2083. _Leve_, grant. We also find _lene_, to grant, give, but it is only used with a following _case_; whilst _leve_ is only used with a following _clause_. _Me_ is governed by _befalle_. 'And grant that such a case may never befall me,' i.e. for Theseus to be merely her page. 2086. _And leve_, and may He also grant. 2089. 'Yet it would be better'; followed by _Then_ (= than) in l. 2092. 2094. The latter syllable of _profit_ comes at the caesura, and is easily read quickly. We need not change _unto_ into _to_, as in MS. A. only. 2096. _To my_, as for my. 2099. _That_, (I propose) that. _Sone_, Hippolytus. Yet, in l. 2075, Theseus was only 23 years old! Perhaps she proposes, in banter, a purely whimsical condition; cf. ll. 2102, 2120, 2127. 2100. _Hoom-coming_, arrival at home; cf. Kn. Tale, 26 (A 884). 2101. _Fynal ende_, definite settlement. 2105. _To borwe_, as a pledge; cf. Squi. Ta., F 596. 2107. To draw blood on oneself was a frequent mode of attestation. Cf. Wright's note on K. Lear, ii. I. 34; and note how Faustus stabs his arm in Marlowe's play; Act ii. sc. 1. 2120. _Servant_, devoted lover; the usual phrase. This asseveration of Theseus shews that he thought Ariadne immeasurably credulous. 2122. _Of Athenes duchesse_, (whom I hail as) duchess of Athens. That is, he promises her marriage. In l. 2127 Ariadne grows pleasant on the subject. 2128. 'And assured to the royalties (or regal attributes) of Athens'; i.e. we are secure of our future royal rank. 2130. _And saved_, and we have saved. Chaucer has _be_ just above; so that he has changed the idiom. 2132. _Emforth hir might_, even-forth with her might, to the extent of her power; cf. Kn. Ta., 1377 (A 2235). 2134. 'It seems to me, no one ought to blame us for this; nor give us an evil name on this account.' 2145. _Geeth_, goeth, goes; A.S. _g['æ]ð_. For two more examples, see _geð_ in Gloss. to Spec. of English, Part I. 2150. _By_, by help of, with the help of. 2151. _Of_, with. _Gan hit charge_, did load it. 'And they say, that having killed this Minotaur, he returned back again the same way he went, bringing with him those other young children of Athens [whom Chaucer forgets to mention], whom with Ariadne also he carried afterwards away.'--Sh. Plutarch, p. 283. 2155. _Ennopye_, Oenopia, another name for Ægina; which was on their way from Crete to Athens. Chaucer got the name from Ovid, Met. vii. 472, 473, 490; and introduces it naturally enough, because Æacus, then dwelling there, was an old ally of the Athenians; id. 485; cf. l. 2156 in our poem. Gilman suggests that Enope (i.e. Gerenia in Messenia) is meant, which is merely a wild guess. 2161. _Woon_, number. Originally, a hope; also, a resource, a store, a quantity; and hence _gret woon_ = a great number. For examples, see _w[=a]n_ in Stratmann; and cf. note to Troil. iv. 1181.