The epistle of Othea to Hector; or, The boke of knyghthodeChristine, de Pisan
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The epistle of Othea to Hector; or, The boke of knyghthode
Christine, de Pisan
Fastolf, John, 1378?-1459; French poetry -- To 1500 -- Translations into English
Tethe, MS.; la mort, H.
Footnote 176:
_Sc._ vein; la veine, H.
Footnote 177:
Ps. xxx. 7.
Footnote 178:
_Sc._ drove; le desherita et chaca, H.
Footnote 179:
_Sc._ ere; peser la chose ains quil donne, H.
Footnote 180:
Ye, MS.
Footnote 181:
_Sc._ note; peuent notter tous sages, H.
Footnote 182:
Moralia, xxvii. 3 (Migne, lxxvi. 401).
Footnote 183:
Ps. xviii. 10.
Footnote 184:
No such work appears under the name of Cassiodorus.
Footnote 185:
Esdras iii. 12.
Footnote 186:
The translator, not Christine de Pisan, is responsible for making
Phœbe masculine.
Footnote 187:
Ep. ad Simplicianum (Migne, xvi. 1085).
Footnote 188:
Ne se plunge point, H.; non tristibus mergitur, St. Ambr.
Footnote 189:
Eccl. xxvii. 12.
Footnote 190:
Folowynge, MS. There is some confusion here in the translation, _cf._
en ce monde et que le bon esperit par son exemple [pot bien] ensuiuir
son bon pere Ihesu Crist et batailler contre les vices, H.
Footnote 191:
Ephes. vi. 12.
Footnote 192:
Soyes aourne de faconde, H. The translator seems to have
misinterpreted “faconde,” eloquence, speech, as “falchion.”
Footnote 193:
_Sc._ old; ce tapprendra Mercurius, H.
Footnote 194:
Qui vont deuant, H.
Footnote 195:
Luke x. 16.
Footnote 196:
_Sc._ By thy mother enough shall be assigned to thee; te liurera assez
ta mere, H. The MS. reads “modus,” and in the next line “bater”
(amere, H.).
Footnote 197:
Cuir-bouilli, leather boiled and moulded, while soft, into the
required shape.
Footnote 198:
No exposition of the Creed appears among the works of Cassiodorus.
Footnote 199:
_Sc._ light; lumiere, H.
Footnote 200:
Hebr. xi. 6.
Footnote 201:
Sittyng, MS., and so also below.
Footnote 202:
There seems to be some confusion here between Pallas the goddess and
Pallas son of Lycaon and reputed founder of Pallantium, in Arcadia.
Footnote 203:
? join; il doit aiouster sagece a cheualerie, H.
Footnote 204:
The whiche vertue, MS.
Footnote 205:
Hebrews vi. 18.
Footnote 206:
_Sc._ Penthesileia, queen of the Amazons.
Footnote 207:
Dont si noble voix est semee, H.
Footnote 208:
_Sic_, the first letter being of course the Fr. “d’.”
Footnote 209:
Expos. in Ps. xii. (Migne, lxx. 100).
Footnote 210:
Soubz la quelle [pluye] germe la bonne voulente, H.
Footnote 211:
Inimicis benevola, bonis suis superans malos, Cass.
Footnote 212:
1 Corinth, xiii. 4.
Footnote 213:
Narcissus, whose story is in Ovid, Met. iii. 341 sq.
Footnote 214:
Se esleua en si grant orgueil, H.
Footnote 215:
Cest a entendre loultrecuidance de lui meisme ou il se mira, H.
Footnote 216:
Thi, MS.; est sa vie contenue, H. The translator seems to have read
“toute nue.”
Footnote 217:
Job xx. 6, 7.
Footnote 218:
Wrongly translated. H. reads:
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