v. 181. vol. i. 318.
v. 1397. barbican] “A Barbican, antemurale, promurale, tormentorum bellicorum sedes, locus.” Coles’s Dict. “It was generally,” says Nares (referring to King on Anc. Castles, Archael.), “a small round tower, for the station of an advanced guard, placed just before the outward gate of the castle yard, or ballium.” Gloss. in v. And see Richardson’s Dict. in v.
Page 416. v. 1398. sawte] i. e. assault.
v. 1399. blo] i. e. livid: see note, p. 103. v. 3.
v. 1400. Of Exione, her lambis, &c.] See note ad loc. If the reader understands the line, it is more than I do.
Page 417. v. 1407. forster] i. e. forester.
v. 1409. to yerne and to quest] Coles renders both these hunting-terms by the same word, “nicto” (i. e. open, give tongue). Dict. Turbervile, enumerating “the sundry noyses of houndes,” tells us that “when they are earnest eyther in the chace or in the earth, we say They yearne.” Noble Art of Venerie, &c. p. 242. ed. 1611. “Quest, united cry of the hounds.” Sir F. Madden’s Gloss. to Syr Gawayne, &c.
v. 1410. With litell besynes standith moche rest]
“Great rest standeth in little businesse.”
Good Counsaile,—Chaucer’s Workes, fol. 319. ed. 1602.