Calabre appears to have been a kind of fur: a document in Rymer, quoted by Ducange, speaks of an indumentum foderatum cum Calabre.
[4390]. ripe chiries manye. This passage, joined with the mention of cherry-time in l. 2794, shows that cherries were a common fruit in the fourteenth century. "Mr. Gough, in his British Topography, says that cherries were first brought in by the Romans, but were afterwards lost and brought in again in the time of Henry VIII, by Richard Harris, the king's fruiterer; but this is certainly a mistake. When in the New Forest in Hampshire in the summer of 1808, I saw a great many cherry-trees, apparently, of much more considerable age than the time of Henry VIII. The very old trees were universally of the kind called merries." H. E.
[4431]. Cato, Distich. i, 21:—
Infantem nudum quum te natura crearit,
Paupertatis onus patienter ferre memento.
[4453]. so seide Saturne. See the Introduction, p. xii.
[4490]. Whitaker's text reads after this line:—
Leel and ful of love,
And no lord dreden,
Merciable to meek,