[17.] lord of Palatye. A Christian knight who kept possession of his lands by paying tribute to the Turks.
[18.] no maner wight. No sort of person. In early English the preposition was often omitted after manner. Observe the double negatives in these two lines.
[19.] bacheler. "A soldier not old or rich enough to lead his relations into battle with a banner. The original sense of the word is little, small, young, from Welsh bach."—Webster.
[20.] floytynge. Fluting. So, in Chaucer's "House of Fame," he says:
"And many a floyte and litlyng horne,
And pipes made of grene corne."
[21.] he. That is, the knight. The word yeman, or yeoman, is an abbreviation of yeongeman. As used by Chaucer, it means a servant of a rank above that of groom, but below that of squire. The present use of the word to signify a small landholder is of more modern origin.
[22.] pocok arwës. Arrows tipped with peacock feathers.
[23.] bracer. A kind of close sleeve laced upon the arm. "A bracer serveth for two causes, one to save his arme from the strype of the stringe, and his doublet from wearing; and the other is, that the stringe glidinge sharplye and quicklye off the bracer, maye make the sharper shoote."—Roger Ascham's Toxophilus, page 129.
[24.] Cristofre. An image of St. Christopher, which was thought to protect its wearer from hidden danger.
[25.] seynt Loy. St. Eloy, or Eligius.