Yet I full feyne Wolde me compleyne, Me to absteyne From thys penaunce. But in substaunce, Noon allegeaunce1 Of my grevaunce Can I nat fynde ; Ryght so my chaunce, With displesaunce, Doth me avaunce; And thus an ende. CHAUCER'S PROPHESY. WHAN prestis faylin in her sawes, And lecherie is holden as privy solas, Bewar than of ille. Than schall the lond of Albion Turnin to confusion, As sumtyme it befelle. 1 Alleviation. 30 40 GO FORTH, KING. 655 Ora pro Anglia, Sancta Maria, quod Thomas Cantuaria. Sweete Jhesu, heven-king, Fayr and beste of all thyng, GO FORTH, KING. Go forth, King, rule thee by sapience ; People, obey your king and the law; Age, be ruled by good religion; True Servaunt, be dredful and keep thee under law; And, thou Poore, fie on presumpcion ! Inobedience to Youth is utter destruction; Remember how God hath set you, lo, you And doe your part as ye be ordained to. INDEX. [IN MAKING Reference to the pages of the first VOLUME THE Aaron, and his fasting, 493. Abbeys cursed, iii. 519. Abigail and Nabal, 559. Absalom, iii. 88. Absolon, the parish clerk, 124. Absolon's ornamented shoes, 125. Absolution, the, of the Friar, 9. Abstinence a remedy against gluttony, ii. 233. 'Accidie," negligence arising from discontent, ii. 212. Acerbas, called Sichæus, iii. 19, 119. Achilles, iii. 15. Achilles and Hector, ii. 294. Acteon, 79. Adam and Eve, 557. Adam, Chaucer's scrivener, ii. 691. Adam driven out of Paradise for eating, 402. Adam, his fall the source of sin, ii. 164. Adam in the field of Damascus, 328. Adam the father of all, ii. 190. Adolphus, the fables of, 590. Adornment of the temple of Mars, 76. Adrastus, one of the Seven who went against Thebes, 36; ii. 370. Adultery and its perils, ii. 239. Adultery, the sin of, ii. 235. Advocate, an, advises Melibeus, 255. Advocates and physicians labor for lucre, iii. 406. Advocato et Diabolo, a story like the Friar's Tale, 469. Æmilian road, the, 510. Æneas, his flight from Troy, iii. 7. Eneas in "paradise," iii. 122. Eneid, the first lines of, quoted, iii. 6. Æolus, god of wind, iii. 57. Æson, iii. 133. Agaton, an unknown writer, iii. 100. Age grown shorter than she was, iii. 219. Age, its safety, iii. 377, 379. Agenor's daughter, iii. 83. Agraulos, ii. 518. Ahithophel, ii. 322. Alanus de Insulis, the "Universal Doctor," ii. 99, 342 ; Albertano of Brescia, 249. Albertano of Brescia, his Consolatione et Consilii, lxxii. Alcathoë, i. e., Megara, iii. 152. Alceste, ballad sung to, iii. 88. Alchemists, their practices, ii. 88, etc. Alcoran, the, of Mahomet, 180. Aldine Chaucer, the, x. Aldiran, the star, ii. II. Ale-stake, an, 27. Alexander, Aristotle's instructions to, ii. 117. Alexandria, 3. Alexandria, Rome, Troy, and Nineveh, ii. 100. Algezir, the siege of, 3. Algous, the inventor of the abacus, ii. 298. Alhazen, Arabian astronomer, ii. 10. Alice, the carpenter's wife, serenaded, 126. Alla in Rome, 205. Alla, king of Northumberland, 190. Alla meets Custance in Rome, 207. Alla mourns for his wife and child, 201. Alliteration, ii. 134. Almachius, prefect of Rome, ii. 76. Almagest, the, of Ptolemy, 426, 432. Alma redemptoris, 232. Almsdeeds, ii. 262. Alnath, the star, ii. 50. Alphabet, the Old English, v. Alphonsus of Lincoln, 239. Ambrose quoted, ii. 137. Americanism, an, 511. Amour, William St., iii. 443. |