Knight’s Tale.

[15]. He died about 1594.

[16]. An anachronism.

[17]. This expression seems to be ridiculed by Falstaff.

[18]. .sp 1

‘He sent a shaggy, tattered, staring slave,

That when he speaks, draws out his grisly beard,

And winds it twice or thrice about his ear;

Whose face has been a grind-stone for men’s swords:

His hands are hack’d, some fingers cut quite off,