P. Plowman, A. vii. 309 (B. vi. 325; C. ix. 347).
2491-525. Cf. the Teseide, vii. 95-99.
2504. Gigginge, fitting or providing (the shield) with straps. Godefroy gives O. F. guige, guigue, a strap for hanging a buckler over the shoulder, a handle of a shield. Cotgrave gives the fem. pl. guiges, 'the handles of a target or shield.' In Mrs. Palliser's Historic Devices, p. 277, she describes a monument in St. Edmund's chapel, in Westminster Abbey, on which are three shields, each with 'the guige or belt of Bourchier knots formed of straps.' In the M. E. word gigginge, both the g's are hard, as in gig (in the sense of a two-wheeled vehicle).
Layneres lacinge, lacing of thongs; see Prompt. Parv., s. v. Lanere.
In Sir Bevis, ed. Kölbing, p. 134, we find—
'Sir Beues was ful glad, iwis,
Hese laynerys [printed layuerys] he took anon,
And fastenyd hys hawberk hym upon.'
2507. Shakespeare seems to have observed this passage; cf. Hen. V. Act 4. prol. 12.
2511. Cf. House of Fame, 1239, 1240:—