here in the translation, _cf._
en ce monde et que le bon esperit par son exemple [pot bien] ensuiuir
son bon pere Ihesu Crist et batailler contre les vices, H.
Footnote 191:
Ephes. vi. 12.
Footnote 192:
Soyes aourne de faconde, H. The translator seems to have
misinterpreted “faconde,” eloquence, speech, as “falchion.”
Footnote 193:
_Sc._ old; ce tapprendra Mercurius, H.
Footnote 194:
Qui vont deuant, H.
Footnote 195:
Luke x. 16.
Footnote 196:
_Sc._ By thy mother enough shall be assigned to thee; te liurera assez
ta mere, H. The MS. reads “modus,” and in the next line “bater”
(amere, H.).
Footnote 197:
Cuir-bouilli, leather boiled and moulded, while soft, into the
required shape.
Footnote 198:
No exposition of the Creed appears among the works of Cassiodorus.
Footnote 199:
_Sc._ light; lumiere, H.
Footnote 200:
Hebr. xi. 6.
Footnote 201:
Sittyng, MS., and so also below.
Footnote 202:
There seems to be some confusion here between Pallas the goddess and
Pallas son of Lycaon and reputed founder of Pallantium, in Arcadia.
Footnote 203:
? join; il doit aiouster sagece a cheualerie, H.
Footnote 204:
The whiche vertue, MS.
Footnote 205:
Hebrews vi. 18.
Footnote 206:
_Sc._ Penthesileia, queen of the Amazons.
Footnote 207:
Dont si noble voix est semee, H.
Footnote 208:
_Sic_, the first letter being of course the Fr. “d’.”
Footnote 209:
Expos. in Ps. xii. (Migne, lxx. 100).
Footnote 210:
Soubz la quelle [pluye] germe la bonne voulente, H.
Footnote 211:
Inimicis benevola, bonis suis superans malos, Cass.
Footnote 212:
1 Corinth, xiii. 4.
Footnote 213:
Narcissus, whose story is in Ovid, Met. iii. 341 sq.
Footnote 214:
Se esleua en si grant orgueil, H.
Footnote 215:
Cest a entendre loultrecuidance de lui meisme ou il se mira, H.
Footnote 216:
Thi, MS.; est sa vie contenue, H. The translator seems to have read
“toute nue.”
Footnote 217:
Job xx. 6, 7.
Footnote 218:
Wrongly translated. H. reads:
Athamas plain de grant rage
La deesse de forcennage
Fist estrangler ces (_sc._ ses) .ii. enfans.
Pour ce grant yre te deffens.
The story (Ovid, Met. iv. 420 sq.), which is introduced again further
on (p. 112), is much confused here. It is briefly as follows. Athamas
by command of Hera married the divine Nephele, and had by her Phrixus
and Helle. He was, however, more enamoured of Ino, who bore to him
Learchus and Melicertes. Nephele in her anger having returned to
heaven, Ino tried to get rid of her rival’s children. For this purpose
she caused a famine by roasting the seed-corn before it was sown, and
then bribed the messengers whom Athamas sent to Delphi for an oracle
to bring back word that Phrixus must be sacrificed. Nephele, however,
carried off Phrixus and his sister on the ram with the golden fleece,
while Athamas, driven mad by Hera, killed his son Learchus, and Ino
threw herself into the sea with Melicertes.
Footnote 219:
_Sc._ sodden; semer le ble cuit, H.
Footnote 220:
Hys, MS.
Footnote 221:
He, MS.
Footnote 222:
Yno, MS.; la deesse iuno, H.
Footnote 223:
A hole in the roof for the escape of smoke, here perhaps used for the
hearth; le sueil, H.
Footnote 224:
_Sic_, meaning apparently “warring”; but from the reading in H., “a
pou ne se entretuoyent,” it is perhaps a mistake for “near-hand,”
_sc._ nearly, almost.
Footnote 225:
Quant la deesse virent tant espouentable, H.
Footnote 226:
Sic ira corrumpit cor, si in alium diem duraverit, S. Aug. Epist. ccx.
(Migne, xxxiii. 958).
Footnote 227:
Ephes. iv. 26.
Footnote 228:
Aglauros or Agraulos, daughter of Cecrops. Hermes changed her into a
stone for barring his access to her sister Herse (Ovid, Met. ii. 737
sq.).
Footnote 229:
Dey, MS.; seche, H.
