798. 'Three days and a quarter of an hour'; i. e. she was to be allowed only three days, and after that to start off as soon as possible. _Tide_ (like _tíð_ in Icelandic) sometimes means an hour. The French text says 'deynz quatre iours,' within four days. 801. _croude_, push; see ll. 296, 299 above; and note to l. 299. 813-26. Lines 813-819 are not in the French, and ll. 820-826 are not at all close to the original. The former stanza, which is due to Boeth. bk. i. met. 5. 22-30, was doubtless added in the revision. 827-33. The French text only has--'en esperaunce qe dure comencement amenera dieu a bon fyn, et qil me purra en la mere sauuer, qi en mere et en terre est de toute puissaunce.' 835. The beautiful stanzas in ll. 834-868 are all Chaucer's own; and of the next stanza, ll. 869-875, the French text gives but the merest hint. 842. _eggement_, incitement. The same word is used in other descriptions of the Fall. Thus, in Piers Plowman, B. i. 65, it is said of Satan that 'Adam and Eue he _egged_ to ille '; and in Allit. Poems, ed. Morris, B. 241, it is said of Adam that 'thurgh the _eggyng_ of Eue he ete of an apple.' 852. _refut_, refuge; see G. 75, and A. B. C. 14. 859. _As lat_, pray, let. See note to Clerkes Prologue, E. 7. [161] 873. _purchace_, provide, make provision. So in Troilus, bk. ii. 1125, the line 'And of som goodly answere you purchace' means--and provide yourself with some kind answer, i. e. be ready with a kind reply. 875-84. Much abridged from the French text. 885. _tormented_, tortured. However, the French text says the messenger acknowledged his drunkenness freely. Examination by torture was so common, that Chaucer seems to have regarded the mention of it as being the most simple way of telling the story. 893. _out of drede_, without doubt, certainly; cf. l. 869. The other equally common expression _out of doute_ comes to much the same thing, because _doute_ in Middle-English has in general the meaning of _fear_ or _dread_, not of hesitation. See Group E. 634, 1155; and Prol. A. 487. 894. _pleinly rede_, fully read, read at length. In fact, Chaucer judiciously omits the details of the French text, where we read that King Ælla rushed into his mother's room with a drawn sword as she lay asleep, roused her by crying 'traitress!' in a loud voice, and, after hearing the full confession which she made in the extremity of her terror, slew her and cut her to pieces as she lay in bed. 901. _fleteth_, floats. French text--'le quinte an de cest exil, come ele _flotaunt_ sur le mere,' &c. Cf. _fleet_ in l. 463. 905. The name of the castle is certainly not given in the French text, which merely says it was 'vn chastel dun Admiral de paens,' i. e. a castle of an admiral of the Pagans. 912. _gauren_, gaze, stare. See note to Squ. Tale, F. 190. 913. _shortly_, briefly; because the poet considerably abridges this part of the narrative. The steward's name was Thelous.