INDEX. 3,53. King Lear referred to, ii. Knight, the, described, 3. Knight, the, interferes to stop the Monk's tale, 357. Laborers, Statute of, xxiv. Labyrinth, the, of Minos, iii. 70. Lachesis, one of the Fates, ii. 622. Lachesse," or slackness, ii. 218. Ladies, a world of beautiful, iii. 537. Ladies from Thebes appeal to Theseus, 36. Ladies intercede for Palamon and Arcite, 67. Lamech and his "bigamy," 422; ii. 22, 371. Lancelot de Lake, the story of, 374. Laomedon, ii. 564. Largesse, a lady of Alexander's kin, iii. 247. Lark, the, heard in the morning, 57, 84. Latin of Oxford, xxiii. Latin the language of clerks, ii. 46. Latin used by the Summoner when drunk, 26. "Latin" used for speech, language, ii. 17. Latoun, a kind of brass, 28. Lavinia, daughter of Latinus, iii. 17. Lavinia, wife of Æneas, iii. 88. Laxatives prescribed to Chanticleer, 364. Lays, old, of Brittany, ii. 28. Leaf and the flower, iii. 81. Leaf, the Lady of the, iii. 547. Lechery, the sin of, ii. 234. Leechcraft, 104. Legend of good women ordered, iii. 9 Legenda Aurea, lxxvii. Lemuel, his advice in the Bible, 405. Leonard, St., iii. 5. Letter from Cryseyde in the Greek camp, ii. 680. ES3 Letter of Troylus to Cryseyde in the Greek camp, ii. 669 Letter-writing, 464. Liberality a remedy against avarice, ii. 230. Liberty desired by all, ii. 125. Liberty desired by women and men, ii. 31. Lich-wake. after the death of Arcite, 111. Lies and truth flying together, iii. 76. Life of Chaucer, xxxii. Life restored by a grain, iii. 641. Light an enemy of love, ii. 360 Light, invocation to, ii. 492. Light not good for sick folks' eyes, ii. 534. Lignano, John of, 509. Lily flower, the (the Virgin Mary), 230. Limitor, a, of Holderness in Yorkshire, and his tricks Lion, the book of the, 445; ii. 270. Lisping tongue, the, of the Friar, 11. Lithuania, 3. Livery, the, of certain of the Pilgrims, 15. Livy, ii. 321; iii. 551. Livy, his story of Virginia, 383. Lollards increase in numbers, xxvii. Loller, a, 212. Lollius, the author, ii. 399, 683; iii. 54. Longfellow, his Wapentake, cv. Longfellow's Dante referred to, ii. 331. Longfellow's Occultation of Orion, ii. 332. Longius, who wounded the Saviour with a spear, ii. 277. Looking, foolish, ii. 236. Lorris, Guillaume de, iii. 242, 361. Lot and his daughters, 401. Lounsbury, Professor, his edition of the Parlement of Love addresses the barons, iii. 412. Love and good fortune, iii. 393. Love at sight, ii. 393, 396. Love changeth oft, iii. 358. Love, Chaucer insensible to, ii. 330, 541. Love-days referred to, II; iii. 26. Love for chattels, iii. 394. Love greater than law, 45. Love, invoked, ii. 538. Love, refinements of, xxxi. Love, remedies of (Ovid's work suggested), 19 Love, the god of, and his traits, 63, 68. Love, the god of, described, iii. 238. Love, the medieval courts of, 348. INDEX. Love, the, of friendship, iii. 388. Love, true, described, iii. 517. Love, what it is, iii. 371. Love's conquest, iii. 275. Love's court, iii. 479. Love's statutes, iii. 488. Lover's malady, the, 53. Lovers and their distresses, iii. 559. Lovers fools, 69. Lovers now up, now down, 59. Lovers, rules for, iii. 277, 282. Lovers' vows forgotten, iii. 375. Loving an unknown person, the evil of it, iii. 11. Lowell, James Russell, xi. Lowell, J. R., his favorite line, lxxvii. 