Footnote 230:
_Sic_, probably for “too feloun a spotte”; trop est villeine tache et
contre gentillece, H.
Footnote 231:
De Genesi ad litteram, xi. 13 (Migne, xxxiv. 436).
Footnote 232:
Eccl. xiv. 8, but the Vulg. has “lividi.”
Footnote 233:
No, MS.; ne soyes pas lonc ne prolice, H.
Footnote 234:
For, MS.
Footnote 235:
_Sc._ the eye of Polyphemus.
Footnote 236:
Bedeisus, MS.; no doubt a corruption of “_Bede sur_ les Prouerbes,” H.
The reference is apparently to Bede’s Expositio super Parabolas, ii.
20 (Migne, xci. 995).
Footnote 237:
Prov. xxi. 5.
Footnote 238:
_Sc._ frogs. This story of Latona is from Ovid, Met. vi. 313 sq.
Footnote 239:
Cuidoit, H.
Footnote 240:
Palu, H; maresse, Wyer.
Footnote 241:
Perhaps in error for St. Bernard, Liber de modo bene vivendi, xliv.
(Migne, clxxxiv. 1266).
Footnote 242:
Eccl. xiv. 9.
Footnote 243:
_Sc._ manners; car ses condicions sont ordes, H.
Footnote 244:
_Sc._ Hippocrates, whose “dictum” was that “sanitas consistit .... non
in replendo corpus cibis et potibus” (Add. MS. 16,906, f. 11).
Footnote 245:
Moralia, xxx. 18 (Migne, lxxvi. 556).
Footnote 246:
Philipp, iii. 19.
Footnote 247:
The scene of the story was in Cyprus. Cidonie (Cydonie, H.) apparently
comes from a misunderstanding of Ovid, who says of Pygmalion,
“Collocat hanc stratis concha Sidonide tinctis” (Met. x. 267).
Footnote 248:
En ot pitie. H.
Footnote 249:
Omitted in MS.; plusieurs, H.
Footnote 250:
Que il en lait a suiure, H.; leue to ensue, Wyer.
Footnote 251:
Apthalin, H.; but it is doubtful who is meant. The name occurs in the
“Dicta Philosophorum,” but not with this “dictum.”
Footnote 252:
2 Pet. ii. 13.
Footnote 253:
The assignment of a particular clause in the Creed to each of the
Apostles appears in a sermon printed among the spurious works of St.
Augustine (Migne, xxxix. 2190).
Footnote 254:
To, MS.
Footnote 255:
_Sc._ to plough.
Footnote 256:
Car deuant semoient les gainages sans labourer, H. “Gaineyer” is for
“gaigneur,” a husbandman.
Footnote 257:
Lawde, MS.; ainsi que la terre est abandonnee et large donnarresse, H.
Footnote 258:
Qui tant nous a largement donne de ses haulx biens, H.
Footnote 259:
Isis, in her original character as wife of Osiris and inventor of the
cultivation of corn.
Footnote 260:
Toutes vertus antes et plantes
En toy, comme Ysis fait les plantes
Et tous les grains fructifier;
Ainsi dois tu ediffier.
So H., where “antes,” _sc._ antez, entez, is from “enter, placer,
faire entrer” (Godefroy, _s.v._).
Footnote 261:
_Sc._ Hermes.
Footnote 262:
What, MS.
Footnote 263:
Vn roy, H.
Footnote 264:
Oan, MS., and so below.
Footnote 265:
Pastours, H.
Footnote 266:
_Sc._ mole; comme la tauppe, H.
Footnote 267:
Lierres, _sc._ larron, H.
Footnote 268:
And nede, MS.; au besoing, H.
Footnote 269:
_Sc._ Theseus and Peirithous, who invaded the lower world in order to
carry off Persephone.
Footnote 270:
There is some confusion in this passage; se Hercules, qui leur
compaignon yere, ne les eust secourus, qui tant y fist, _etc._, H.
Footnote 271:
_Sc._ chains; chayennes, H.
Footnote 272:
_Sc._ Cadmus, who founded Thebes and slew the dragon which guarded the
neighbouring well of Ares, and who also invented letters.
Footnote 273:
_Sc._ won; gaigna, H.
Footnote 274:
Lestude y mist, H.
Footnote 275:
Plus quen nulle autre auoir, H.
Footnote 276:
Et du bien largement y prendre, H. The strange word “theryng” is
probably nothing more than “therein.”
