Romance of the Rose (Ellis)

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THE
ROMANCE
of the ROSE
by W LORRIS
& J CLOPINEL
ENGLISHED
by F S ELLIS
VOL ONE

 

MDCCCC • PUBLISHED • BY • J • M • DENT
AND • CO : ALDINE HOUSE • LONDON • W • C

 

Frontispiece of vol. 1 of 1900 Ellis translation of the Romance of the Rose

THE
TEMPLE
CLASSICS

THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE

Englished and
Edited by

F. S. ELLIS

TABLE OF CHAPTERS

chap.			page
	Prologue		v
	Summary of Chapters in Volume I		xvii
	Principal Characters		xxxii
I.	lines 1-128, Fr. 1-130		1
⁠	⁠	The famed Romance that hight the Rose, Behold! love's art its leaves enclose.
II.	lines 129-528, Fr. 131-530		5
⁠	⁠	The Lover here essays to draw, The wondrous counterfeits he saw Painted along the garden wall. Before our eyes doth he recall, Lifelike, the semblance, form and fame Of cach, and tells thereof the name. And first, with lively pen, portrays Of Hate the direful works and ways.
III.	lines 529-742, Fr. 531-742		18
⁠	⁠	Here is described how Idleness Unto the Dreamer gave ingress.
IV.	lines 743-802, Fr. 743-796		25
⁠	⁠	Herein the Lover tells of Gladness: A dame is she who, casting sadness To the wild winds, doth nought but play And carol through the livelong day.
V.	lines 803-896, Fr. 797-890		27
⁠	⁠	Herein the Dreamer's pen doth draw The semblance of the dance he saw And joined in, and relates how she, Hight Courtesy, essays to be His guide, and gently tells him who Dance there, and all they say and do.
VI.	lines 897-1038, Fr. 891-1044		30
⁠	⁠	The Dreamer hear ye now declare What guise the God of Love doth bear.
VII.	lines 1039-1268, Fr. 1045-1264		35
⁠	⁠	Here tells the Dreamer of Richesse, Who counteth her of high noblesse, But so consumed is she with pride, That all poor men she casts aside, And therefore less beloved by far Than those who sweet and courteous are.
VIII.	lines 1269-1306, Fr. 1265-1300		42
⁠	⁠	Herein the author’s pen essays To show why Courtesy the praise Deserves of all men; love she spreads Around her wheresoe’er she treads.
IX.	lines 1307-1334, Fr. 1301-1328		43
⁠	⁠	And lastly here is told of Youth, Reckless, naive, and wild forsooth.
X.	lines 1335-1492, Fr. 1329-1486		44
⁠	⁠	The God of Love with care doth watch The Lover’s steps, in hope to catch Him unawares, and so the five Bright arrows through his heart to drive.
XI.	lines 1493-1536, Fr. 1487-1538		50
⁠	⁠	The author here of fair Narcisse Doth tell the tale, who was, ywis, Drawn on to love his proper shade, Seen in a well, and thereby made His life so wretched, that at last He pined and wasted till he passed To nothingness. His soul doth sit Beside the fount and dream of it.
XII.	lines 1537-1750, Fr. 1539-1740		51
⁠	⁠	This telleth how Narcissus sighed His soul away in tearful tide Through fond self-love; yet died he not. But lives within this fount, I wot.
XIII.	lines 1751-1960, Fr. 1741-1950		58
⁠	⁠	Herein the Dreamer telleth how He felt the shaft of Cupid’s bow, E’en as he sought his hand to close Around the stem, and snatch the rose, Whose fragrance though his soul had sent Such madness and bewilderment. But this, his fondest hope, denied The God of Love, who him espied.
XIV.	lines 1961-2030, Fr. 1951-2028		65
⁠	⁠	Herein is told how Love amain The Dreamer claims his prisoner—fain Is he to yield him at command, As liegeman ’neath his master-hand.
XV.	lines 2031-2076, Fr. 2029-2076		67
⁠	⁠	From Youth, which had deceived his heart, The Lover tears himself apart, And to the God of Love doth now In homage, as his liegeman, bow.
XVI.	lines 2077-2158, Fr. 2077-2158		69
⁠	⁠	This tells how Cupid skilfully The Lover’s heart with golden key Locked in such wise, that though his breast It entered, nought it harmed his vest.
XVII.	lines 2159-2878, Fr. 2159-2852		72
⁠	⁠	Herein the God of Love doth teach The Lover, and against the breach Of laws contained in this Romance He warns him, lest he err perchance.
XVIII.	lines 2879-2902, Fr. 2853-2876		95
⁠	⁠	The Lover plains that forth doth go The God, and leaves him lost in woe.
XIX.	lines 2903-3053, Fr. 2877-3028		96
⁠	⁠	Fair-Welcome here the Lover learneth How that for which his spirit yearneth May be attained, and courteously Leads where he sorely longs to be.
XX.	lines 3054-3064, Fr. 3029-3040		101
