[ [650] Leland's Collectanea, pp. 61. 99.

[ [651] See p. [189].

[ [652] Garrick's Collection of Old Plays.

[ [653] "Un tabourin d'argent semé de plaques aussi d'argent." Origine de la Langue et Poësie Françoise, lib. i. cap. viii. fol. 72

[ [654] Supplement to Du Cange.

[ [655] Chaucer, House of Fame, book iii.

[ [656] No. 1315.

[ [657] Frankeleyn's Tale.

[ [658] House of Fame, book iii.

[ [659] The original runs thus: "And they runnen togidre a great randoum; and they frunchen togidre full fiercely, and they breken thare speres so rudely, that the tronchouns flen in sprotes and peces alle about the halle." Mandevile's Travels, p. 285. I have modernized the English in many places, for sometimes it is hardly intelligible.