1106. 'In each bar was a bezant-weight of gold.' A bezant was a gold coin, originally struck at Byzantium, whence the name. It 'varied in weight between the English sovereign and half-sovereign, or less'; New E. Dict.
1117. The false reading ragounces is easily corrected by the original. In Lydgate's Chorle and Bird, st. 34, we find:—'There is a stone which called is iagounce.' Warton rather hastily identifies it with the jacinth. Godefroy says that some make it to be a jacinth, but others, a garnet. Warnke explains iagunce (in Marie de France, Le Fraisne, 130) by 'ruby.'
1120. carboucle, carbuncle; see notes to Ho. Fame, 1352, 1363.
1137. That is, he would have expected to be accused of a crime equal to theft or murder, if he had kept in his stable such a horse as a hackney. The F. text has roucin, whence Chaucer's rouncy, in Prol. A 390.
1148. I. e. as if his wealth had been poured into a garner, like so much wheat. daungere here means 'parsimony.'
1152. I. e. Alexander was noted for his liberality.
1163. to hir baundon, (so as to be) at her disposal.
1182. adamaunt, lodestone; leyd therby, laid beside it.
1188. The form sarlynysh (in G.) evidently arose from the common mistake of reading a long s (ſ) as an l. The right reading is, of course, Sarsinesshe, i. e., Saracenic, or coloured by an Eastern dye. Compare the mod. E. sarsnet, a derivative from the same source.
1190. Her neck-band was thrown open, because she had given away the brooch, with which she used to fasten it.