2863-962. The whole of this description should be compared with the funeral rites at the burial of Archemorus, as described in Statius, Thebaid, bk. vi; which Chaucer probably consulted, as well as the imitation of the same in Boccaccio's Teseide. For example, the 'tree-list' in ll. 2921-3 is not a little remarkable. The first list is in Ovid, Met. x. 90-105; with which cf. Vergil, Æn. vi. 180; Lucan, Pharsalia, iii. 440-445. Then we find it in Statius, vi. 98-106. After which, it reappears in Boccaccio, Teseide, xi. 22; in Chaucer, Parl. of Foules, 176; in the present passage; in Tasso, Gier. Lib. iii. 75; and in Spenser, F.Q. i. 1. 8. There is also a list in Le Roman de la Rose, 1338-1368. Again, we may just compare ll. 2951-2955 with the following lines in Lewis's translation of Statius:-- 'Around the pile an hundred horsemen ride, With arms reversed, and compass every side; They faced the left (for so the rites require); Bent with the dust, the flames no more aspire. Thrice, thus disposed, they wheel in circles round The hallow'd corse: their clashing weapons sound. Four times their arms a crash tremendous yield, And female shrieks re-echo through the field.' Moreover, Statius imitates the whole from Vergil, Æn. xi. 185-196. And Lydgate copies it all from Chaucer in his Sege of Thebes, part 3 (near the end). 2864. _Funeral he myghte al accomplice_ (Elles.); _Funeral he mighte hem all complise_ (Corp., Pet.). The line is defective in the first foot. [93] _Funeral_ is an adjective. Tyrwhitt and Wright insert _Of_ before it, without authority of any kind; see l. 2942. 2874. _White_ gloves were used as mourning at the funeral of an unmarried person; see Brand, Pop. Antiq. ed. Ellis, ii. 283. 2885. 'And surpassing others in weeping came Emily.' 2891. See the description of old English funerals in Rock, Church of our Fathers, ii. 488: 'If the deceased was a knight, his helmet, shield, sword, and coat-armour were each carried by some near kinsman, or by a herald clad in his blazoned tabard'; &c. 2895. Cf. 'deux ars Turquois,' i. e. two Turkish bows; Rom. de la Rose, 913; see vol. i. p. 132. 2903. Compare the mention of 'blake clothes' in l. 2884. When 'master Machyll, altherman, was bered, all the chyrche [was] hangyd with blake and armes [coats-of-arms], and the strett [street] with blake and armes, and the place'; &c.--Machyn's Diary (Camden Soc.) p. 171. 2923. _whippeltree_ (better _wippeltree_) is the cornel-tree or dogwood (_Cornus sanguinea_); the same as the Mid. Low G. _wipel-bom_, the cornel. Cf. '_wepe_, or _weype_, the dog-tree'; Hexham. See N. and Q. 7 S. vi. 434. 2928. _Amadrides_; i. e. _Hamadryades_; see Ovid, Met. i. 192, 193, 690. The idea is taken from Statius, Theb. vi. 110-113. 2943. _men made the fyr_ (Hn., Cm.); _maad was the fire_ (Corp., Pet.). 2953. _loud_ (Elles.); _heih_ (Harl.); _bowe_ (Corp.).