⁠	⁠	This tells how Danger, filled with ire, Expels, with ignominy dire, The Lover, and Fair-Welcome eke, Whose grief no words e’er framed could speak.
XXI.	lines 3065-3096, Fr. 3041-3072		102
⁠	⁠	Danger, fell guardian of the Rose, The Lover drives from out the close. Upon his neck a club he bare. As he a thief or madman were.
XXII.	lines 3097-3204, Fr. 3073-3178		103
⁠	⁠	How Reason, well-beloved of God, The Lover warns that he hath trod The path of folly, when above His reason, madly set he love.
XXIII.	lines 3205-3242, Fr. 3197-3218		106
⁠	⁠	Herein the Lover makes reply To Reason, who would Love decry.
XXIV.	lines 3243-3260, Fr. 3219-3236		108
⁠	⁠	Counselled by Love, the Lover makes Confession to his friend, and takes Thereby great comfort, seen that he The case aredeth skilfully.
XXV.	lines 3261-3288, Fr. 3237-3264		108
⁠	⁠	The Friend’s soft gentle words allay The Lover’s fears, and smooth his way.
XXVI.	lines 3289-3388, Fr. 3265-3363		109
⁠	⁠	The Lover loud to Danger cries For mercy, and with flattery plies His rugged soul, till thus he gains The boon wherefor he spends his pains.
XXVII.	lines 3389-3496, Fr. 3365-3474		113
⁠	⁠	This tells how Pity and Franchise went Together, fraught with good intent, To seek out Danger, and relate The Lover's woebegone estate.
XXVIII.	lines 3497-3622, Fr. 3475-3596		117
⁠	⁠	Fair-Welcome here the Lover brings, With many sweet-voiced welcomings, Within the cincture whence the Rose, Across the air its fragrance throws.
XXIX.	lines 3623-3688, Fr. 3597-3662		121
⁠	⁠	Queen Venus’ ardent torch doth fire The Lover’s bosom with desire So fervid, that he dares the Rose To kiss, in faith 'twill heal his woes.
XXX.	lines 3689-3830, Fr. 3663-3800		124
⁠	⁠	Here green-eyed Jealousy doth scold Fair-Welcome for the falsehoods told By Evil-Tongue against him, he Loves to load men with calumny.
XXXI.	lines 3831-3972, Fr. 3801-3932		129
⁠	⁠	Herein ’tis told how Fear and Shame, In deep concern, to Danger came, Demanding wherefore spared he blows ‘Gainst those who dared approach the Rose.
XXXII.	lines 3973-4314, Fr. 3933-4282		134
⁠	⁠	This tells how Jealousy, by spite Urged on, a towering prison dight Amidst the precinct, wherein she Immured Fair-Welcome, for that he Had let the Lover’s lips once press The Rose, through courteous kindliness.
XXXIII.	lines 4315-4496, Fr. 4283-4450		145
⁠	⁠	Dan William Lorris when he died, Had written nothing more beside The verses thou hast read. But when A forty years had flitted, then John Clopinel the end did speed— Behold his work, which all may read.
XXXIV.	lines 4497-5008, Fr. 4451-4952		151
⁠	⁠	Herein we meet again sweet Reason, Who ever, in or out of season, Findeth, before all else, delight For erring men the path to dight.
XXXV.	lines 5009-5902, Fr. 4953-5838		169
⁠	⁠	Herein the needy man doth stand Before his friend, and at his hand Requires that of his goods he give Fair share, that he in ease may live.
XXXVI.	lines 5903-5946, Fr. 5839-5888		200
⁠	⁠	Learn how Virginias made his plea To Appius, who corruptedly His fair and well-loved daughter gave To Claudius for his chattel slave.
XXXVII.	lines 5947-6228, Fr. 5889-6162		201
⁠	⁠	This telleth how—the judgment given— Virginius unto madness driven, Strake off his well-loved daughter’s head, Though to her life his life was wed, Preferring rather that his child Should die unstained than live defiled; Then the sad head to Appius sent, Who met his well-earned chastisement.
XXXVIII.	lines 6229-6518, Fr. 6163-6440		211
⁠	⁠	Unto the Lover Reason shows Dame Fortune’s wheel, and how it goes. Pointing that lack of power hath she O’er men, brave, resolute, and free.
XXXIX.	lines 6519-6576, Fr. 6441-6494		221
⁠	⁠	How Emperor Nero, in his mad And cruel unchecked fury, bade In daylight clear, before his eyes, His minions to anatomise His mother living, and the spot Disclose where he was erst begot.
XL.	lines 6577-6794, Fr. 6495-6710		223
⁠	⁠	How Seneca, that noble man, Succumbed beneath his pupil’s ban; Set in a bath to die was he, By Nero’s savage cruelty.
XLI.	lines 6795-6884, Fr. 6711-6796		230
⁠	⁠	This tells how Nero sought to hide Within a garden, where he died, Self-slain. Thus, coward-like, life’s stage He fled, nor dared the people’s rage.
XLII.	lines 6885-7606, Fr. 6797-7526		233
⁠	⁠	This tells how Phanie to the king Gave warning that his pride would bring Him shameful death. The dream but sung His knell, when he on gallows hung.

