A worse formed lady than shee was
Neuer man saw with his eye.'
1004. can, know; but the form is singular, to agree with folk. Cf. the proverb—'older and wiser'—in Hazlitt's Collection; and see A. 2448.
1018. wereth on, wears upon (her), has on; cf. l. 559 above.
calle, caul; a close-fitting netted cap or head-dress, often richly ornamented; see Fairholt, Costume in England, s. v. Caul.
1021. pistell, (1) an epistle, as in E. 1154; hence (2), a short lesson, as here.
1024. holde his day, kept his time, come back at the specified time. hight, promised.
1028. 'Queen Guenever is here represented sitting as judge in a Court of Love, similar to those in fashion in later ages.... Fontenelle (in the third volume of his works, Paris, 1742) has given a description of one of the fantastic suits tried in these courts.... The best source of information on these strange follies is a book entitled Erotica, seu Amatoria, Andreæ Capellarii Regis, &c., written about A.D. 1170, and published at Dorpmund in 1610.'—Bell.
1038. Cf. Gower, Conf. Amantis, i. 96:—