Footnote 277:
See Ovid, Met. i. 583 sq. The source of the statement that Io invented
letters is doubtful. Possibly it rests only on the two lines (_ib._
649):
Littera pro verbis quam pes in pulvere duxit
Corporis indicium mutati triste peregit.
Footnote 278:
Les vertus de iupiter, H.
Footnote 279:
Tho, MS.
Footnote 280:
_Sc._ note.
Footnote 281:
_Sc._ cloud; en vne nue, H.
Footnote 282:
_Sc._ with; surprendre ou fait, H.
Footnote 283:
_Sc._ watched; la gaitoit, H.
Footnote 284:
_Sc._ through.
Footnote 285:
_Sc._ Pyrrhus.
Footnote 286:
Which, MS.; vn sage, H.
Footnote 287:
_Sc._ gods; les dieux, H.
Footnote 288:
A wrong translation; tres louable chose est seruir dieu et sainctifier
ses sains, H.; tous ses sens humains, G. de Tign.
Footnote 289:
Atropos, one of the Fates, here represented as masculine; a Atropos et
a son dart, H.
Footnote 290:
Tout crestien, H.
Footnote 291:
The, MS.; la prouision, H.
Footnote 292:
Bellerophon, whose story is here confused with that of Hippolytus by
making Anteia his stepmother.
Footnote 293:
Il mieulx ama eslire la mort, H.
Footnote 294:
Decre, MS.; latrie, H.; latria, Wyer; eo ritu ac servitute quæ græce
λατρεία dicitur et uni vero Deo debetur, Aug. de Civitate Dei, vi.
præf. (Migne, xli. 173).
Footnote 295:
Matt. iv. 10.
Footnote 296:
Memnon, the Ethiopian, whose father Tithonus was half-brother to
Priam, being son of Laomedon by a different mother.
Footnote 297:
Leust occis, H.
Footnote 298:
Trwee, MS.
Footnote 299:
“Rabion” in the “Dicta Philosophorum” (Add. MS. 16,906, f. 9b), where
the sentence is “Multiplica amicos qui sunt medicamina animarum.” The
Museum MSS. of G. de Tignonville’s French version and of the English
versions of Earl Rivers and Scrope read “Sabion” or “Zabion.”
Footnote 300:
_Cf._ Sermo clxxx. (Migne, xxxviii. 972).
Footnote 301:
_Sc._ false.
Footnote 302:
Exod. xx. 7.
Footnote 303:
_Sc._ menacings; de grant menace, nyce et fole, H.
Footnote 304:
Et en Leomedon te mire, H.
Footnote 305:
Enuoya messages laidement congeer, H. The word “bostus” is apparently
connected with “bost, boast,” meaning “boastful” or “threatening.”
Footnote 306:
_Sc._ well weighed; moult pesee, H.
Footnote 307:
Et brisier commandement soit autressi oultrecuidance, H.
Footnote 308:
Isai. i. 16, 17.
Footnote 309:
Les palais des parens, H.
Footnote 310:
_Sc._ cracked; creuee, H.
Footnote 311:
_Sc._ brightness; la leur, H.
Footnote 312:
Le mordant de sa ceinture ficha par la creueure, H.
Footnote 313:
Vn morier blanc, H., _sc._ a white mulberry, _cf._ Arbor ibi, niveis
uberrima pomis, Ardua morus, erat, Ovid, Met. iv. 89.
Footnote 314:
These words are at the bottom of f. 34b, after which there is a lacuna
of a whole quire. The story in H. goes on “le lyon qui sus ot vomy
lentraille dune beste quil ot deuouree. Oultre mesure fu grande la
douleur de Piramus, qui cuida samie deuouree des fieres bestes; donc
apres moult piteux reclaims soccist de son espee. Tisbee sailli du
buisson, mais quant elle entent les sanglos de son ami qui mouroit et
elle voit lespee et le sanc, adonc par grant douleur sus son ami chay,
qui a elle parler ne pot, et apres plusieurs grans plains, regrais et
pasmoisons soccist de la mesmes espee.” The mythological personages
dealt with in the missing pages are Æsculapius, Achilles, Busiris,
Leander, Helen, Aurora, Pasiphae, Adrastus, Cupid, Corinis, and Juno.
Footnote 315:
The preceding “texte” and “glose” in H. are as follows:—
De Iuno ia trop ne te chaille,
Se le noyel mieulx que leschaille
Donneur desires a auoir,
Car mieulx vault proece quauoir.