END OF VOL. I.

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Edinburgh & London

Vol. 1⁠

Vol. 2⁠

Vol. 3⁠

THE
ROMANCE
of the ROSE
by W LORRIS
& J CLOPINEL
ENGLISHED
by F S ELLIS
VOL TWO

 

MDCCCC • PUBLISHED • BY • J • M • DENT
AND • CO : ALDINE HOUSE • LONDON • W • C

 

Frontispiece of vol. 2 of 1900 Ellis translation of the Romance of the Rose

THE
TEMPLE
CLASSICS

THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE

Englished and
Edited by

F. S. ELLIS

TABLE OF CHAPTERS

chap.			page
	Summary of Chapters in Volume II		v
XLIII.	lines 7607-8184, Fr. 7527-8096		1
⁠	⁠	Herein is told how Reason left The ’wildered Lover all bereft Of comfort, but straightway a Friend He finds, whose words his woes amend.
XLIV.	lines 8185-8358, Fr. 8097-8266		21
⁠	⁠	Herein the Lover tells how he Misdoubts his triple enemy, But hopeth still beneath the brand To bring them of stern Justice’ hand.
XLV.	lines 8359-8466, Fr. 8267-8374		27
⁠	⁠	How Poverty doth make her plea To Dame Richesse most ruefully, Who listeth not her piteous word, But turns away as nought she heard.
XLVI.	lines 8467-8810, Fr. 8375-8712		30
⁠	⁠	The Friend the Lover doth remind That one man only did he find Faithful in poverty, but he Gave all he had, unstintingly.
XLVII.	lines 8811-8866, Fr. 8713-8772		41
⁠	⁠	This telleth how in days gone by Earth’s children had no treasury Or store of goods, but everything Was common, free of prince or king.
XLVIII.	lines 8867-8938, Fr. 8773-8848		43
⁠	⁠	This notes how ill-bred men will cry “Out” on their wives through jealousy, Calling them names I scarce dare tell, As minx, jade, harlot, Jezebel.
XLIX.	lines 8939-9056, Fr. 8849-8967		45
⁠	⁠	The jealous husband scolds his wife, Remonstrates, blames her course of life, And setteth forth his dire distress At that he calls her wantonness.
L.	lines 9057-9404, Fr. 8968-9307		49
⁠	⁠	How chaste Lucrece, through wrath she bare At heart, her noble bosom tare With murderous knife, and death did win In face of husband, sire, and kin.
LI.	lines 9405-9818, Fr. 9308-9696		61
⁠	⁠	Beauty and Ugliness assail Fair Chastity with such avail, That they subject her to their dame, Who loves to put chaste maids to shame.
LII.	lines 9819-9960, Fr. 9697-9842		74
⁠	⁠	The jealous husband, all a-heat, From scolding next proceeds to beat His wretched wife, and robe and hair Doth in his rage from off her tear.
LIII.	lines 9961-10060, Fr. 9843-9948		79
⁠	⁠	How Jason erstwhile ploughed the sea To seek the gold-fleece bravery, And by the folk, where’er he went, Was seen with fear and wonderment.
LIV.	lines 10061-10464, Fr. 9949-10358		82
⁠	⁠	Herein behold the manner how Men first agreed their necks to bow Beneath a king, and how he sware The sceptre loyally to bear.
LV.	lines 10465-10504, Fr. 10359-10398		95
⁠	⁠	The Lover makes no more delay, But leaves his friend, and seeks the way To where Fair-Welcome lies, for fain Is he to find him once again.
LVI.	lines 10505-10768, Fr. 10399-10662		97
⁠	⁠	The Lover findeth Dame Richesse, Who guards the path with carefulness By which the fortress may be ta’en Of those who scatter golden grain.
LVII.	lines 10769-10872, Fr. 10663-10764		106
⁠	⁠	With will to ease the Lover’s grief, Appeared to him his mighty chief, The God of Love, who pardoned him That he awhile had deigned to trim His ear to Reason, and, quoth he, Unreason shalt thou henceforth be.
LVIII.	lines 10873-10914, Fr. 10765-10806		109
⁠	⁠	Repeats the Lover, word for word, The lesson he from Cupid heard.
