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

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Hure vysage was fair and tretys,

Hure body iantil and pure fetys,

And semblych of stature.'—Sir Ferumbras, l. 5881.

'Dame Gaynour, with hur gray een.'

Three Met. Romances, ed. Robson, p. 22.

'Hys eyen grey as crystalle stone';—Sir Eglamour, l. 861.

'Put out my eyen gray';—Sir Launfal, l. 810.

156. hardily is here used for sikerly, certainly; so also in E. 25.

undergrowe, undergrown; i. e. of short, stinted growth.