51. _Loking_, aspect; a translation of the Latin astrological term
_aspectus_. They regard each other with a favourable aspect.
54. _Hir nexte paleys_, the next palace (or mansion), which belonged to
Venus. In astrology, each planet was said to have two _mansions_, except
the sun and moon, which had but one apiece. A _mansion_, or _house_, or
_palace_, is that Zodiacal sign in which, for some imaginary reason, a
planet was supposed to be peculiarly at home. (The whole system is fanciful
and arbitrary.) The mansions of Venus were said to be Taurus and Libra;
those of Mars, Aries and Scorpio; and those of Mercury, Gemini and Virgo.
See the whole scheme in the introduction to Chaucer's Astrolabe. The sign
here meant is _Taurus_ (cf. l. 86); and the arrangement was that Mars
should 'glide' or pass out of the sign of Aries into that of Taurus, which
came next, and belonged specially to Venus.
55. _A-take_, overtaken; because the apparent motion of Venus is swifter
than that of Mars. This shews that Mars was, at first, further advanced
than Venus along the Zodiac.
61. Actually repeated in the Nonne Prestes Tale, l. 340 (B 4350):--'For
whan I see the beautee of your face.' Compare also l. 62 with the same, l.
342; and l. 63 with the same, l. 350.