Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

446 NOTES,29. Compare lines i and 2.34. It is both weltb, i. e. to flee truth is both for your welfare and yourease. This passage is strongly ironical.36. Yet, ver)' near to that wand (made by the praises of men) truthgoes about in great distress.44. By giving a cheese to a calf, one might perhaps get at least acheese and a half in return.45. Cant, portion; Shakespeare uses cantle, i Henr)'^ IV, iii. i. 100.47. Learne at, learn from. Cf. 'ask at' in Marmion, iii. 29.5^ All this is much in the manner of Juvenal ; see, for instance, hisThird Satire.65. A nine-syllable line; place an emphasis on Let, since the firstsyllable is the one missing. So also, in 1. 87 below, place an emphasison With.72. Here laughter appears to rime with besought her and daughter.,but we cannot be certain as to the soimd ; cf. note to 1. 20.75. Pandar, Pandarus, whose name has become proverbial ; seeChaucer's or Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.78. Be next thyselfe, be nearest (or most friendly to) thyself; forfriendship (to others^ is valueless.'(D) A renouncing of Jotie.3. Senec, Seneca. The MSS. of Chaucer have the form Senek.5. I have inserted my, as it improves the sense and rhythm.7. That I set, that I ought to set no store by trifles.14. Me lyst, it pleases me, I like.(E) Ihe louer forsaketh his imkinde loue.10. Fault. The / in this word was not sounded. In our olderauthors, it is frequently written /aw/e. Even Pope sounds it \\-ithout the/, riming it with taught in his Moral Essays, Epist. ii.13. Bearyng in band, cajolery, persuasion to belief of an untruth.(F) The louer determineth to serue faithfully.6. Serve and suffer. The phrase ' suffren and semen ' occurs in Piersthe Plowman, B. prol. 131.