v. 508. His hode all pounsed and garded]—hode, i. e. hood: pounsed, i. e. perforated, having small holes stamped or worked in it, by way of ornament—garded, i. e. adorned with gards, facings.
v. 510. quod] i. e. quoth.
v. 513. rounde] i. e. whisper,—or, rather, mutter, for Skelton (Garlande of Laurell, v. 250. vol. i. 372) and other poets make a distinction between whisper and round:
“Me lyste not now. whysper nether rowne.”
Lydgate’s Storye of Thebes, Pars Prima, sig. b vii. ed. 4to. n. d.
“Whisper and rounde thinges ymagined falsly.”
Barclay’s Ship of Fooles, fol. 208. ed. 1570.
“They’re here with me already, whispering, rounding.”
Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale, act i. sc. 2.
v. 521. hafte] See note on v. 138. p. 108.