Iuno est la deesse dauoir selon les fables des poetes, et pour ce que
auoir et richece couuient auoir et acquerir a grant soing et traueil
et que tel soing peut destourner a honneur acquerre et comme honneur
et vaillance soit plus louable que richeces de tant comme la noyel
vault mieulx que leschaille, _etc._
Footnote 316:
Slelle, MS.
Footnote 317:
_Sc._ one hump on the back.
Footnote 318:
Matt. xix. 24.
Footnote 319:
Amphiaraus, hero and seer, joint king of Argos with Adrastus, whose
sister Eriphyle he married. Against his own opinion he was induced by
his wife to join the expedition of the Seven against Thebes.
Footnote 320:
_Sc._ Solon, but the sentence is not under his name in the “Dicta
Philosophorum.”
Footnote 321:
What St. Gregory really says is, “Sicut carni vestræ, ne deficiat,
cibos quotidie præbetis, sic mentis vestræ quotidiana alimenta bona
sunt opera. Cibo corpus pascitur, pio opere spiritus nutriatur,” Hom.
v. in Evang. (Migne, lxxvi. 1092).
Footnote 322:
Worde ye here the which, MS.
Footnote 323:
Matt. iv. 4.
Footnote 324:
See p. 19.
Footnote 325:
Ne chose dont vn puist _presumer_ folie, H.
Footnote 326:
_Sc._ discretion; lente de parler, H.
Footnote 327:
Couuercle, H.
Footnote 328:
Fro, MS.; qui garde sa lengue il garde son ame, car la mort et la vie
sont en la puissance de la lengue, H.
Footnote 329:
Ps. xxxiii. 14.
Footnote 330:
The “texte” in H. is:—
Croy la corneille et son conseil.
Jamais ne soyes en esueil
De male nouuelle apporter;
Le plus seur est sen depporter.
Footnote 331:
He, MS.
Footnote 332:
Hym, MS.
Footnote 333:
Literally translated, this sentence should read: “But she (the crow)
dissuaded him from going by giving him an example of herself, who for
a like case had been driven from the house of Pallas,” etc. See Ovid,
Met. ii. 542.
Footnote 334:
Se espart, H.
Footnote 335:
Prov. ii. 10, 11.
Footnote 336:
Which, MS.
Footnote 337:
Ganymedes was son of Tros and brother of Ilus and Assaracus. His
well-known story is here confused with that of Hyacinthus, who was
accidentally killed in a game of discus with Apollo (Ovid, Met. x.
184).
Footnote 338:
Prov. xxiv. 6.
Footnote 339:
_Sc._ sheep.
Footnote 340:
_Sc._ wholly; du tout, H.
Footnote 341:
Descongnoissant et desloyaulx a celle qui trop de bien lui ot fait, H.
Footnote 342:
Comme vn vent sec, H.
Footnote 343:
Sap. xvi. 29.
Footnote 344:
Hym, MS.; ne la regardes, H.
Footnote 345:
Perseus, H.
Footnote 346:
Elsewhere it is Poseidon who was Medusa’s lover—Hanc pelagi rector
templo vitiasse Minervæ Dicitur (Ovid, Met. iv. 797). Her hair alone
was changed into serpents.
Footnote 347:
His his, MS.
Footnote 348:
“Holy chirche” is the translator’s addition, not being in H.
Footnote 349:
Le pouoir de plus mal faire, H.
Footnote 350:
He holde, MS.
Footnote 351:
_Sc._ shield.
Footnote 352:
Crisostome, H. and other Fr. MSS.
Footnote 353:
Comme cest impossible que le feu arde en leaue, aussi est ce
impossible que compunccion, _etc._, H. The translator’s omission of
the words in brackets was no doubt due to the repetition of
“impossible que.”
Footnote 354:
Ps. cxxv. (cxxvi.) 5. This is the only instance in which the quotation
at the end of an allegory is filled in.
Footnote 355:
Es liens Vulcanus et surpris, H.
Footnote 356:
That þat, MS.
Footnote 357:
ii^o (_sc._ two, deux), MS.; ala querre les autres dieux, H.
Footnote 358:
Que tel sen rioit, qui bien voulsist en semblable meffait estre
encheut, H.
Footnote 359:
Darguemie, _sc._ alchemy, H.
Footnote 360:
Read “But to our purpose it seith.” The translator has misread “Mais”
in the original as “Mars”; mais a nostre propos veult dire, H.
