handling > treatment, management; hence: conduct cape > {Cloak with a hood}

309.32

Now when of meats and drinks they had their fill,
2 Purpose was moued by that gentle Dame,
Vnto those knights aduenturous, to tell
4 Of deeds of armes, which vnto them became,
And euery one his kindred, and his name.
6 Then Paridell, in whom a kindly pryde
Of gracious speach, and skill his words to frame
8 Abounded, being glad of so fit tyde
Him to commend to her, thus spake, of all well eyde.

1 Now when of meats and drinks they had their fill,

meats > foods, food had > [had had]

2 Purpose was moved by that gentle dame,

Purpose > [A] proposition gentle > noble; gentle

3 To those knights adventurous, to tell 4 Of deeds of arms which to them became,

became > [had] happened

5 And everyone his kindred, and his name. 6 Then Paridell, in whom a kindly pride