2207. 'Heal, put a stop to, war by taking vengeance; a literal and very happy translation from the French--_aussi doit on guerir guerre par vengence_.'--Bell. Tyrwhitt omits the words _by vengeaunce_, and Lounsbury (Studies in Chaucer, i. 320) defends him, arguing that 'the physicians are represented as agreeing with the surgeons'; whereas Chaucer expressly says that 'they seyden a fewe wordes more.' The words 'by vengeaunce' are in all the seven MSS. and in the French original. Admittedly, they make nonsense, but the nonsense is expressly laid bare and exposed afterwards, when it appears that the physicians did _not really_ add this clause, but Melibeus dreamt that they did (2465-2480). The fact is, however, that the words _par vengence_ were wrongly interpolated in the French text. Chaucer _should_ have omitted them, but the evidence shews that he _did not_. I decline to falsify the text in order to set the author right. We should then have to set the French text right also! 2209. 'Made this matter much worse, and aggravated it.' 2210. _Outrely_, utterly, entirely, i. e. without reserve; Fr. text _tout oultre_. Not from A. S. _[=u]tor_, outer, utter, but from F. _oultre_, _outre_, moreover; of which one sense, in Godefroy, is 'excessivement.' See E. 335, 639, 768, 953; C. 849; &c. 2216. Fr. text--'en telle maniere que tu soies bien pourveu d'espies et guettes.'--Mr. 2218. _To moeve_; Fr. text, _de mouvoir guerre_; cf. the Lat. phrase _mouere bellum_.--Mr. 2220. The Lat. text has here _three_ phrases for Chaucer's 'common proverb.' It has: 'non enim subito uel celeriter est iudicandum, "omnia enim subita probantur incauta," et "in iudicando criminosa est celeritas," et "ad poenitendum properat qui cito iudicat."' Of these, the first is from Cassiodorus, Variarum lib. i. c. 17; and the second and [205] third from Publilius Syrus, Sententiae, 254 and 32 (ed. Friedrich, Berolini, 1880). For _iudicando_, as in some MSS., Friedrich has the variant _vindicando_. Cf. the Proverbs of Hending, l. 256: 'Ofte rap reweth,' haste often rues. See note to 2244. 2221. _Men seyn_; this does not necessarily mean that Chaucer is referring to a proverb. He is merely translating. The Lat. text has; 'quare _dici consueuit_, Optimum iudicem existimem, qui cito intelligit et tarde iudicat.' It also quotes two sentences (nos. 311 and 128) from Publilius Syrus: 'Mora omnis odio est, sed facit sapientiam'; and--'Deliberare utilia mora est tutissima.' Mätzner points out that there are two other sentences (nos. 659 and 32) in Publilius, which come very near the expression in the text, viz. 'Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia'; and--'Ad poenitendum properat, qui cito iudicat.' 2223. See John, viii. 3-8. For _he wroot_, Hl. has 'he_m_ wrot,' which is obviously wrong. 2227. _Made contenaunce_, made a sign, made a gesture. Among the senses of F. _contenance_, Cotgrave gives: 'gesture, posture, behaviour, carriage.'