925. The word _Auctor_, here written in the margin of E., signifies that this stanza and the two following ones are additions to the story by the author. At the same time, ll. 925-931 are really taken from Chaucer's own translation of Pope Innocent's treatise De Contemptu Mundi; see further in the note to B. 99 above. Accordingly, we also find here, in the margin of E., the following Latin note:--'O extrema libidinis turpitudo, que non solum mentem effeminat, set eciam corpus eneruat. Semper sequ[u]ntur dolor et penitentia post,' &c. This corresponds to the above treatise, lib. ii. c. 21, headed 'De luxuria.' The last clause is abbreviated; the original has:--'Semper illam procedunt ardor et petulantia; semper comitantur fetor et immunditia; sequuntur semper dolor et poenitentia.' 932-45. These two stanzas are wholly Chaucer's, plainly written as a parallel passage to that in ll. 470-504 above. 934. _Golias_, Goliath. See I Samuel xvii. 25. 940. See the story of Holofernes in the Monkes Tale, B. 3741; and the note. I select the spelling _Olofernus_ here, because it is that of the majority of the MSS., and agrees with the title _De Oloferno_ in the Monkes Tale. 947. In l. 465, Chaucer mentions the 'Strait of Marrok,' i. e. Morocco, though there is no mention of it in the French text; so here he alludes [162] to it again, but by a different name, viz. 'the mouth of Jubalter and Septe.' _Jubaltar_ (Gibraltar) is from the Arabic _jabálu't tárik_, i. e. the mountain of Tarik; who was the leader of a band of Saracens that made a descent upon Spain in the eighth century. _Septe_ is Ceuta, on the opposite coast of Africa. 965. _shortly_, briefly; because Chaucer here again abridges the original, which relates how the Romans burnt the Sultaness, and slew more than 11,000 of the Saracens, without a single death or even wound on their own side. 967. _senatour._ His name was Arsemius of Cappadocia; his wife's name was Helen. Accent _victorie_ on the _o_. 969. _as seith the storie_, as the history says. The French text relates this circumstance fully. 971. The French text says that, though Arsemius did not recognise Constance, she, on her part, recognised him at once, though she did not reveal it. 981. _aunte._ Helen, the wife of Arsemius, was daughter of Sallustius, brother of the Emperor Tiberius, and Constance's uncle. Thus Helen was really Constance's first cousin. Chaucer may have altered it purposely; but it looks as if he had glanced at the sentence--'Cest heleyne, la nece Constaunce, taunt tendrement ama sa nece,' &c., and had read it as--'This Helen ... loved her _niece_ so tenderly.' In reality, the word _nece_ means 'cousin' here, being applied to Helen as well as to Constance. 982. _she_, i. e. Helen; for Constance knew Helen.