Selections From Chaucer, Including His Earlier And His Later Verse And An Example of His Prose
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2710. Note the construction. 2745. for any lechecraft. " Despite any physician's help (however skillful)." 2749-2750. The " virtues " are powers assumed to be given to the body by the soul. The "virtue expulsive" (as a function of the "animal virtue" seated in the brain) is the power of the body to expel what is hurtful. The " natural virtue," resident in the liver, is the power which moves the " hu- mors " of the body by means of the veins (Skeat) . 2787. " For one to speak of a servant [of Lo...ve] in proper terms." 2810. Chaucer, as Skeat points out, had already used Boccaccio's descrip- tion of the passage of Arcite's soul to heaven in reference to the death of Troilus in the Troilus and Cressida. Hence, he makes use here of his frequent humorous trick of pleading ignorance in regard to difficult matters. 2815. ther . . . gye. " Where may Mars guide (care for) his soul." 2874. whyte. For the reason that Arcite was unmarried. 2920. Skeat has an interesting note on the development of the list of trees as a poetic convention — from Ovid through Virgil, Lucan, Statins, Boccaccio, Chaucer (in two passages), Tasso, Spenser.
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