The epistle of Othea to Hector; or, The boke of knyghthodeChristine, de Pisan
Philosophy
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
Prov. ii. 10, 11.
Footnote 336:
Which, MS.
Footnote 337:
Ganymedes was son of Tros and brother of Ilus and Assaracus. His
well-known story is here confused with that of Hyacinthus, who was
accidentally killed in a game of discus with Apollo (Ovid, Met. x.
184).
Footnote 338:
Prov. xxiv. 6.
Footnote 339:
_Sc._ sheep.
Footnote 340:
_Sc._ wholly; du tout, H.
Footnote 341:
Descongnoissant et desloyaulx a celle qui trop de bien lui ot fait, H.
Footnote 342:
Comme vn vent sec, H.
Footnote 343:
Sap. xvi. 29.
Footnote 344:
Hym, MS.; ne la regardes, H.
Footnote 345:
Perseus, H.
Footnote 346:
Elsewhere it is Poseidon who was Medusa’s lover—Hanc pelagi rector
templo vitiasse Minervæ Dicitur (Ovid, Met. iv. 797). Her hair alone
was changed into serpents.
Footnote 347:
His his, MS.
Footnote 348:
“Holy chirche” is the translator’s addition, not being in H.
Footnote 349:
Le pouoir de plus mal faire, H.
Footnote 350:
He holde, MS.
Footnote 351:
_Sc._ shield.
Footnote 352:
Crisostome, H. and other Fr. MSS.
Footnote 353:
Comme cest impossible que le feu arde en leaue, aussi est ce
impossible que compunccion, _etc._, H. The translator’s omission of
the words in brackets was no doubt due to the repetition of
“impossible que.”
Footnote 354:
Ps. cxxv. (cxxvi.) 5. This is the only instance in which the quotation
at the end of an allegory is filled in.
Footnote 355:
Es liens Vulcanus et surpris, H.
Footnote 356:
That þat, MS.
Footnote 357:
ii^o (_sc._ two, deux), MS.; ala querre les autres dieux, H.
Footnote 358:
Que tel sen rioit, qui bien voulsist en semblable meffait estre
encheut, H.
Footnote 359:
Darguemie, _sc._ alchemy, H.
Footnote 360:
Read “But to our purpose it seith.” The translator has misread “Mais”
in the original as “Mars”; mais a nostre propos veult dire, H.
Footnote 361:
Que en tel cas ne soit surpris par oubli, H.
Footnote 362:
_Sc._ love.
Footnote 363:
Myght, MS.
Footnote 364:
Coniecture, H.
Footnote 365:
1 Pet. v. 8.
Footnote 366:
Tomyris, queen, not of the Amazons or “Femeny,” but of the Scythian
Massagetæ (Herod. i. 205).
Footnote 367:
Despris, _sc._ mépris, H.
Footnote 368:
_Sc._ ambushments.
Footnote 369:
Ne hayr, H.
Footnote 370:
De coenobiorum institutis, xii. 31 (Migne. xlix. 472).
Footnote 371:
Eccl. iii. 20.
Footnote 372:
Ne laisses ton sens _au_orter, H.
Footnote 373:
Sanuie (_sc._ s’ennuie) tost, H.
Footnote 374:
Prov. xxix. 15, somewhat corrupted in H.
Footnote 375:
_Sc._ mad, furious; du geant enragez, H.
Footnote 376:
The story was that Acis, son of Faunus, was beloved by the nymph
Galatea, and that the Cyclop Polyphemus, furious with jealousy,
crushed him beneath a huge rock (Ovid, Met. xiii. 750).
Footnote 377:
Qui Acis estoit nommez, H. The mistranslation in the text is
inexplicable.
Footnote 378:
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