Hoccleve, De Regimine Principum, ed. Wright, p. 15.
152. tretys, long and well-shaped. From O. F. traitis, Low Lat. tractitius, i. e. drawn out; from L. trahere. Chaucer found the O. F. traitis in the Romaunt of the Rose, and translated it by tretys; see l. 1216 of the E. version. Cf. fetis from factitius; l. 157. eyen greye. This seems to have been the favourite colour of ladies' eyes in Chaucer's time, and even later. Cf. A. 3974; Rom. Rose, 546, 862; &c. 'Her eyen gray and stepe'; Skelton's Philip Sparowe, 1014 (see Dyce's note).
'Her eyes are grey as glass.'—Two Gent. of Verona, iv. 4. 197.
'Hyr forheed lely-whyht,
Hyr bent browys blake, and hyr grey eyne,
Hyr chyry chekes, hyr nose streyt and ryht,
Hyr lyppys rody.'—Lives of Saints, Roxburgh Club, p. 14.
'Wyth eyene graye, and browes bent,
And yealwe traces [tresses], and fayre y-trent,
Ech her semede of gold;