2624. 'He caused men to call his daughter'; he had his daughter called to him. 2629. 'Ever since the day when my shirt was first shaped for me.' The sense is--'ever since the day of my birth.' The _shirt_ here refers, as Tyrwhitt remarks, to the linen in which a new-born babe is wrapped. See Kn. Ta., 708 (A 1566); and cf. Troil. iii. 733:-- 'O fatal sustren, which, er any cloth Me shapen was, my destenee me sponne.' 2630. Supply _I_ before _had_. Cf. note to l. 2580. 2634. _After thy wyser_, according to the advice of thy superior in wisdom.' Cf. 'Thenne doth we as the wise'; O. English Miscellany, ed. Morris, p. 79, l. 228. 'And gif yow list nocht wirk eftir the wise'; G. Douglas, tr. of Vergil, Prol. to bk. vi. l. 15. 2637. Read _Ne I_ as _N'I_. 'Nor would I advise thee to thy harm.' 2640. 'And, at the same time, I make protestation in this manner, viz. that, unless thou do as I shall direct thee.' 2653. 'I will not have any reservation.' 2655. _Y-sene_, visible; an adj., not a pp. See l. 1394; and Prol. to Cant. Tales, 592. 2660. _Siker_, secure. The use of the word is precisely like that in the well-known anecdote of Kirkpatrick of Closeburn. Meeting Bruce at the door of the Greyfriars' Church in Dumfries, he asked what tidings. 'Bad tidings,' answered Bruce, 'I doubt I have slain Comyn.' 'Doubtest thou?' said Kirkpatrick; 'I make _sicker_.' With these words, he and Lindsay rushed into the church and despatched the wounded Comyn. See Note K to Scott's Lord of the Isles, c. 1. st. 27, c. 2. st. 13. 2661. _Biker_, quarrel, altercation; also a skirmish, encounter. 2662. 'By him that I have (already) sworn by.' See l. 2642. 2666. _Costrel_, a flask, a kind of bottle. '_Costred_, or _costrelle_, grete botelle, _Onopherum_, _aristophorum_'; Prompt. Parv.; see Way's note. 'A _Costrelle_, oneferum, &c., vbi a flakett'; Cath. Angl. p. 77; see Herrtage's note. See _costa_, _costarez_, _costarium_, _costrelli_, in Ducange; and _coste_, _costeret_, _costerel_, in Godefroy. In the Craven dialect, a _costril_ is the little wooden barrel carried by reapers. 2671. 'Lest that the time may seem long to him.' Ovid alludes to the narcotic drink; Her. xiv. 42:--'quaeque tibi dederam uina, soporis erant.' Cf. Kn. Tale, 614 (A 1472). 2676. The line is too short in most MSS. Unless _sone_ be supplied from MS. T., we shall have to scan the line by putting _This_ (with a strong accent) alone in the first foot. Cf. l. 2711, and slur over the _o_ in _Lino_ before _and_. 2680. Cf. Her. xiv. 44:--'Erigor, et capio tela tremente manu.' 2681. Accent _Zephírus_ on the _i_. From Her. xiv. 39:-- 'Utque leui Zephyro graciles uibrantur aristae, frigida populeas ut quatit aura comas.' 2682. From Her. xiv. 34:--'Securumque quies alta per Argos erat.' 2683. 'Sanguis abit; mentemque calor corpusque reliquit'; Her. xiv. 37. And, in the next line--'frigida facta.' 2686. 'Ter male sublato decidit ense manus'; 46. 2690. From Her. xiv. 55, &c.:--