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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2020
The modern reader is wont to take with quiet enjoyment the mild irony implied in the delightful spirit of camaraderie with which the Eagle addresses “Geffrey” in Chaucer's The Hous of Fame:
1 Book II, ll. 865–67.—All line references are to “The Hous of Fam” in The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. by W. W. Skeat, iv (Oxford, 1894).
2 J. M. Manly, Some New Light on Chaucer (New York, 1926), 4–18. See also Professor Manly's “Chaucer and the Rhetoricians” in Proceedings of the British Academy, xii (1926), 98.
3 Paul Abelson, The Seven Liberal Arts (New York, 1906), 1–71.
4 The most emphatic form. That there is a difference between ye and yis is attested to by Skeat in a note to line 599 of The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue, v, 418. He states there that the former merely asserts while the latter is much more forcible.
5 See “Chaucer and the Rhetoricians.”
6 Ibid., 98.
7 Ibid., 97.
8 The text of the first three has been edited by Edmond Farai in Les arts poétiques du XIIe et du XIIIe siècle (Paris, 1924). John of Garland's Poetria has been edited by G. Mari in Romanische Forschungen, xiii (1902), 883 ff. The Exempta honestae vitae has been edited by E. Habel in the same journal, xxix (1911), 131 ff.
9 Vide Henry Keil, Grammatici Latini (Leipzig, 1864), iv, 397–402.
10 Doctrinale, ed. by D. Reichling (Berlin, 1893), ll. 2445–2639.
11 Op. cit., 86–87.
12 Loc. cit., 920.
13 Manly, loc. cit., 95.
14 Loc. cit., 928.
15 Vide Poetria Nova, ll. 830–832; Documentum, iii, 1–3; and Poetria, ll. 15–16.
16 See table of concordance of the figures as prepared by Edmond Farai, op. cit., 52–54.
17 See Vinsauf's “Documentum,” ii, 48, in Farai, op. cit., 293.
18 Farai, op. cit., 321–327.
19 The Gorgianic figures arise from an effort to secure emphasis through repetition, symmetry, or antithesis. J. C. Robertson, after reviewing the evidence as to the identification of the Gorgianic figures, concludes that they are antithesis, parison, paromoion, and paronomasia. Vide The Gorgianic Figures in Early Greek Prose (Baltimore, 1893), 7.
20 Ll. 623, 625, 636–638, 822, 832.
21 This statement is based upon conclusions reached in my doctoral dissertation recently completed at the State University of Iowa.
22 In addition to the examples cited see ll. 615–616, 626, 664–665, 703–705, 730–731, 765–770, 790–793, 779–780, 802–806, 818, 834–836, 841–842, and 849.
23 See ll. 695–696, 740, 755–756, and 779–780.
24 This figure is included under both figures of words and figures of thought. All examples of contentio, other than those cited, are grouped together here. Ll. 647–649, 651, 654–656, 677–678, 715, 722, 735–736, 741–744, 746, 778, 804–805, 810, 833 and 837–838.
25 Other examples of this figure are found in ll. 676–679, 685–689, 742–743, and 783.
26 Ll. 737–752, 774–779, 787–806.
27 Ll. 659, 685–691, 692–696, 697–698, 769–770 789–821.
