[292] [Old copy, de Brun.] "John married Isabel, the daughter and heiress of the Earl of Angoulesme, who was before affianced to Hugh le Brun, Earl of March (a peer of great estate and excellence in France), by the consent of King Richard, in whose custody she then was." —Daniel's "History of England."
[293] [Old copy, lose.]
[294] Led by the F.K. and L. means, as afterwards appears, the French king, and Lord Hugh le Brun, Earl of North March.
[295] The entrance of Bonville is omitted in the 4to.
[296] These Lords, as we afterwards find, are old Aubrey de Vere, Hubert, and Mowbray.
[297] [Old copy, troops.]
[298] [Old copy, triumphs.]
[299] Lodge was in the habit of using the adjective for the substantive, especially fair for fairness; one example is enough—
"Some, well I wot, and of that sum full many,
Wisht or my faire or their desire were lesse."
—Scilla's Metamorphosis, 1589.
See also note to "The Wounds of Civil War" (vol. vii. p. 118).