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Notes.

[1] Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chap. xxxix. See the whole chapter.

[2] Philosophy personified; see Book i , Prose 1, l. 3.

[3] See Book ii , Prose 1.

[4] See Book ii , Proses 5, 6.

[5] See Book iii , Prose 9.

[6] See Book iv , Metre 1.

[7] See Book iv , Prose 6.

[8] See Book v .

[9] See the Romaunt of the Rose (in vol. i.), ll. 5659-5666; and the note to l. 5661. It is also tolerably obvious, that Chaucer selected Metre 5 of