This is probably the only instance, even in poetry, of knights being armed with bows and arrows.
515. For the knights of Arthur's round table, see Malory's Morte Arthure.
516. Douseperes; les douze pers, the twelve peers of Charlemagne, including Roland, Oliver, Ogier the Dane, Otuel, Ferumbras, the traitor Ganelon, and others. The names vary.
520. in hir tyme, formerly, in their day; shewing that the institution of the Knights of the Garter on April 23, 1349, by Edward III, was anything but a recent event.
530. I. e. 'Witness him of Rome, who was the founder of knighthood.' Alluding to Julius Cæsar, to whom was decreed by the senate the right of wearing a laurel-crown; Dryden mentions him by name.
550. Cf. 'De mieulx en mieulx'; Temple of Glas, 310.
551-6. Apparently imitated from The Temple of Glas, 503-16.
567. Cf. 'We thanked her in our most humble wyse'; A. L. 729.
580. Male-Bouche, Slander; borrowed from the Rom. de la Rose. See note above, to VIII. 260.
589. Cf. 'to put it in wryting'; A. L. 664; 'she put it in wryting'; A. L. 629.