25. Literally--'There is no doubt that thou art not the cause'; meaning,
'Without doubt, thou art the cause.' _Misericorde_ is adopted from the
original. According to the usual rule, viz. that the syllable _er_ is
usually slurred over in Chaucer when a vowel follows, the word is to be
read as _mis'ricord-e_. So also _sov'reyn_, l. 69.
27. _Vouched sauf_, vouchsafed. _Tacorde_, to accord; cf. _talyghte_,
_tamende_, &c. in the Cant. Tales.
29. Cf. 'S'encore fust l'arc encordé'; orig, l. 47; and 'l'arc de justice,'
l. 42. The French expression is probably borrowed (as suggested in Bell's
Chaucer) from Ps. vii. 13--'arcum suum tetendit.' Hence the phrase _of
Iustice and of yre_ refers to _the bowe_.