7. _Trouthe shal delivere_, truth shall give deliverance. 'The truth shall
make you free,' Lat. 'ueritas liberabit uos'; John viii. 32. This is a
general truth, and there is no need for the insertion of _thee_ after
_shal_, as in the inferior MSS., in consequence of the gradual loss of the
final _e_ in _trouthe_, which in Chaucer is properly dissyllabic. The
scribes who turned _trouthe_ into _trouthe thee_ forgot that this makes up
_trou-thè thee_.
8. _Tempest thee noght_, do not violently trouble or harass thyself, do not
be in a state of agitation. Agitation will not redress everything that is
crooked. So also:--'_Tempest_ thee nat thus with al thy fortune'; Boeth.
bk. ii. pr. 4, l. 50. Chaucer (as Koch says) obtained this curious verb
from the third line of section F (l. 63 of the whole poem) of the French
poem from which he translated his A B C. This section begins (see p. 263
above):--
'Fuiant m'en viens a ta tente
Moy mucier pour la tormente
Qui ou monde me _tempeste_';
i. e. I come fleeing to thy tent, to hide myself from the storm which
harasses me in the world. Goldsmith speaks of a mind being 'tempested up';
Cit. of the World, let. 47.
9. 'Trusting to the vicissitudes of fortune.' There are several references
to the wheel of Fortune in Boethius. Thus in bk. ii. pr. 2 of Chaucer's
translation:--'I torne the whirlinge wheel with the torning cercle,' quoted
above, in the note to X. 46.