741. _Sene_, visible; see note to l. 694. _Dere y-nogh a myte_, even in a slight degree; lit. '(to an extent) dear enough at a mite.' A singular use of the phrase. Cf. 'dere ynogh a leek'; Can. Yem. Ta., G 795; 'not worth a myte'; id., G 633. 742. 'Quid non sentit amor?' Met. iv. 68. 745. 'In a tone as low as if uttering a confession.' A curious medieval touch. Ovid says, 'murmure ... minimo'; 70. 756. 'Inuide, dicebant, paries, quid amantibus obstas?' 73. 763. _Holde_, beholden. 'Nec sumus ingrati'; 76. 773. Chaucer practically transposes the offices of Phoebus and Aurora. 'Postera nocturnos Aurora remouerat ignes, solque pruinosas radiis siccauerat herbas'; 82. 782. _And for_, and because, &c. 783. _For_ stands alone in the first foot. Cf. l. 797. 784. 'Conueniant ad busta Nini, lateantque sub umbra Arboris'; 88. Ll. 786, 787 are explanatory, and added by Chaucer. Ninus, the supposed founder of Nineveh, was the husband of Semiramis. Cf. Shak. Mid. Nt. Dr. v. 1. 139. 786. Lounsbury (Studies in Chaucer, i. 403) says that the pt. t. of _herien_ is _heried-e_, with final _e_. But the form is right; _héried-e_ is hardly pronounceable, and the final _e_ is naturally dropped when the accent is thrown so far back. The forms of the past tenses of weak verbs are variable; whether they take a final _e_ or not often depends on the form of the stem. See Ten Brink, Chaucer's Sprache, § 194. 797. _Y-wimpled_, covered with a wimple, or cloth covering the neck and fitting close round the face, chiefly worn by nuns. Another medieval touch. Ovid has 'adopertaque uultum'; 94. See note to l. 813. 798-801. These four lines are mainly original, and quite in Chaucer's own manner. Ovid has merely 'fallitque suos.' 803. 'Audacem faciebat amor'; 96. 804. _She gan her dresse_, she settled herself, lit. directed herself. Lat. 'sedit.' 810. _Rist_, riseth; pres. tense, as in l. 887. So _arist_, Man of Law's Tale, B 265. 811. _With dredful foot_; so again in Kn. Ta., A 1479. 'Timido pede fugit in antrum'; 100. See _Dreadful_ in Trench, Select Glossary; and cf. ll. 109, 404 above. 813. 'Dumque fugit, tergo uelamina lapsa reliquit'; 101. 'For fere, and let her wimple falle.'--Gower, Conf. Amant. i. 326. 814-6. These three lines are original. _Sit_, sitteth. _Darketh_, lies close. 'The child than _darked_ in his den'; Will. of Palerne, 17; 'drawe [drew] him into his den, and _darked_ ther stille'; id. 44. And again in the same poem, ll. 1834, 2851. 823-31. Considerably expanded from the Latin:-- 'Serius egressus uestigia uidit in alto puluere certa ferae, totoque expalluit ore Pyramus'; 105. 830. _Agroos_, shuddered; and again in l. 2314; and in Troil. ii. 930. The infin. _agryse_ is in the Man of Law's Tale, B 614. 834. 'Una duos, inquit, nox perdet amantes'; 108. 835. This line is Chaucer's own. 842. _What_, whatsoever; 'quicunque ... leones'; 114. 847-9. 'Accipe nunc, inquit, nostri quoque sanguinis haustus'; 118. 851-2.