See Tale xviii. in the Gesta Romanorum, in Swan's Translation; Caxton's Golden Legende; and the Metrical Lives of Saints in MS. Bodley 1596, fol. 4, 'I pray God and St. Julian to send me a good lodging at night'; translation of Boccaccio, _Decam._ Second Day, nov. 2; quoted in Swan's tr. of Gesta Romanorum, p. 372. See Warton, Hist. Eng. Poet., ed. Hazlitt, i. 247; ii. 58. 1024. 'Canst thou not hear that which I hear?' 1034. _Peter!_ By St. Peter; a common exclamation, which Warton amazingly misunderstood, asserting that Chaucer is here addressed by the name of Peter (Hist. E. P., ed. Hazlitt, ii. 331, note 6); whereas it is _Chaucer himself_ who uses the exclamation. The Wyf of Bathe uses it also, C. T., D 446; so does the Sumpnour, C. T., D 1332; and the wife in the Shipman's Tale, C. T., B 1404; and see l. 2000 below. See also my note to l. 665 of the Canon's Yeoman's Tale. But Warton well compares the present passage with Ovid, Met. xii. 49-52:-- 'Nec tamen est clamor, sed paruae murmura uocis; qualia de pelagi, si quis procul audiat, undis esse solent: qualemve sonum, quum Iupiter atras increpuit nubes, extrema tonitrua reddunt.' 1044. _Beten_, beat, occurs in MSS. F. and B. But the other reading _byten_ (bite) seems better. Cf. Troil. iii. 737, and the common saying 'It won't bite you.' 1048. Cf. Dante, Purg. iii. 67-69. So also Inf. xxxi. 83. 1063. _Lyves body_, a person alive; _lyves_ is properly an adverb. 1066. _Seynte_; see note to l. 573. _Seynte Clare_, Saint Clara, usually Saint Clare, whose day is Aug. 12. She was an abbess, a disciple of St. Francis, and died A.D. 1253. BOOK III. 1091-1109. Imitated from Dante, Parad. i. 13-27. Compare ll. 1106, 1107, with Cary's translation-- 'If thou to me of thine impart so much, ... Thou shalt behold me of thy favour'd tree Come to the foot, and crown myself with leaves.' And compare l. 1109 with--'Entra nel petto mio.' 1098. This shews that Chaucer occasionally, and intentionally, gives a syllable too little to the verse. In fact, he does so just below, in l. 1106; where _Thou_ forms the first foot of the verse, instead of _So thou_, or _And thou_. This failure of the first syllable is common throughout the poem. 1099. _And that_, i.e. And though that; see l. 1098. 1109. _Entreth_ is the imperative plural; see note to A. B. C. 17. 1114. MSS. _cite_, _cyte_ (F. _citee_!); but _site_ in Astrol. pt. ii. 17. 25 (p. 201). 1116. 'Fama tenet, summaque domum sibi legit in arce'; Ovid, Met. xii. 43. Cf. Dante, Purg. iii. 46-48; also Ovid, Met. ii. 1-5. 1131. 'And swoor hir ooth by Seint Thomas of Kent'; C. T., A 3291. It alludes to the celebrated shrine of Beket at Canterbury. 1136. _Half_, side; _al the half_, all the side of the hill which he was ascending, which we find was the _south_ side (l. 1152).