INDEX.

Philogenet," of Cambridge, clerke," iii. 511.
Philology and Mercury, iii. 36.

Philology and Mercury, their marriage, 572.
Philomena, daughter of Pandion, iii. 165.
Philosopher, a, cured of anger, ii. 211.
Philosopher's stone, the, ii. 95..

Philosophy, the teachings of, iii. 404.
Philostrate endears himself to Theseus, 56.
Philostrate, the assumed name of Arcite, 55.
Phlegethon, the river of hell, ii. 551.
Phoebus, a lusty bachelor, ii.

Phoebus dyed the tresses of Virginia, 385.

Phonetic spelling, xcix.

Phyllis and Demophoön, ii. 308; iii. 89, 171.

Phyllis, daughter of Lycurgus, ii. 341.

Physicians and advocates labor for money, iii. 406.

693

Physicians of Arabia (Haly, Serapion, and Avicenna),
18.

Physiologus, a work on natural history, 376.

Piers, the name of the Monk, 358.

Piers the Plowman, The Vision concerning, xx.

Pierus, the daughters of, 171.

Pilate's voice, 117.

Pilgrimages, places of, mentioned, 19.

Pilgrims and shipmen carry news, iii. 77.

Pilgrims, the, indignant at the doings of Appius and

Člaudius, 394.

Pimples, the, on the Summoner's face, 25.

Pipe in an ivy leaf, 70; ii. 674.

Pisces, the zodiacal sign, ii. II.

Pity a remedy against avarice, ii. 226.

Pity for the faults of others, ii. 262.

Pity in gentle heart, a favorite line with Chaucer, 68,

193, 581; ii. 19; iii. 99.

Pity intercedes with Danger, iii. 330.

Pity is dead, ii. 278.

Pity, the sepulchre of, iii. 503.

Pity's shrine, iii. 527.

Placebo, a complaisant person, 562.

Placebo, singing it a sign of complacency, 499.

Plagues, the, of Egypt, ii. 325.

Plan for tales on the road to Canterbury, 30.

Planctu Naturæ, the, of Alanus de Insulis, ii. 342.
Plato on sound, iii. 28.

Plato on spiritual bodies, iii 34.

Plato quoted, ii. 127.

Plato quoted as an authority for plain speech, 29
Platonic year, cxii.

Pleiades, the, ii. 297; iii. 37.

Plowman, the, described, 21.

Plutarch, iii. 102.

Pluto and Proserpine converse, 590.

Pluto interferes between Arcite and Palamon, 101.

Pluto interferes to protect January, 595.

Point device, 148.

Poison bought by the rioter, 415.

Polo, Marco, lxxvi.

Polyxena, ii. 321, 402; iii. 88.

Pompey, conqueror of the Orient, 354.

Poor man, the, has no dread, iii. 402.

Pope and friars put in opposition, iii. 458.

Pope, the, calls himself servant of the servants of God

ii. 225.

Pope-holy outwardly nice, iii. 222.

Pope's Temple of Fame referred to, iii. 41.

Porthors, my, 217.

Potentate, an irous, 498.`

Poudre-marchant, a flavoring powder, 16.

Poverty a mirror, 465.

Poverty an honest thing, 464.

Poverty, naked as a worm, iii. 223.

Poverty separates truth from falsehood, iii. 401.

Prayer necessary, 281.

Prayers, ii. 263.

Preachers laboring for lucre, iii. 407.

Precedence at services of the church, 18.

Precedence in going to church, 15, 18.

Precedence of the Pilgrims not always observed by Chau

cer, 29.

Predestination discussed, ii. 595.

Predication, a good, from an evil intention, 400; iii. 408
Preordination, 374.

Prescience, the, of God, ii. 596.

Priapus, the god, 583; ii. 340.

Pride, ii. 174.

Pride of establishment, ii. 181.

Pride of table, ii. 181.

Pride in horses, ii. 180.

Pride, sources of, ii. 182.

Fride to be avoided in leve, iii. 285

Pride, Vilany, Shame, Wanhope, and New-thought, the

five arrows of Sweet-looking, iii. 241.

Priests, angels, ii. 242.

Prime, cxiii.

Primum mobile, the, cxviii.

Prioress, the, described, 5.

Prison cannot bind the heart, iii. 359.

Privacy impossible in Old English houses, xxx.

Privy-thought, iii. 525.

Progne, daughter of Pandion, wife of Tereus, turned into

a swallow, ii. 428; iii. 165.

Prolixity inconvenient, ii. 16.

Prometheus and Sisyphus confounded, ii. 414.

Promptness in giving alms, ii. 262.

Prose, Chaucer's, lxxxvi.

Proserpine, ii. 576.

Protesilaus and his true wife, ii. 56.

Proteus and his changes, iii. 427.

Proverb, a, quoted by the Wife of Bath, 444.

Providence not to be complained of, 48.

Providence, the eternity of, 113.

