Footnote 61:  I live

Footnote 62:  fairest

Footnote 63:  I am

Footnote 64:  power, bondage.

Footnote 65:  a pleasant fate I have attained.

Footnote 66:  I know

Footnote 67:  gone

Footnote 68:  lit, alighted

Footnote 69:  For titles and publishers of reference books see General
Bibliography at the end of this book.

Footnote 70:  The reader may perhaps be more interested in these final letters, which are sometimes sounded and again silent, if he remembers that they represent the decaying inflections of our old Anglo-Saxon speech.

Footnote 71:  House of Fame, II, 652 ff.  The passage is more or less autobiographical.

Footnote 72:  Legend of Good Women, Prologue, ll. 29 ff.

Footnote 73:  wealth.

Footnote 74:  the crowd.

Footnote 75:  success.

Footnote 76:  blinds.

Footnote 77:  act.

Footnote 78:  trouble.

Footnote 79:  i.e. the goddess Fortune.

Footnote 80:  kick.

Footnote 81:  awl.

Footnote 82:  judge.

Footnote 83:  For the typography of titles the author has adopted the plan of putting the titles of all books, and of all important works generally regarded as single books, in italics.  Individual poems, essays, etc., are in Roman letters with quotation marks.  Thus we have the “Knight’s Tale,” or the story of “Palamon and Arcite,” in the Canterbury Tales.  This system seems on the whole the best, though it may result in some inconsistencies.

Footnote 84:  Troilus and Criseyde, III.

Footnote 85:  See p. 107.

Footnote 86:  For a summary of Chaucer’s work and place in our literature, see the Comparison with Spenser, p. 111.

Footnote 87:  clad.

Footnote 88:  wonder.

Footnote 89:  brook.

Footnote 90:  sounded.

Footnote 91:  theirs

Footnote 92:  rule

Footnote 93:  righteousness

Footnote 94:  called

Footnote 95:  theirs

Footnote 96:  yield

Footnote 97:  say

Footnote 98:  them

Footnote 99:  hate

Footnote 100:  persecute

Footnote 101:  slander

Footnote 102:  rains

Footnote 103:  In its English form the alleged Mandeville describes the lands and customs he has seen, and brings in all the wonders he has heard about.  Many things he has seen himself, he tells us, and these are certainly true; but others he has heard in his travels, and of these the reader must judge for himself.  Then he incidentally mentions a desert where he saw devils as thick as grasshoppers.  As for things that he has been told by devout travelers, here are the dog-faced men, and birds that carry off elephants,