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,