{81} Yode, went. First English, eode, past of gan, to go.



NOTES.



{21} This old French and Anglo-Norman word, answering to the Italian
gentilezza, and signifying the possession of every species of
refinement, has been retained as supplying a want which there is no
modern word to fill up.--Leigh Hunt.

{26} The sententious sermon which here follows might have had a
purely serious intention in Chaucer's time, when books were rare,
and moralities not such commonplaces as they are now; yet it is
difficult to believe that the poet did not intend something of a
covert satire upon at least the sermoniser's own pretensions,
especially as the latter had declared himself against text-spinning.
The Host, it is to be observed, had already charged him with
forgetting his own faults, while preaching against those of others.
The refashioner of the original lines has accordingly endeavoured to
retain the kind of tabernacle, or old woman's tone, into which he
conceives the Manciple to have fallen, compared with that of his
narrative style.--Leigh Hunt.

{42} "We possess," says Satan in Paradise Lost, "the quarters of
the north." The old legend that Milton followed placed Satan in the
north parts of heaven, following the passage in Isaiah concerning
Babylon on which that legend was constructed (Isa. xiv. 12-15),