Chaucerian and Other Pieces/Subjects
INDEX
TO SOME
SUBJECTS EXPLAINED IN THE NOTES.
A large number of the Notes refer to explanations of peculiar words and to proper names; the references to these will be found in the Glossarial Index and in the Index of Names. A few other subjects of more general interest are also discussed; the chief of these are indexed below. The references are to the pages.
Arbours described, 535.
Bell, Book, and Candle, cursing by, 485.
Birds singing the 'hours,' 552.
burly, etymology of, 524.
Burning of heretics, 489, 490, 494.
Cardinal Virtues, 479.
Chaucer's death alluded to, 510.
Chaucer's Boëthius, alluded to, 451, 453-4, 457-8, 461-3, 466-76, 481-3.
— Anelida, 537, 543.
— Book of the Duchess, 473, 530.
— Canterbury Tales, 456, 503, &c.
— Compleynt of Venus, 548-9.
— House of Fame, imitated, 467-8.
— Legend of Good Women, 452, 467, 483, 500-1, 537, 542-3, 547.
— Merciless Beautè, 513.
— Rom. of the Rose, 456-7, 504-6, 545, 549, 551.
— Troilus, 452, 455, 457, 459, 472, 481-3, 521-3, 525, 551.
Christine de Pisan, 499.
Creeping to the cross, 490.
Cupid's arrows, 531-2.
determission (a false form), 476.
Elements, the four, 462, 472.
Final cause, 464.
Forget-me-not, 536.
Friars, the, 493-6.
Geoffrey de Vinsauf, 540.
Gower's blindness, 498.
Griffin, the, 485.
Hengist, perhaps alluded to, 471.
Hercules, pillars of, 507.
'Hours,' Canonical, 552-3.
Knot, the, defined, 468.
Lent, three divisions of, 521.
Lepers, 523, 525.
Lollards, the, 464, 485, 489.
London, election of the mayor, 459.
Lydgate's Temple of Glass, imitated, 540, &c.
Margaret, meaning of, 475-6, 484;
derivation of, 479.
Maze described, 535.
me, for men = man, 452.
Mottoes worn on sleeves, 536.
Pearl, virtues of the, 453, 475.
Pelican, the, 485.
Piers Plowman, imitated, 456-8, 464-6, 477, 482-4.
Popes, schism of the, 487.
Prester John, 532.
Proverbs, Book of (quoted), 477-8.
Proverbs:—a cipher in augrim, 470;
against the hair, 468;
all day fails the fool's thought, 472;
he that hews above his head, the chips fall in his eye, 462, 509;
it may rime, but it accords not, 466;
silence gives consent, 461;
the habit makes not the monk, 475;
when bale is highest, boot is nighest, 473;
fallere, flere, &c., 516, 546;
vento quid levius, &c., 516.
Remember-me, 536.
Romance of the Rose, 456-7, 504-6, 545, 549, 551.
St. Julian's paternoster, 536-7.
Sun, four horses of the, 523;
greater than the earth, 479.
Virgin, five joys of the, 511.
web and pin, 455.
Week, names of the days of the, 473-4.
Worthies, the nine, 497, 514, 532.
Zealand, 460.
THE END.