1222. _Brede_, roast meat; A.S. _br['æ]de_, glossed by '_assura_, vel _assatura_' in Ælfric's Glossary, ed. Wülcker, col. 127, l. 17. Cf. G. _Braten_. Not elsewhere in Chaucer, but found in other authors. 'To meit was greithed beef and motoun, _Bredes_, briddes, and venysoun.' Kyng Alisaunder, ed. Weber, 5248. In the allit. Morte Arthure, it occurs no less than five times. Also in Havelok, l. 98, where the interpretation 'bread' is wrong. Also in Altenglische Dichtungen, ed. Böddeker, p. 146, l. 47--'Cud as Cradoc in court that carf the _brede_,' i.e. carved the roast meat; but the glossary does not explain it. The scribe of MS. F. turns _brede_ into _bride_, regardless of the rime. I cannot agree with the wholly groundless conjecture of Willert, who reads _rude_ in l. 1221, in order to force _brude_ into the text. For minstrelsy at feasts, see C. T., A 2197. 1223. Cf. G. Douglas, tr. of Vergil, Æn. vii. 513, 4:--'And in ane bowand _horne_, at hir awyne will, A feindlych hellis voce scho _lyltis_ schyll.' 1224. Alluding to the simple pipes fashioned by rustics. The glossary to Machault's Works (1849) has: '_Muse de blez_, chalumeau fait avec des brins de paille.' The O.F. _estive_, in the quotation in the note to l. 1218, has a like sense. Godefroy has: '_estive_, espèce de flûte, de flageolet ou pipeau rustique, qui venait, ce semble, de Cornouaille.' Cf. the term _corne-pipe_, in the Complaint of Scotland, ed. Murray, p. 65, l. 22; also my note to R. Rose, 4250 (vol. i. p. 436). 1227-8. Nothing is known as to Atiteris (or Cytherus); nor as to Pseustis (or Proserus). The forms are doubtless corrupt; famous musicians or poets seem to have been intended. I shall venture, however, to record my guess, that _Atiteris_ represents _Tyrtaeus_, and that _Pseustis_ is meant for _Thespis_. Both are mentioned by Horace (Ars Poet. 276, 402); and Thespis was a native of Attica, whose plays were acted at Athens. Another guess is that _Atiteris_ means Vergil's _Tityrus_; Athenæum, Apr. 13, 1889. Willert suggests that there is here an allusion to the so-called Ecloga Theoduli, a Latin poem of the seventh or eighth century, wherein the shepherd Pseustis and the shepherdess Alithia [who represent Falsehood and Truth] contend about heathendom and Christianity; and Pseustis adduces various myths and tales, from Ovid, Vergil, and Statius. He refers us to H. Dunger, Die Sage v. troj. Kriege in den Bearbeitungen des Mittelalters: Dresden, 1869, p. 76; cf. Leyser, Hist. Poet. Medii Aevi, p. 295. This only accounts for Pseustis; Atiteris can hardly be Alithia. 1229. This is a curious example of how names are corrupted. _Marcia_ is Dante's _Marsia_, mentioned in the very passage which Chaucer partly imitates in ll. 1091-1109 above. Dante addresses Apollo in the words-- 'Entra nel petto mio, e spira tue Si come quando Marsia traesti Della vagina delle membra sue.'