"For all his armour was like salvage weed
With woody mosse bedight, and all his steed
With oaken leaves attrapt, that seemed fit
For salvage wight, and thereto well agreed
His word, which on his ragged shield was writ,
Salvagesse sans finesse,[233:1] shewing secret wit."
wight. Person. From A.-S. wiht.
"For every wight that loved chevalrie."
—Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, 2105.
griesly. Dreadful. From A.-S. grislic; agrisan, to dread. Grisly.
[10.] bedight. Covered. From dight, to dress, to deck. A.-S. dihtan.
[11.] fire-spitting. "Spett seems anciently to have more simply signified disperse, without the low idea which we at present affix to it."—Warton.
[12.] entayle. Sculpture, carving. Compare intaglio.
[13.] antickes. Odd, or fantastic, forms. From Lat, antiquus, ancient.
[14.] of Mulcibers devouring element. By fire. Mulciber is a surname of Vulcan, "which seems to have been given him as an euphemism, that he might not consume the habitations and property of men, but kindly aid them in their pursuits."