[ [10] No. 2253, fol. 108.
[ [11] In the original it is purry poume, that is rotten apple.
[ [12] The cross-bow.
[ [13] That is, to practise with lances, two persons running one against the other.
[ [14] Armour.
[ [15] See p. [126] of this work.
[ [16] Hunting.
[ [17] In the first chapter, p. 17, the reader will find the animals to be hunted divided into three classes; namely, beasts of venery, beasts of chase, and raskals, or vermin. The horn was sounded in a different manner according to the class of the beasts pursued.
[ [18] Morte Arthur, translated from the French by sir Thomas Mallory, knight, and first printed by Caxton, A.D. 1481. "The English," says a writer of our own country, "are so naturally inclined to pleasure, that there is no countrie wherein gentlemen and lords have so many and so large parkes, only reserved for the purpose of hunting." And again, "Our progenitors were so delighted with hunting, that the parkes are nowe growne infinite in number, and are thought to containe more fallow deere than all the Christian world besides." Itinerary of Fynes Moryson, published in 1617, part iii. book iii. cap. 3.
[ [19] To learn.