Footnote 361:
Que en tel cas ne soit surpris par oubli, H.
Footnote 362:
_Sc._ love.
Footnote 363:
Myght, MS.
Footnote 364:
Coniecture, H.
Footnote 365:
1 Pet. v. 8.
Footnote 366:
Tomyris, queen, not of the Amazons or “Femeny,” but of the Scythian
Massagetæ (Herod. i. 205).
Footnote 367:
Despris, _sc._ mépris, H.
Footnote 368:
_Sc._ ambushments.
Footnote 369:
Ne hayr, H.
Footnote 370:
De coenobiorum institutis, xii. 31 (Migne. xlix. 472).
Footnote 371:
Eccl. iii. 20.
Footnote 372:
Ne laisses ton sens _au_orter, H.
Footnote 373:
Sanuie (_sc._ s’ennuie) tost, H.
Footnote 374:
Prov. xxix. 15, somewhat corrupted in H.
Footnote 375:
_Sc._ mad, furious; du geant enragez, H.
Footnote 376:
The story was that Acis, son of Faunus, was beloved by the nymph
Galatea, and that the Cyclop Polyphemus, furious with jealousy,
crushed him beneath a huge rock (Ovid, Met. xiii. 750).
Footnote 377:
Qui Acis estoit nommez, H. The mistranslation in the text is
inexplicable.
Footnote 378:
Adonc fu [le geant] surpris de soubdaine rage et tellement escroula la
roche que tout en fu Axis acrauentez (_sc._ ecrasé, brisé), H.
Footnote 379:
Nymphe, H.
Footnote 380:
Se ficha en la mer, H.
Footnote 381:
Sap. v. 9.
Footnote 382:
Peleus, to whose marriage with Thetis all the gods were invited except
Eris or Discord.
Footnote 383:
For his judgment see below, p. 83.
Footnote 384:
_Sc._ then; adonc, H.
Footnote 385:
_Sc._ weaning; a qui il cuidoit estre filz, H.
Footnote 386:
Qui conduisoit les dames, H.
Footnote 387:
_Sc._ hates; ou croiscent les haynes, H.
Footnote 388:
Cassiodore sus le Psaultier, H.
Footnote 389:
Rom. xiii. 13.
Footnote 390:
Iff thou aniy, MS.; _Sc._ tu las a qui que soit fait, H.
Footnote 391:
See above, p. 51.
Footnote 392:
Lawde, MS.
Footnote 393:
_Sc._ avenged.
Footnote 394:
Joel ii. 13.
Footnote 395:
Damours affoles, H.
Footnote 396:
Semele, whom Hera deceived in the form of her old nurse Beroe (Ovid,
Met. iii. 260).
Footnote 397:
Ne perceyued, MS. The translator misunderstood the original, _cf._
dist a celle, qui garde ne sen prenoit de la deceuance, que de rien ne
sestoit ancore apperceue de lamour, mais quant elle seroit auecques
lui, _etc._, H.
Footnote 398:
La voulsist accoller, H.
Footnote 399:
Of hir, MS.; de feu, H.
Footnote 400:
Ou liure des brebis, H., _Sc._ Sermo xlvii. de ovibus, in Ezech.
xxxiv. 17–31 (Migne, xxxviii. 303).
Footnote 401:
A noz freres enfermes, H.; infirmo fratri, St. Aug.
Footnote 402:
Tit. ii. 7.
Footnote 403:
Prov. xxxi. 27.
Footnote 404:
Thereoff, MS.
Footnote 405:
Arachne, who challenged Athena to compete with her in weaving and was
changed by the goddess into a spider (Ovid, Met. vi. 1–145).
Footnote 406:
The, MS.
Footnote 407:
Sap. v. 8.
Footnote 408:
_Sc._ Adonis.
Footnote 409:
Vn damoisel moult cointe, H.
Footnote 410:
According to the “Dicta Philosophorum” Sedechias “primus fuit per quem
nutu Dei lex precepta fuit et sapientia intellecta” (Add. MS. 16,906,
f. 1).
Footnote 411:
2 Pet. ii. 19.
Footnote 412:
Apoc. xiii. 7.
Footnote 413:
De lagait (l’agait, _sc._ ruse, artifice), H. The translator seems to
have read “la gent.”
Footnote 414:
Luke xi. 21.
Footnote 415:
To follow? Dinstrumens _suiure_ nas mestier, H.
Footnote 416:
_Sc._ running; courans, H.
