2187. From Prov. xxv. 20; but the clause is omitted in the modern Eng. version, though Wycliffe has it. The Vulgate has:--'Sicut tinea uestimento, et uermis ligno: ita tristitia uiri nocet cordi.' The words _in the shepes flees_ (in the sheep's fleece) are added by Chaucer, apparently by way of explanation. But the fact is that, according to Mätzner, the Fr. version here has 'la tigne, ou lartuison, nuit a la robe,' where _artuison_ is the Mod. F. _artison_, explained by Cotgrave as 'a kind of moth'; and I strongly suspect that 'in the shepes flees' is due to this 'ou lartuison,' which Chaucer may have misread as _en la toison_. It looks very like it. I point other similar mistakes further on. _Anoyeth_, harms; F. _nuit_, L. _nocet_. The use of _to_ here is well illustrated by Mätzner, who compares Wycliffe's version of this very passage; 'As a moghe to the cloth, and a werm to the tree, so sorewe of a man _noyeth to_ the herte'; whereas Purvey's later version thrice omits the _to_. In the Persones Tale, Group I. 847, _anoyeth_ occurs both with _to_ and without it. 2188. _Us oghte_, it would become us; _oghte_ is in the subjunctive mood. Cf. _hem oughte_, it became them, in l. 2458; _thee oughte_, it became thee, in l. 2603.--Mr. The pres. indic. form is _us oweth_. [204] _Goodes temporels_; F. text, _biens temporels_. Chaucer uses the F. pl. in _-es_ or _-s_ for the adjective in other places, and the adj. then usually follows the sb. Cf. _lettres capitals_, capital letters, Astrolabe, i. 16. 8; _weyes espirituels_, spiritual ways, Pers. Tale, I. 79; _goodes espirituels_, id. 312; _goodes temporeles_, id. 685; _thinges espirituels_, id. 784.--Mr. 2190. See Job, i. 21. _Hath wold_, hath willed (it); see 2615. 2193. Quotations from Solomon and from Ecclesiasticus are frequently confused, both throughout this Tale, and elsewhere. The reference is to Ecclus. xxxii. 24, in the Vulgate (cf. A. V. xxxii. 19); here Wycliffe has:--'Sone, withoute counseil no-thing do thou; and after thi deede thou shalt not othynke' (i. e. _of-thinke_, repent). _Thou shalt never repente_; here Hl. has--'the thar neuer rewe,' i. e. it needeth never for thee to rue it. 2202. _With-holde_, retained. Cf. A. 511; Havelok, 2362.--Mr. 2204. _Parties_, &c.; Fr. text: _supporter partie_.--Mr. 2205. _Hool and sound_; a common phrase. Cf. Rob. of Glouc. pp. 163, 402, ed. Hearne (ll. 3417, 8301, ed. Wright); King Horn, l. 1365 (in Morris's Specimens of English); also l. 2300 below.--Mr.