TR5. 806 Crĭséydĕ ménĕ wás ŏf híre stătúrĕ;
TR5. 807 Thĕrtó ŏf sháp, ŏf fáce, ănd ék ŏf chéerĕ,
TR5. 808 Thĕr mýghtĕ bén nŏ fáirĕr créătúrĕ.
TR5. 809 Ănd óftĕ týmĕs thís wăs híre mănérĕ:
TR5. 810 Tŏ gón y̆tréssĕd wíth hĭre hérĕs clérĕ
TR5. 811 Dŏun bý hĭre cólĕr át hĭre bák by̆hýndĕ,
TR5. 812 Whĭch wíth ă thréd ŏf góld shĕ wóldĕ býndĕ;

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• Differences among the manuscripts and editions:
• English translations (Windeatt: 1998): Criseyde was of average height; there could not be a more beautiful creature in figure, in face, and also in manner. And this was often her custom: to go with her shining hair down over her collar at the back in plaits, which she would tie with a golden thread.
• Japanese translations (Sasamoto: 2012): クリセイデは背丈については高からず低からず、加えて、姿、顔かたち、物腰の点では、誰よりも美しくすぐれていた。そしてしばしこのような身だしなみをした。輝く髪を編み、後ろの襟元にそれを垂らし、よく一本の金糸で結わえて出歩いた。
• Chinese translations (Fang: 1956): 克丽西德身段玲珑，她的体态，容貌，以及表情等确是超群。她常爱编起光耀的头发，披过头项，用一根金丝束住。

Word Information

• Etymology: OF
• Addresser: Narrator
• Addressee: N/A
• Adjectives with which juxtaposed: N/A
• Counterpart in its source (Fil): N/A
• Noun(s) (NPs) modified: human beings (female: Criseyde)
• Attributive/ Predicative: predicative 

Information in Previous Studies

• OED: II. Moderate, middling; average. †7. Not much above or below the average; moderate, mediocre, middling. a. Moderate or middling in size, stature, or age. (s.v. mean, adj.2)
• MED: 1. (c) moderate in size or quantity; ~ assise [see assise n. 6]; ~ consoude [see consoude];  (s.v. mēne, adj.(2))

• Commented in other previous works:
• Windeatt (2003: 302): Criseyde mene was of hire stature: Criseyde was of average height
• Fisher (1989: 516): mene: average
• Benson (1987: 571): mene … of hire stature: of moderate size, not too tall
• Davis et al. (1979): 1. average (s.v. me(e)ne, adj.)
• Donaldson (1975: 962): mene: midding
• Baugh (1963: 194): mene: average

Possible Definitions

average (in stature)

Comments from the Editor

See my comment of ‘cler’ (adj., Tr5.810).