Note 562
The Reeve’s Tale.
These tears are shed over past separation. So the "Indians" of the New World never meet after long parting without beweeping mutual friends they have lost.
…aw he was our go between. Presently in came the handmaiden, my mistress, walking straight up to us; and I rose to her and embraced her while she kissed me and shed tears.[FN#562] We talked awhile; after which she made me get into one of the chests which she locked upon me. Presently the other eunuchs came back with a quantity of packages and she fell to stowing them in the chests, which she locked down, one by one, till all we…
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