2217. _And in hir houre._ 'I cannot better illustrate Chaucer's astrology than by a quotation from the old Kalendrier de Bergiers, edit. 1500, Sign. K. ii. b:--"Qui veult savoir comme bergiers scevent quel planete regne chascune heure du jour et de la nuit, doit savoir la planete du jour qui veult s'enquerir; et la premiere heure temporelle du soleil levant ce jour est pour celluy planete, la seconde heure est pour la planete ensuivant, et la tierce pour l'autre," &c., in the following order: viz. Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sol, Venus, Mercury, Luna. To apply this doctrine to the present case, the first hour of the Sunday, reckoning from sunrise, belonged to the Sun, the planet of the day; the second to Venus, the third to Mercury, &c.; and continuing this method of allotment, we shall find that the twenty-second hour also belonged to the Sun, and the twenty-third to Venus; so that the hour of Venus really was, as Chaucer says, two hours before the sunrise of the following day. Accordingly, we are told in l. 2271, that the third hour after Palamon set out for the temple of Venus, the Sun rose, and Emily began to go to the temple of Diane. It is not said that this was the hour of Diane, or the Moon, but it really was; for, as we have just seen, the twenty-third hour of Sunday belonging to Venus, the twenty-fourth must be given to Mercury, and the first hour of Monday falls in course to the Moon, the presiding planet of that day. After this, Arcite is described as walking to the temple of Mars, l. 2367, in _the nexte houre of Mars_, that is, the _fourth_ hour of the day. It is necessary to take these words together, for _the nexte houre_, singly, would signify the _second_ hour of the day; but that, according to the rule of rotation mentioned above, belonged to Saturn, as the _third_ did to Jupiter. The _fourth_ was _the nexte houre of Mars_ that occurred after the hour last named.'--Tyrwhitt. Thus Emily is two hours later than Palamon, and Arcite is three hours later than Emily. 2221-64. To be compared with the Teseide, vii. 43-49, and vii. 68. 2224. _Adoun_, Adonis. See Ovid, Met. x. 503. 2233-6. Imitated from Le Rom. de la Rose, 21355-65, q. v. 2238. 'I care not to boast of arms (success in arms).' 2239. _Ne I ne axe_, &c., are to be pronounced as _ni naxe_, &c. So in l. 2630 of this tale, _Ne in_ must be pronounced as _nin_. 2252. _wher I ryde or go_, whether I ride or walk. 2253. _fyres bete_, kindle or light fires. _Bete_ also signifies to mend or make up the fire; see l. 2292. 2271. _The thridde hour inequal._ 'In the astrological system, the day, from sunrise to sunset, and the night, from sunset to sunrise, being each divided into twelve hours, it is plain that the hours of the day and night were never equal except just at the equinoxes. The hours attributed to the planets were of this _unequal_ sort. See Kalendrier de Berg. loc. cit., and our author's treatise on the Astrolabe.'--Tyrwhitt. 2275-360. Cf. the Teseide, vii. 71-92.