[404]. Departe it so, make this distinction.
[410]. frape, company, troop. Marked by Tyrwhitt as not understood. Other examples occur. 'With hem a god gret frape;' Adam Davy, &c., ed. Furnivall, p. 60, col. 1, text 3, l. 390; and see Allit. Morte Arthure, ed. Brock, 2163, 2804, 3548. Godefroy gives O. F. frap, a multitude, and frapaille, rabble.
[445]. 'And wished to be seised of that which he lacked.'
[497]. 'Or to enumerate all the looks and words of one that is in such uncertainty.'
[502]. as seith; but it does not appear that Boccaccio says anything of the kind. The same remark applies to l. 575.
[510]. Fulfelle is a Kentish form, the e answering to A. S. y. Similar forms occur in Gower. See note to Book Duch. 438.
[526]. Scan: Dréd | elées | it cleer,' &c. The sense is: 'it was clear, in the direction of the wind, from every magpie and every spoil-sport.' I. e. no one could detect them; they kept (like hunters) well to leeward, and there were no magpies or telltale birds to windward, to give an alarm.
[529]. Scan: In this matér-e, both-e frem'd. fremed, strange, wild.
[542]. holy, i. e. sacred to Apollo. From Ovid, Met. i. 566: 'laurea .. uisa est agitasse cacumen.'
[545]. 'And therefore let no one hinder him.'