Selections From Chaucers Canterbury Tales Ellesmere Text
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4365. Lay in the yerd : the subject relative omitted. 4398. Opposite this line in Mss. E. And Hn. Is written 'Petrus Comestor. ' * He was a native of Troyes, in Champagne, and occupied a high position among the learned men of the twelfth century. The name of Comestor, or " the eater, " was given him, not because he con- sumed more food than other people, but because he devoured more books. His great work, the Historia Scholastica, was held for a long B. NOTES 207 time in the highest repute in t...he department of religious literature. ' Prof. Lounsbury's Studies in Chaucer, Vol. II. P. 373. 4402. Launcelot de Lake : Lancelot of the Lake, the most famous knight of King Arthur's Round Table, the lover of Queen Guinevere. 4417. O newe Scariot : Gano or Genilon, 'who imposed upon the credulity of his sovereign [Charlemagne], and betrayed the Christian army to the heathen in the pass of Roncesvalles where all the paladins fell fighting. He had accordingly been elevated to a place beside Judas Iscariot in the legendary story of the Middle Ages.
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