TR4.281 “Ǐf thát Crǐséyde ǎllóně wére mě láft, TR4.282 Nǒught róughte Ǐ whíděrwárd thǒw wóldest mě stéerě; TR4.283 Ǎnd híre, ǎllás, thǎn hástǒw mé bǐráft. TR4.284 Bǔt éverěmóre, lǒ, thís ǐs thí mǎnérě, TR4.285 Tǒ réve ǎ wíght thǎt móst ǐs tó hy̌m déerě, TR4.286 Tǒ préve ǐn thát thǐ gérfǔl víǒléncě. TR4.287 Thǔs ám Ǐ lóst; thěr hélpěth nó dǐfféncě.
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- Differences among the manuscripts and editions:
- English translations (Windeatt: 1998): If Criseyde were left to me, I wouldn’t care wherever you wanted to steer me; and alas, you have taken her from me. But this is always your way, I see, to take away from a person that which is most dear to him, to demonstrate through that your unpredictable violence. So I am lost: no remedy can help me!
- Japanese translations (Sasamoto: 2012): もしクリセイデだけをおれのところに残してくださるなら、貴女はおれをどこへ導こうとおれは気にならないだろう。だのに、ああ、貴女は彼女をおれから奪い取ってしまわれた。しかし、ほら、これはいつもの貴女のやり方だ、最も大事なものを人から取り去り、それをして貴女の予測できない暴力を証明するやり方だ。おれは力尽きた。まったく手の施しようがない。
- Chinese translations (Fang: 1956): 只要有克丽西德伴着我，我哪里还管你把我转驶何方；可是你竟单把她掠去了。这是你的惯技，将一个亲爱的人隔离，好证实你那诡谲莫测的凶恶手段。我已绝路了，再无可救的了。
Word Information
- Etymology: From gere
- Addresser: Troilus
- Addressee: N/A
- Adjectives with which juxtaposed: N/A
- Counterpart in its source (Fil): 4.32
- Noun(s) (NPs) modified: manner of action (violence)
- Attributive/ Predicative: attributive
Information in Previous Studies
- OED: (Quoted) Obsolete. = gerish adj. (s.v. † gerful, adj.); Changeful, fitful; wild, wayward. (s.v. † gerish, adj.)
- MED: (Quoted) 1. Changeable, capricious. (s.v. gērful, adj.)
- Commented in other previous works:
- Windeatt (2003: 210): gerful: unpredictable
- Fisher (1989: 481): gerful: changeable
- Benson (1987: 542): gerful: unpredictable
- Davis et al. (1979): (Quoted) changeable (s.v. gerful, adj.)
- Donaldson (1975: 885): geerful: changing
- Baugh (1963: 159): gerful: changeable, wayward
Possible Definitions
changeable, unpredictable
Comments from the Editor
Fortune is often described as changeable. See also my comment of ‘dere’ (adj., Tr4.285).