Line 21 of the Milleres Tale (A. 3207) runs similarly:-- 'Of _licorys_ or any _setewale_.' Maundeville speaks of the _clowe-gilofre_ and _notemuge_ in his 26th chapter; see Specimens of E. Eng. ed. Morris and Skeat, p. 171. _Cetewale_ is generally explained as the herb valerian, but is certainly zedoary; see the Glossary. _Clowe-gilofre_, a clove; _notemuge_, a [189] nutmeg. 'Spiced ale' is amongst the presents sent by Absolon to Alisoun in the Milleres Tale (A. 3378). Cf. the list of spices in King Alisaunder, ed. Weber, 6790-9. 1955. _leye in cofre_, to lay in a box. 1956. Compare Amis and Amiloun, ed. Weber, ii, 391:-- 'She herd the foules grete and smale, The swete note of the nightingale, Ful mirily sing on tre.' See also Romaunt of the Rose, ll. 613-728. But Chaucer's burlesque is far surpassed by a curious passage in the singular poem of The Land of Cockaygne (MS. Harl. 913), ll. 71-100:-- 'In þe praer [_meadow_] is a tre Swiþe likful for to se. Þe rote is gingeuir and galingale, Þe siouns beþ al _sed_[_e_]_wale_; Trie maces beþ þe flure; Þe rind, canel of swet odur; Þe frute, _gilofre_ of gode smakke, &c. Þer beþ briddes mani and fale, Þ_rostil_, þruisse, and ni[gh]tingale, Chalandre and wod[e]wale, And oþer briddes wiþout tale [_number_], Þat stinteþ neuer by har mi[gh]t Miri to sing[e] dai and ni[gh]t,' &c. 1964. _as he were wood_, as if he were mad, 'like mad.' So in Amis and Amiloun (ed. Weber), ii. 419:-- 'He priked his stede _night and day_ As a gentil knight, stout and gay.' Cf. note to l. 1949. 1974. _seinte_, being feminine, and in the vocative case, is certainly a dissyllable here--'O seintè Márie, _ben'cite_.' Cf. note to B. 1170 above. 1977. _Me dremed_, I dreamt. Both _dremen_ (to dream) and _meten_ (also to dream) are sometimes used with a dative case and reflexively in Old English. In the Nonne Prestes Tale we have _me mette_ (l. 74) and _this man mette_ (l. 182); B. 4084, 4192. 1978. _An elf-queen._ Mr. Price says--'There can be little doubt that at one period the popular creed made the same distinctions between the Queen of Faerie and the Elf-queen that were observed in Grecian mythology between their undoubted parallels, Artemis and Persephone.' Chaucer makes Proserpine the 'queen of faerie' in his Marchauntes Tale; but at the beginning of the Wyf of Bathes Tale, he describes the _elf-queen_ as the queen of the _fairies_, and makes _elf_ and _fairy_ synonymous. Perhaps this _elf-queen_ in Sire Thopas (called the _queen of fairye_ in l. 2004) may have given Spenser the hint for _his_ Faerie [190] Queene. But the subject is a vast one. See Price's Preface, in Warton's Hist. Eng. Poetry, ed. Hazlitt, pp. 30-36; Halliwell's Illustrations of Fairy Mythology; Keightley's Fairy Mythology; Warton's Observations on the Faerie Queene, sect. ii; Sir W. Scott's ballad of Thomas the Rhymer, &c.