1476. _Socour_; cf. 'succurrere disco'; Verg. Æn. i. 630. 1479. This is a curious error; _him_ should be _her_. As the Lemnian women had just killed every man in the island, the messenger must needs have been a woman. In fact, her name was Iphinoë; Val. Flacc. Argon. ii. 327. The account in Apollonius Rhodius is somewhat fuller; but I find no mention of the _cogge_. 1481. _Cogge_, a cock-boat; from the O. Fr. _coque_, also spelt _cogue_, a kind of vessel, sometimes a ship of war, but also a merchant-vessel, and here a small boat. See _coque_ or _cogue_ in Godefroy's O. Fr. Dict. _Cogge_ occurs in the Morte Arthure, 476, 738; Allit. Poems, ed. Morris, iii. 152; &c. 'Cogboote, cokbote, _scafa_'; Prompt. Parv. 1487. _Broken_, ship-wrecked. 'The ships were _broken_' 1 Kings xxii. 48; cf. Jonah i. 4. _Oght wo begoon_, in any way distressed. Note resemblances to the tale of Dido. 1488. _Lodesmen_, pilots; see note to Ch. Prol. 403. 'Lodesman of a shippe, _pilotte_'; Palsgrave. 1509. Cf. Valerius Flaccus, Arg. ii. 351:-- 'Praecipueque ducis casus mirata requirit Hypsipyle; quae fata trahant, quae regis agat uis.' 1514. _Los_; spelt _loos_ in MS. Tn.; for the _o_ is long. It means 'praise' or 'renown,' and occurs six times in Ho. Fame (1620, 1621, 1626, 1722, 1817, 1900). _Los_, with short _o_, means 'loss.' 1515. Read _th'áventúres_, in four syllables. 1528. Prof. Corson cites some parallel passages, viz:-- 'And therto he was _hardy_, _wys_, and _riche_'; Squi. Ta., F 19. '_Hardy_, and _wyse_, and _riche_, and therto _free_'; Ship. Ta., B 1366. 'We alle desyren, if hit mighte be, To have housbondes _hardy_, _wyse_, and _free_, And _secree_'; Non. Pr. Ta., B 4103. 1529. _Three pointes._ The reference is not to l. 1528, which mentions _four_ points, but to ll. 1530-3 following. I.e. the three points are _fredom_, _lustihede_, and being _a greet gentil-man_; or otherwise, liberality, youthful vigour, and high birth. Cf. l. 1405. 1533. Accent _Tessálie_ on the second syllable. 1535. _Shamefast_ (from A.S. _sceamu_) is here trisyllabic. On the corrupt modern spelling _shamefaced_ see Trench, Eng. Past and Present. 1536. _He hadde lever_, he would have it dearer, he would rather. 1538-40. In order to scan l. 1538, the word _almighty_ is necessary, though found in MS. A. only. Or else we must insert _him_, and read--'As wolde God that I hadde him i-yive.' The sense is--'As (I pray) that God would permit that I might have given [him] my blood and flesh, provided that I might still live (to see the result), on the condition that he had anywhere a wife (suitable) to his rank.' _So that_ means 'provided that'; as in '_so that_ ye be not wroth,' C. T., D 2248 (Sompnoures Tale), in the Harleian MS.; and in the following:-- 'Sche saide, sire, ich wille help the, _So that_ thou wille spousi me.'--Seven Sages, ed. Weber, 2663.