Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 — Notes to the Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Mony metyn at on-sett stevyn.'

Cf. 'Wee may chance to meet with Robin Hood

Here att some unsett steven.'

Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne; in Percy's

Reliques of Eng. Poetry.

'Thei setten steuen,' they made an appointment; Knight de la Tour-Landry, ch. iii. And see below, The Cokes Tale:

'And ther they setten steven for to mete'; A. 4383.

1531. hir queynte geres, their strange behaviours.

1532. Now in the top (i. e. elevated, in high spirits), now down in the briars (i. e. depressed, in low spirits).