Note 152 — BOOK II.
Reading edition
Here Dryden mistakes his author's meaning, though he employs his word. Chaucer says,
"Pity renneth sone in gentel herte:"
That is, in the heart of a man of gentle, or noble birth.
Reading edition
Here Dryden mistakes his author's meaning, though he employs his word. Chaucer says,
"Pity renneth sone in gentel herte:"
That is, in the heart of a man of gentle, or noble birth.