4. _Uprist_, upriseth. But in Kn. Tale, 193 (A 1051), _uprist-e_ (with
final _e_) is the dat. case of a sb.
7. The final _e_ in _sonn-e_ occurs at the cæsural pause; _candle_ is
pronounced nearly as _candl'_. The sun is here called the _candle of
Ielosye_, i.e torch or light that discloses cause for jealousy, in allusion
to the famous tale which is the foundation of the whole poem, viz. how
Phoebus (the Sun) discovered the amour between Mars and Venus, and informed
Vulcan of it, rousing him to jealousy; which Chaucer doubtless obtained
from his favourite author Ovid (Metam. bk. iv). See the description of
'Phebus,' with his 'torche in honde,' in ll. 27, 81-84 below. Gower also,
who quotes Ovid expressly, has the whole story; Conf. Amant. ed. Pauli, ii.
149. The story first occurs in Homer, Odys. viii. 266-358. And cf. Statius,
Theb. iii. 263-316; Chaucer's Kn. Tale, 1525 (A 2383), &c. Cf. also
Troilus, iii. 1457.
8. _Blewe_; 'there seems no propriety in this epithet; it is probably a
corruption'; Bell. But it is quite right; in M. E., the word is often
applied to the colour of a wale or stripe caused by a blow, as in the
phrase 'beat black and _blue_'; also to the gray colour of burnt-out ashes,
as in P. Plowman, B. iii. 97; also to the colour of lead; 'as blo as led,'
Miracle-Plays, ed. Marriott, p. 148. 'Ashen-gray' or 'lead-coloured' is not
a very bad epithet for tears:--
'And round about her tear-distained eye
_Blue_ circles streamed.' Shak. Lucrece, 1586.
9. _Taketh_, take ye. _With seynt Iohn_, with St. John for a surety;
_borwe_ being in the dat. case; see note to Squi. Tale, F 596. It occurs
also in the Kingis Quair, st. 23; Blind Harry's Wallace, bk. ix. l. 46; &c.