Footnote 417:
_Sc._ fierce; fiers, H.
Footnote 418:
Et moins sent les molestes dauarice qui ne voit point les riches du
monde, H.
Footnote 419:
Ps. ci. 8.
Footnote 420:
Apulia and Calabria.
Footnote 421:
This is an assumption from the fact that the Greek colonies of South
Italy had the name of Magna Græcia. Hellas originally was the district
of Phthiotis in Thessaly, where the Myrmidones dwelt.
Footnote 422:
Especes, H.; quatuor sunt species quibus omnis tumor arrogantium
demonstratur, S. Greg. Moralia, xxiii. 6 (Migne, lxxvi. 258).
Footnote 423:
Prov. viii. 13.
Footnote 424:
Actæon, changed into a stag by Artemis (Ovid, Met. iii. 155).
Footnote 425:
Nymphes, H.
Footnote 426:
Ignorence, H., and so the “Dis des Philosophes.”
Footnote 427:
Matt. iii. 2.
Footnote 428:
See above, p. 74.
Footnote 429:
Either Charon is meant, or Acheron, as the eponym of the river of
Hades so named.
Footnote 430:
Miraculeuse ne merueillable qui est appelle tempter Dieu, H.
Footnote 431:
Jas. iv. 3.
Footnote 432:
_Sc._ assay, test; Lessay con fist a Achilles, H.
Footnote 433:
En labbaye la deesse Vesta, H.
Footnote 434:
Pyrrhus, his son by Deidameia, daughter of Lycomedes of Scyros.
Footnote 435:
Aneles, guimphes, conroyes et de tous ioyaulx, H.; quayntyses, prety
japes and jewelles, Wyer.
Footnote 436:
Make, MS.
Footnote 437:
Cointeries mignotes, H.
Footnote 438:
Leginon, H.; Longinon, Add. MS. 16,906, f. 51b; Loginon, Roy. MS. 19
B. iv. f. 60.
Footnote 439:
Le vaillant nest conqneu que en guerre, G. de Tign. (Roy. MS. 19 B.
iv. f. 64).
Footnote 440:
Attendent la gloire pardurable en loyer, H.
Footnote 441:
2 Paralip. xv. 7.
Footnote 442:
_Sc._ fairies; vne nymphe, H.
Footnote 443:
The letters in brackets have been torn away with the edge of the leaf.
Footnote 444:
Texillus, Dicta Phil. (Add. MS. 16,906, f. 56).
Footnote 445:
1 Joh. ii. 15.
Footnote 446:
_Sc._ knowledge; de sauoir, H.
Footnote 447:
_Sc._ riches; dauoir, H.
Footnote 448:
See above, p. 66.
Footnote 449:
_Sc._ pass, surpass.
Footnote 450:
Ioliuete, H.
Footnote 451:
Omitted in MS.; les Manichees, H.
Footnote 452:
It is þerfor it is, MS.
Footnote 453:
Matt. vii. 1, 2; ut non judicemini, Vulg.
Footnote 454:
_Sc._ snares; les tours de fortune sont comme engins, H.
Footnote 455:
_Sc._ Boethius; Boece, H.
Footnote 456:
Les quieulx addicions ne prestent point les choses ou les mondains
mettent leur felicite, H.
Footnote 457:
Isai. iii. 12.
Footnote 458:
_Sic_, ? tasteth; gouster, H.
Footnote 459:
Luke x. 42.
Footnote 460:
Cephalus, who killed his wife Procris in the way described (Ovid, Met.
vii. 836).
Footnote 461:
Glauellot, H.
Footnote 462:
Matt. vii. 3.
Footnote 463:
1 Cor. x. 13.
Footnote 464:
Au dieu qui dort et fait songer, H.
Footnote 465:
That may propirly that may speke, MS.; qui proprement en puisse parler
quoyque les expositeurs en dient, H.
Footnote 466:
Tyme, MS.
Footnote 467:
Eccl. ii. 4.
Footnote 468:
Alcyone, or Halcyone, wife of Ceyx, whose story is in Ovid, Met. xi.
410.
Footnote 469:
For, MS.
Footnote 470:
Dedens la nef se gita, H.
Footnote 471:
Colus, MS.
Footnote 472:
The fable was that for seven days before and after the winter
solstice, when the Halcyon was breeding, the sea remained calm.
Footnote 473:
See the “Dis des Philosophes” (Roy. MS. 19 B. iv. f. 60).
Footnote 474: