Chapter II: A Drunken Man

A dronke man wot wel he hath an hous,
But he not[I-8] which the righte wey is thider.

(_Knightes Tale_, vol. ii. p. 39.)

_Ryȝt as a dronke man not nat[I-9] by whiche paþe he may retourne
home to hys house._

(Chaucer’s Trans., p. 67.)

_Sed velut ebrius, domum quo tramite revertatur, ignorat._

(Boeth., lib. iii. pr. 2.)

[Footnote I-8: The Harl. MS. reads _not nat_, to the confusion of
the metre.]

[Footnote I-9: = ne wot nat = knows not.]