623. In a note to Cant. Ta. 17354 (I 43), Tyrwhitt says that perhaps _cadence_ means 'a species of poetical composition distinct from riming verses.' But it is difficult to shew that Chaucer ever composed anything of the kind, unless it can be said that his translation of Boethius or his Tale of Melibeus is in a sort of rhythmical prose. It seems to me just possible that by _rime_ may here be meant the ordinary riming of two lines together, as in the Book of the Duchess and the House of Fame, whilst by _cadence_ may be meant lines disposed in stanzas, as in the Parliament of Foules. There is nothing to shew that Chaucer had, at this period, employed the 'heroic verse' of the Legend of Good Women. However, we find the following quotation from Jullien in Littré's Dictionary, s.v. _Cadence_:--'Dans la prose, dans les vers, la cadence n'est pas autre chose que le rhythme ou le nombre: seulement on y joint ordinairement l'idée d'une certaine douceur dans le style, d'un certain art dans l'arrangement des phrases ou dans le choix des mots que le rhythme proprement dit ne suppose pas du tout.' This is somewhat oracular, as it is difficult to see why _rhythm_ should not mean much the same thing. 637. 'And describest everything that relates to them.' (Here _hir_ = their), with reference to lovers. 639-40. 'Although thou mayst accompany those whom he is not pleased to assist.' Nearly repeated in Troilus, i. 517, 518. 652. In a note upon the concluding passage of the Cant. Tales, Tyrwhitt says of the House of Fame:--'Chaucer mentions this among his works in the Leg. Good Women, verse 417. He wrote it while he was Comptroller of the Custom of Wools, &c. (see Bk. ii. l. 144-8 [the present passage]), and consequently after the year 1374.' See Ward's Chaucer, pp. 76, 77, with its happy reference to Charles Lamb and his 'works'; and compare a similar passage in the Prol. to Legend of Good Women, 30-6. 662. Cf. Dante, Inf. i. 113, which Cary thus translates:-- --'and I, thy guide, Will lead thee hence through an eternal space.' 678. _Long y-served_, faithfully served for a long time, i.e. after a long period of devotion; alluding to the word _servant_ in the sense of lover. 681. Alluding to sudden fallings in love, especially 'at first sight.' Such take place at haphazard; as if a blind man should accidentally frighten a hare, without in the least intending it. We find in Hazlitt's collection of Proverbs--'The hare starts when a man least expects it'; p. 373. 682. _Iolytee and fare_, happiness and good speed. The very same words are employed, but ironically, by Theseus in the Knight's Tale, A 1807, 1809. The _hare_ also accompanies them; id. A 1810. 683. 'As long as they find love to be as true as steel.' Cf. Troilus, iv. 325:--'God leve that ye finde ay love of steel.'