The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer
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manuscripts." In a manuscript in the Harleian Library, it is
stated, "Certum est in prora cerebri esse fantasiam, in medio rationem discretionis, in puppi memoriam" (it is certain that in the front of the brain is imagination, in the middle reason, in the back memory) -- a classification not materially differing from that of modern phrenologists. 21. Dan: Lord; Latin, "Dominus;" Spanish, "Don." 22. The "caduceus." 23. Argus was employed by Juno to watch Io with his hundred eyes but he was sent to sleep by the flute of Mercury, who then cut off his head. 24. Next: nearest; German, "naechste". 25. Clary: hippocras, wine made with spices. 26. Warray: make war; French "guerroyer", to molest; hence, perhaps, "to worry." 27. All day meeten men at unset steven: every day men meet at unexpected time. "To set a steven," is to fix a time, make an appointment. 28. Roundelay: song coming round again to the words with which it opened. 29. Now in the crop and now down in the breres: Now in the |
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