Whan tidynges to him were comen,
Tho was he a fulle sory man,
Whan he herde howe his vitaile were nomen,
And howe his men were slayne,
And Gye was go safe hem froo ;
He defyed Mahounde, and Apolyne,
Jubiter, Astarol, and ALCARON also.”
Wynken de Worde printed “A lytell treatyse of the Turkes law called Alcaron, &c.” See Herbert, 224.
If, however, Acaron be the true reading, we shall find an idol of that name in the Bible, 2 Regum i. 16, ed. Vulgate.
It was, at the same time, a proper name in the East: as “Accaron princeps insulæ Cypri” is mentioned by Roger de Hoveden, 786.