[159] Skeat.
[160] Skeat and Tyrwhitt.
[161] For the analysis of these two remarkable and elaborately worked-out characters, see Chaucer for Schools, p. 111.
[162] Basse Bretaigne in France, called anciently Britannia Armorica.
[163] See Notes to this tale, [p. 91], touching the homage paid to women during the middle ages.
[164] Penmark is placed on the maps on the western coast of Brittany, between Brest and Port l’Orient.
[165] The only means of subsistence a knight had was fighting—of course for hire.
[166] Backgammon.
[167] About the 20th of May by our almanac.
[168] Clerk at that time denoted a man of learning, and a student at the universities—generally in holy orders.