[5]. The cushion was in favour at an early date; it is mentioned in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, “Whyssynes upon quelde-poyntes” (1340 c); in the Will of Edward the Black Prince in Nichol’s Royal Wills, “74 curtyns quissyns” (1361); Chaucer’s Troylus, “And down she sett here by hym upon a quysshon gold y-bete” (1229); Isumbras, “Bryn a chayere an a qwyschene” (1400); Wyclif, “Seetis of skynnes ethir cuyschuns” (1388) Wyclif, Ezek iii, “Woo to hem that sewen tegider cusshens” (1382); Mallory, “And there was laid a cusshyn of gold that he should knele upon” (1470–85); and Berners, Arth. Lyt. Bryt., “They set them down on cosshyns of sylke” (1530).
[6]. Cymbeline, Act II. Scene IV.
[7]. A heavy ribbed silk.
[8]. “Taunt him with the license of ink; if thou thou’st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy sheet of paper, although the sheet were big enough for the bed of Ware in England, set ’em down.”—Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene II.
[9]. This name occurs as early as 1301.
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