1698. Similarly, Adrastus stopped the fight between Tydeus and Polynices; Statius, Theb. i. Lydgate describes this in his Siege of Thebes, pt. ii, and takes occasion to borrow several expressions from this part of the Knightes Tale. 1706. _Ho_, an exclamation made by heralds, to stop the fight. It was also used to enjoin silence. See ll. 2533, 2656; Troil. iv. 1242. 1707. _Up peyne_ is the old phrase; as in '_up peyne_ of emprisonement of 40 days'; Riley's Memorials of London, p. 580. 1736. _it am I._ 'This is the regular construction in early English. In modern English the pronoun _it_ is regarded as the direct nominative, and _I_ as forming part of the predicate.'--M. 1739. 'Therefore I ask my death and my doom.' 1747. _Mars the rede._ Boccaccio uses the same epithet in the opening of his Teseide, i. 3: '_O Marte rubicondo._' _Rede_ refers to the colour of the planet; cf. Anelida, 1. 1761. This line occurs again three times; March. Tale E. 1986; Squieres Tale, F. 479; Legend of Good Women, 503. 1780. _can no divisoun_, knows no distinction. 1781. _after oon_ = after one mode, according to the same rule. 1783. _eyen lighte_, cheerful looks. 1785. See the Romaunt of the Rose, 878-884; vol. i. p. 130. 1799. 'Amare et Sapere vix Deo conceditur.'--Publius Syrus, Sent. 15. Cf. Adv. of Learning, ii. proem. § 15--'It is not granted to man to love and to be wise'; ed. Wright, p. 84. So also in Bacon's 10th Essay. The reading here given is correct. _Fool_ is used with great emphasis; the sense is:--'Who can be a (complete) fool, unless he is in love?' The old printed editions have the same reading. The Harl. MS. alone has _if that_ for _but-if_, giving the sense: 'Who can be fool, if he is in love?' As this is absurd, Mr. Wright _silently_ inserted _not_ after _may_, and is followed by Bell and Morris; but the latter prints _not_ in italics. Observe that the line is deficient in the first foot. Read:--Whó | may bé | a fóol, &c. 1807. _jolitee_, joyfulness--said of course ironically. 1808. _Can ... thank_, acknowledges an obligation, owes thanks. 1814. _a servant_, i. e. a lover. This sense of _servant_, as a term of gallantry, is common in our dramatists. 1815, 1818. Cf. the Teseide, v. 92. 1837. _looth or leef_, displeasing or pleasing. 1838. _pypen in an ivy leef_ is an expression like 'blow the buck's-horn' in A. 3387, meaning to console oneself with any frivolous [75] employment; it occurs again in Troilus, v. 1433. Cf. the expression 'to go and whistle.' Cf. 'farwel the gardiner; he may pipe with an yue-leafe; his fruite is failed'; Test. of Love, bk. iii; ed. 1561, fol. 316. Boys still blow against a leaf, and produce a squeak. Lydgate uses similar expressions:-- 'But let his brother blowe in an horn, Where that him list, or pipe in a reede.' Destruction of Thebes, part ii.