'Qualis Hyperboreos ubi nubilus institit axes Iupiter, et prima tremefecit sidera bruma, Rumpitur Aeolia, et longam indignata quietem Tollit hiems animos, uentosaque sibilat Arctos; Tunc montes undaeque fremunt, tunc proelia caesis Nubibus, et tonitrus insanaque fulmina gaudent.' 885. _as now_, at present, at this time. Cf. the M. E. adverbs _as-swithe_, _as-sone_, immediately. From the Rom. de la Rose, 21479:-- 'Ne vous voil or ci plus tenir, A mon propos m'estuet venir, Qu' autre champ me convient arer.' 889. _I wol nat letten eek noon of this route_, I desire not to hinder eke (also) none of all this company. _Wol_ = desire; cf. 'I _will_ have mercy,' &c. 890. _aboute_, i. e. in his turn, one after the other; corresponding to the sense 'in rotation, in succession,' given in the New English Dictionary. This sense of the word in this passage was pointed out by Dr. Kölbing in Engl. Studien, ii. 531. He instanced a similar use of the word in the Ormulum, l. 550, where the sense is--'and ay, whensoever that flock of priests, being twenty-four in number, had all served once _about_ in the temple.' 901. _crëature_ is here a word of three syllables. In l. 1106 it has _four_ syllables. 903. _nolde_, would not: the A. S. _nolde_ is the pt. t. of _nyllan_, equivalent to _ne willan_, not to wish; cf. Lat. _noluit_, from _nolle_. _stenten_, stop. 'It _stinted_, and said aye.'--Romeo and Juliet, i. 3. 48. 908. _that thus_, i. e. _ye_ that thus. 911. _clothed thus_ (Elles.); _clad thus al_ (Harl.). [63] 912. _alle_ is to be pronounced _al-lè_. Tyrwhitt inserts _than_, then, after _alle_, against the authority of the best MSS. and of the old editions. Statius (Theb. xii. 545) calls this lady _Capaneia coniux_; see l. 932, below. He says all the ladies were from Argos, and their husbands were kings. 913. _a deedly chere_, a deathly countenance or look. 918. _we biseken_, we beseech, ask for. For such double forms as _beseken_ and _besechen_, cf. mod. Eng. _dike_ and _ditch_, _kirk_ and _chirch_, _sack_ and _satchel_, _stick_ and _stitch_. In the Early Eng. period the harder forms with _k_ were very frequently employed by _Northern_ writers, who preferred them to the palatalised _Southern_ forms (perhaps influenced by Anglo-French) with _ch_. Cf. M. E. _brig_ and _rigg_ with _bridge_ and _ridge_. 926. This line means 'that ensureth no estate to be (always) good.' Suggested by Boethius; see bk. ii. pr. 2. ll. 37-41 (vol. ii. p. 27). 928. _Clemence_, Clemency, Pity. Suggested by 'il tempio ... di Clemenza,' Tes. ii. 17; which again is from 'mitis posuit Clementia sedem,' Theb. xii. 482. 932. _Capaneus_, one of the seven heroes who besieged Thebes: struck dead by lightning as he was scaling the walls of the city, because he had defied Zeus; Theb. x. 927. See note to l. 912, above. 937. The celebrated siege of 'The Seven against Thebes'; Capaneus being one of the seven kings.