Prudence, her three eyes, ii. 649.

Prudence puts on an appearance of wrath, 311.
Prussia, 3.

Ptolemy referred to, 121.

Ptolemy's Almagest, 426, 432.

Puella and Rubeus, 78.

Pun on the word eructavit, 494.

Punch, the London, ii. 353.

Purchase better than rent, 475; iii. 446.

Purse, complaint to, xlix.

Purse, the archdeacon's hell, 26.

Pygmalion, the artist, 384.

Pyramus and Thisbe, 586; iii. 107.

Pyroeis, ii. 555.

Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, 178, 379; iii. 7.

Pythagoras, his representation of the dilemma, ii. 306.

Pythagorean doctrine of the harmony of the spheres, il

332.

Python, the serpent, ii. 123.

Questio quid juris, 26.

Question, a, for lovers, 52.

Quicksilver and other metals used by the alchemists, i

Radix, from which celestial calculations are made, 179.
Radix, or root, cxii.

Raffles, backgammon, and other forbidden games, ii. 228
Raids made by the Knight, 3.

Rain, a great, ii. 516

Rain and pestilence in the fourteenth century, iii. 194.
Ram, the, a prize at wrestling-matches, 22.

Ram, the sign of, I; ii. 16.

Ravishing of women the cause of the Trojan war, ii. 579

Reason comes from her tower, iii. 318.

Reason comes to the Lover, iii. 367.

Reason goes away, iii. 323.

Reason speaks, iii. 319.

Reason's sermon spoiled by Love, iii. 386

Rebellion of 1381, xxv.

Recklessness, ii. 216.

"Recreant,” the saying of the word without need, ii. 215

Redemption through Mary, iii. 186.

Reeve, the, described, 24.

Relics, the, of the Pardoner, 28, 396, 418.

Religious and secular folk contrasted, iii. 421.

Remedy against anger, ii. 209.

Remedy against avarice, ii. 229.

Remedy against envy, ii. 190.

Remedy against gluttony, ii. 233.
Remedy against lechery, ii. 245.
Remedy against pride, ii. 185.

Remedy against sloth, ii. 219.

Rennes in Brittany, its cloth, ii. 291.

Retraction, Chaucer's, lxxix; ii. 269.

Rhasis, the Spanish Arab of the tenth century, 18.

Rhea-Cybele, the goddess of fecundity, iii. 100.

Rhodogune, daughter of Arsaces VI., ii. 56.

Ribauds, Le Roy des, iii. 419.

Ribibe, an old, 125, 472.

Rich always loved, iii. 394.

Richard II., his reign, xxiv.

Riches a cause of sorrow, 49.

Riches good to have, 301.

Riches, the mischiefs of gathering, iii. 408.

Richesse, a lady in the Romaunt of the Rose, iii. 242.

Rigor, an officer in the Court of Love, iii. 495.

Rioters, the, of Flanders, 400.

River, hawking for water-fowl, 453.

Robin, joly, a character like Maid Marian, iii. 467.

Rochelle, the wine of, 404.

Rochester mentioned, 325.

Rocks, the black, on the coast of Brittany, ii. 34.
Roland betrayed by Genelon, ii. 322.

Roland of Roncesvalles, 220.

Romaunt of the Rose referred to, 583.

Romaunt of the Rose, the story painted, ii. 294.

Romulus, ii. 560; iii. 22.

Ronyan, the saint, 394.

Rose of the Blessed, the, of Dante, iii. 230.

Rose, the, kissed, iii. 338.

Roses, a great heap of, iii. 265.

Rosiall, iii. 504.

Rosicrucians, the, ii. 117.

Rossetti, William M., his study of Troylus and Cryseyde,

lxii.

Round Table, the knights of the, iii. 550.

Roundelay, a, ii. 355.

Russell, the fox, 378.

Russia, 3.

Sacrifices at marriage feasts, iii. 179.

Sacrilege, ii. 229.

Saints, many, iii. 424.

Saints that have not taken the priestly garb, iii. 425.

Saluces, rejoicing at, 523.

"Sampsoun," the utterance of a drunken man, 404.

Samson, 446; iii. 497.

Samson and Delilah, ii. 309.

Samson and his fall, 329.

Sarai, on the Volga, the capital of Batu Khan, ii. 1.

Satan waits to beguile Custance, 190.

Satisfaction, the third requisite for penitence, ii. 261.

Saturn and his orbit, iii. 53.

Saturn, his bad "aspects," iii. 178.

Saturn interferes to make peace between Venus and

Mars, 93.

Saturn, the "mother's sire" of Proserpine, 591.

Scantness of clothing, ii. 177.

School terms scouted by January, 566.

Scipio's dream, 370; ii. 292; iii. 19, 34, 207.

Scogan referred to by Shakespeare and Jonson, iii. 193.

Scorning, ii. 206.

"Scot," the Reeve's horse, 25.

acourging the body, ii. 265.