3005. Chaucer again is indebted to Boethius, lib. iii. pr. 10, for what follows: 'For al þing þat is cleped inperfit, is proued inperfit by þe amenusynge of perfeccioun, or of þing þat is perfit; and her-of comeþ it, þat in euery þing general, yif þat þat men seen any þing þat is inperfit, certys in þilke general þer mot ben somme þing þat is perfit. For yif so be þat perfeccioun is don awey, men may nat þinke nor seye fro whennes þilke þing is þat is cleped inperfit. For þe nature of þinges ne token nat her bygynnyng of þinges amenused and inperfit; but it procediþ of þingus þat ben al hool and absolut, and descendeþ so doune into outerest þinges and into þingus empty and wiþoute fruyt; but, as I haue shewed a litel her-byforne, þat yif þer be a blisfulnesse þat be frele and vein and inperfit, þer may no man doute þat þer nys som blisfulnesse þat is sad, stedfast, and perfit.'--Chaucer (as above), p. 89. (See the same passage in vol. ii. pp. 74, 75.) 3013. 'And thilke same ordre neweth ayein alle thinges growyng and fallyng adoune by semblables progressiouns of seedes and of sexes.'--Chaucer's Boethius, ed. Morris, p. 137. (See the same passage in vol. ii. p. 117; i. e. in bk. iv. pr. 6. l. 103). 3016. _seen at ye_, see at a glance. Gower, ed. Pauli, i. 33, has:--'The thing so open is at theye,' i. e. is so open at the eye, is so obvious. 'Now is the tyme _sen at eye_,' i. e. clearly seen; Coventry Myst. p. 122. 3017-68. Cf. the Teseide, xii. 7-10, 6, 11, 13, 9, 12-17, 19. 3042. So in Troilus, iv. 1586: 'Thus maketh vertu of necessite'; and in Squire's Tale, pt. ii. l. 247 (Group F, l. 593): 'That I made vertu of necessite.' It is from Le Roman de la Rose, 14217:-- 'S'il ne fait de necessité Vertu.' So in Matt. Paris, ed. Luard, i. 20. Cf. Horace, Carm. i. 24:-- 'Durum! sed leuius fit patientia Quidquid corrigere est nefas.' [95] 3068. Cf. 'The time renneth toward right fast, Joy cometh after whan the sorrow is past.' Hawes' Pastime of Pleasure, ed. Wright, p. 148. 3089. _oghte to passen right_, should surpass mere equity or justice. 3094-102. Cf. the Teseide, xii. 69, 72, 83. 3105. Cf. Book of the Duchesse, 1287-97. THE MILLER'S PROLOGUE. The Miller's name is _Robin_ (l. 3129). 3110. The reading _companye_ (as in old editions and Tyrwhitt) in place of _route_ makes the line too long. 3115. I. e. the bag is unbuckled, the budget is opened; as when a packman displays his wares. See Group I, l. 26. 3119. _To quyte with_, to requite the Knight with, for his excellent Tale. This position of _with_, next its verb, is the almost invariable M. E. idiom. Cf. F. 471, 641, C. 345; Notes to P. Pl., C. i. 133, &c. 3120. 'Very drunk, and all pale'; cf. A. 4150, H. 30.