LIX.	lines 10915-10970, Fr. 10807-10864		112
⁠	⁠	Herein his barons, one and all, Doth Love to stalwart battle call By letter, which an envoy takes, Who no account of danger makes.
LX.	lines 10971-11412, Fr. 10865-11312		114
⁠	⁠	To all the host doth Love explain His purpose to assault and gain The castle, and Fair-Welcome free From out his bonds and slavery.
LXI.	lines 11413-11686, Fr. 11313-11576		128
⁠	⁠	Herein the God of Love retains False-Seeming as his man, and gains Applause thereby, the host doth ring With shouts to crown him Ribalds’ King.
LXII.	lines 11687-12084, Fr. 11577-11984		138
⁠	⁠	Learn how False-Seeming, traitor vile, Men’s hearts doth readily beguile, When grey and black he clothes him in, With saintly visage pale and thin.
LXIII.	lines 12085-12696, Fr. 11985-12592		151
⁠	⁠	False-Seeming doth the case relate Of mendicants and their estate.
LXIV.	lines 12697-12766, Fr. 12593-12666		172
⁠	⁠	False-Seeming as a pilgrim goes, Disguised, to Evil-Tongue; and shows Constrainèd-Abstinence likewise Herself to him in saintly guise.
LXV.	lines 12767-12846, Fr. 12667-12746		174
⁠	⁠	False-Seeming, linked with Abstinence, To aid the Lover makes pretence Of guesting with foul Evil-Tongue, Whose lash hath many a good man stung.
LXVI.	lines 12847-12952, Fr. 12747-12846		177
⁠	⁠	The Dreamer hear ye now declare What guise the God of Love doth bear.
LXVII.	lines 12953-13042, Fr. 12847-12932		181
⁠	⁠	False-Seeming lightly giveth mate To Evil-Tongue, with well-filed prate.
LXVIII.	lines 13043-13066, Fr. 12933-12956		184
⁠	⁠	How by a razor—not a sword— Met Evil-Tongue his just reward, Therewith False-Seeming cut his tongue From out his mouth—his knell was rung.
LXIX.	lines 13067-13270, Fr. 12957-13164		185
⁠	⁠	False-Seeming, who to lovers shows Sweet comfort, with his leman goes Across the threshold, with him he Doth Largess lead and Courtesy.
LXX.	lines 13271-13416, Fr. 13165-13310		192
⁠	⁠	The crone, desirous to console Fair-Welcome’s grief and bitter dole, The Lover’s story doth relate, Who is for him disconsolate.
LXXI.	lines 13417-13714, Fr. 13311-13598		197
⁠	⁠	Induced by what the hag bath said, Fair-Welcome setteth on his head The garland, and doth take therein A pledge to sell his very skin.
LXXII.	lines 13715-13876, Fr. 13599-13765		207
⁠	⁠	Herein the harridan prepares Fair-Welcome’s mind for love affairs, And shows how evil women may, In love, both go and lead astray.
LXXIII.	lines 13877-14554, Fr. 13766-14444		212
⁠	⁠	This tells how Dido, mighty queen Of Carthage, racked with sorrow keen For that great love she suffered through Æneas, with a sword-thrust slew Herself, and how fair Phillis won A cruel death through Demophon.
LXXIV.	lines 14555-14652, Fr. 14445-14542		234
⁠	⁠	How Vulcan once espied his wife Engaged with Mars in amorous strife, When cunningly he threw a snare Around the fond but guilty pair.
LXXV.	lines 14653-15408, Fr. 14543-15307		237
⁠	⁠	Herein example may you see Of Nature’s power and subtlety.

END OF VOL. II

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Vol. 1⁠

Vol. 2⁠

Vol. 3⁠

THE
ROMANCE
of the ROSE
by W LORRIS
& J CLOPINEL
ENGLISHED
by F S ELLIS
VOL THREE

 

MDCCCC • PUBLISHED • BY • J • M • DENT
AND • CO : ALDINE HOUSE • LONDON • W • C

 

Frontispiece of vol. 3 of 1900 Ellis translation of the Romance of the Rose

THE
TEMPLE
CLASSICS

THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE

Englished and
Edited by

F. S. ELLIS