'Li Diex d'Amors, qui, l'arc tendu,
Avoit toute jor atendu
A moi porsivre et espier.'
840. Koch proposes to omit _maner_, and read--'No counseyl, but at hir
loke.' It is more likely that _counseyl_ has slipped in, as a gloss upon
_reed_, and was afterwards substituted for it.
849. _Carole_, dance round, accompanying the dance with a song. The word
occurs in the Rom. de la Rose several times; thus at l. 747, we have:--
'Lors veissies _carole_ aler,
Et gens mignotement baler.' (See p. 125, above.)
Cf. Chaucer's version, ll. 759, 810; also 744. Dante uses the pl. _carole_
(Parad. xxiv. 16) to express swift circular movements; and Cary quotes a
comment upon it to the effect that '_carolæ_ dicuntur tripudium quoddam
quod fit saliendo, ut Napolitani faciunt et dicunt.' He also quotes the
expression 'grans danses et grans _karolles_' from Froissart, ed. 1559,
vol. i. cap. 219. That it meant singing as well as dancing appears from the
Rom. de la Rose, l. 731.
858. Chaucer gives Virginia golden hair; Doct. Tale, C 38. Compare the
whole description of the maiden in the E. version of the Rom. of the Rose,
ll. 539-561 (p. 116, above).
861. _Of good mochel_, of an excellent size; _mochel_ = size, occurs in P.
Plowman, B. xvi. 182. Scan the line--
'Simpl' of | good moch | el noght | to wyde.'