Shalott is Guilford.
Hamo’s Port is Southampton.
Carlisle is the city still retaining that name, near the Scottish border. But this name is also sometimes applied to other places, which were, like itself, military stations.
[45] Samite, a sort of silk stuff.
[46] N’as is not was, contracted; in modern phrase, there was not Mochel sorwe is much sorrow; morwe is morrow.
[47] New-fangled—fond of novelty.
[48] Lunys, the string with which the falcon is held.
[49] A musical instrument.
[50] “Good faith was the very corner-stone of chivalry. Whenever a knight’s word was pledged (it mattered not how rashly) it was to be redeemed at any price. Hence the sacred obligation of the boon granted by a knight to his suppliant. Instances without number occur in romance, in which a knight, by rashly granting an indefinite boon, was obliged to do or suffer something extremely to his prejudice. But it is not in romance alone that we find such singular instances of adherence to an indefinite promise. The history of the times presents authentic transactions equally embarrassing and absurd.”—Scott, note to Sir Tristram.
[51] Feres, companions; thewes, labors; leers, learning.