“And she came after in a gite of red.”
Chaucer’s Reves Tale, v. 3952. ed. Tyr.
v. 69. pranked with pletes]—pletes, i. e. plaits. “I Pranke ones gowne I set the plyghtes in order.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. cccxxi. (Table of Verbes).
v. 70. Her kyrtel Brystow red]—kyrtel; see note, p. 149. v. 1194.
“London hath scarlet, and Bristowe pleasaunt red.”
Barclay’s Fourth Egloge, sig. C iiii. ed. 1570.
“At Brystowe is the best water to dye reed.” Hormanni Vulgaria, sig. V ii. ed. 1530.
v. 74. gyse] i. e. guise, fashion.
v. 75. whym wham] i. e. something whimsically, fantastically devised. The word is frequently applied to articles of female finery by our early dramatists. In Ane Interlude of the Laying of a Gaist, we are told that the Gaist (ghost)
“stall fra peteouss Abrahame