2958. 'Chaucer seems to have confounded the _wake-plays_ of his own time with the funeral games of the antients.'--Tyrwhitt. Cf. Troil. v. 304; and see 'Funeral Entertainments' in Brand's Popular Antiquities. 2962. _in no disioynt_, with no disadvantage. Cf. Verg. Æn. iii. 281. 2967-86. Cf. the _Teseide_, xii. 3-5. 2968. Lounsbury (Studies in Chaucer, i. 345) proposes to put a full stop at the end of this line, after _teres_; and to put _no_ stop at the end of l. 2969. 2991-3. _that faire cheyne of love._ This sentiment is taken from Boethius, lib. ii. met. 8: 'þat þe world with stable feith / varieth acordable chaungynges // þat the contraryos qualite of elementz holden amonge hem self aliaunce perdurable / þat phebus the sonne with his goldene chariet / bryngeth forth the rosene day / þat the mone hath commaundement ouer the nyhtes // whiche nyhtes hesperus the euesterre hat[h] browt // þat þe se gredy to flowen constreyneth with a certeyn ende hise floodes / so þat it is nat l[e]ueful to strechche hise brode termes or bowndes vpon the erthes // þat is to seyn to couere alle the erthe // Al this a-cordaunce of thinges is bownden with looue / þat gouerneth erthe and see and hath also commaundementz to the heuenes / and yif this looue slakede the brydelis / alle thinges þat now louen hem togederes / wolden maken a batayle contynuely and stryuen to fordoon the fasoun of this worlde / the which they now leden in acordable feith by fayre moeuynges // this looue halt to-gideres peoples ioygned with an hooly bond / and knytteth sacrement of [94] maryages of chaste looues // And love enditeth lawes to trewe felawes // O weleful weere mankynde / yif thilke loue þat gouerneth heuene gouerned[e] yowre corages.'--Chaucer's Boethius, ed. Morris, p. 62; cf. also pp. 87, 143. (See the same passage in vol. ii. p. 50; cf. pp. 73, 122.) And cf. the Teseide, ix. 51; Homer, II. viii. 19. Also Rom. de la Rose, 16988:-- 'La bele chaéne dorée Qui les quatre elemens enlace.' 2994. What follows is taken from Boethius, lib. iv. pr. 6: 'þe engendrynge of alle þinges, quod she, and alle þe progressiouns of muuable nature, and alle þat moeueþ in any manere, takiþ hys causes, hys ordre, and hys formes, of þe stablenesse of þe deuyne þou[gh]t; [and thilke deuyne thowht] þat is yset and put in þe toure, þat is to seyne in þe hey[gh]t of þe simplicite of god, stablisiþ many manere gyses to þinges þat ben to don.'--Chaucer's Boethius, ed. Morris, p. 134. (See the same passage in vol. ii. p. 115).