685 Lowell, J. R., his remark on the picture of Blanche, ii. 282. Lucan, in the House of Fame, iii. 55. Lucifer and his fall, 328. Lucina, ii. 618. Lucina besought by Aurelius, ii. 41. Lucina called upon, 80. Lucrece, ii. 321. Lucretia, her death, ii. 54. Lucretia, wife of Tarquinius Collatinus of Rome, iii. 88, 144. Lust, his appearance, iii. 517. Luxury among the lower orders, xxx. Lycurgus, king of Thrace, 81. Lydgate's opinion of Chaucer, lxxxvi. Lying, ii. 202. Lyma" and Lucy made their husbands die, 447- Mabinogion, the, referred to, ii. 4. Macrobius, the author, ii. 292. Macrobius, his commentary on the Dream of Scipio, 370; ii. 331. Magic, a tale of, ii. 29. Magic horse, mirror, and ring, ii. 5, 6, 7. Magic, tricks of, ii. 45. Magnanimity a species of strength, ii. 219. Manomet, 180. Malebouche, iii. 553. Malice and its varieties, ii. 16, 186. Mangonel, the, iii. 104. Manhood, the, of the Host of the Tabard, 30. Manners of the Prioress, 6. Manslaughter, ii. 197. Man's mortality, 113. Map, Walter, 444. Marcian, the African poet, 572. Marco Polo, his Travels a help to Chaucer in writing the Squire's Tale, ii. 1. Margaret, in Goethe's Faust, 187. Marriage a figure, ii. 246. Marriage a sacrament, 557. Marriage and its tribulations, 426. Marriage feast, a, iii. 179. Marriage, reasons for, 429. Marriage urged upon Walter of Lombardy, 513. Marrock, the strait of (Gibraltar), 185. Mars and his baneful influence, 179. Mars and Saturn, their bad aspects, ii. 518. Mars and Venus strive and are restrained by Jove, ga. Mars, his complaint, ii. 362. Mars, his "division," ii. 367. Mars, his influence, 442. Mars, his temple, 76. Mars, lord of the third heaven, ii. 357- Mars, the red statue of, 38, 78. Mars worshiped by Arcite, 90. Marsyas, the flute-player, iii. 45. Martyrdom offered to Cecilia and Valerian, ii. 72. Martyrs, Christian, 592. Mary of Egypt, 187. Mary, the Virgin, a prayer to, iii. 184. Massanissa, king of Numidia, ii. 331. Mates to be chosen by the birds, ii. 345. Mathurin, Saint, mentioned, 324. Matrimony the remedy against lechery, ii. 246. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, 249. Matthew on oaths, 407. Matthew, St., his words about hypocrites, iii. 448. Maudelayne, the Shipman's barge, 17. Mauny, Oliver de, 342. Mawmetrie forbidden, ii. 222. INDEX. Maximianus, his amatory elegies, 507. May addressed, 58. May and January wedded, 571. May and the beauties of nature, iii. 209. May and the birds, iii. 555. May hailed, iii. 529. May, the holts and hedges in, ii. 505. May, the month of, 4, 41; iii. 8o. May, the mother of glad months, ii. 428. Meals, the, of the Franklin, 14. Mean, the Golden, iii. 85. Medea, ii. 308; iii. 47. Medea and Hypsipyle, iii. 132. Medea and Jason, ii. 294. Medicine and its practice, 17. Megara, iii. 152. Meleager, 79. Melibeus and his wife Prudence, 250. Melibeus asks Prudence for more advice, 276. Melibeus gives up to Prudence, 313. Melibeus rejects the advice of Prudence, 259. Melpomene invoked, iii. 477. Men entice women to evil, iii. 52, 572. Merchandise, deceit in, ii. 225. Merchant, the, described, 11. Merchant, the, his wife, 553. Merchant, the, of St. Denis, 213. Merchant's cares, iii. 406. Mercury and its influence, 446. Mercury appears to Arcite, 53. Mercury, his "house," ii. 26. Mermaidens, birds called sirens in France, iii. 231. Messenger, a drunken, 197. Metellius (Valerius Maximus), 437. 687 Meun, Jean de, his part in the Komaunt of the Rose, iii. |