2034. _for paramour_, for love; but the _par_, or else the _for_, is redundant. _Iolite_, amusement; used ironically in the Kn. Ta. 949 (A. 1807). Sir Thopas is going to fight the giant for the love and amusement of [194] one who shone full bright; i. e. a fair lady, of course. But Sir Thopas, in dropping this mysterious hint to his merry men, refrains from saying much about it, as he had not yet seen the Fairy Queen, and had only the giant's word for her place of abode. The use of the past tense _shone_ is artful; it implies that he wished them to think that he _had_ seen his lady-love; or else that her beauty was to be taken for granted. Observe, too, that it is _Sir Thopas_, not _Chaucer_, who assigns to the giant his _three_ heads. 2035. _Do come_, cause to come; go and call hither. Cf. House of Fame, l. 1197:-- 'Of alle maner of _minstrales_, And _gestiours_, _that tellen tales_ Bothe of weping and of _game_.' Tyrwhitt's note on _gestours_ is--'The proper business of a _gestour_ was to _recite tales_, or _gestes_; which was only _one_ of the branches of the Minstrel's profession. _Minstrels_ and _gestours_ are mentioned together in the following lines from William of Nassyngton's Translation of a religious treatise by John of Waldby; MS. Reg. 17 C. viii. p. 2:-- I warne you furst at the beginninge, That I will make no vain carpinge Of dedes of armys ne of amours, As dus _mynstrelles_ and _jestours_, That makys carpinge in many a place Of _Octoviane_ and _Isembrase_, And of many other _jestes_, And namely, whan they come to festes; Ne of the life of _Bevys of Hampton_, That was a knight of gret renoun, Ne of _Sir Gye of Warwyke_, All if it might sum men lyke, &c. I cite these lines to shew the species of tales related by the ancient Gestours, and how much they differed from what we now call _jests_.' The word _geste_ here means a tale of the adventures of some hero, like those in the _Chansons de geste_. Cf. note to l. 2123 below. Sometimes the plural _gestes_ signifies passages of history. The famous collection called the Gesta Romanorum contains narratives of very various kinds. 2038. _royales_, royal; some MSS. spell the word _reales_, but the meaning is the same. In the romance of Ywain and Gawain (Ritson, vol. i.) a maiden is described as reading 'a _real_ romance.' Tyrwhitt thinks that the term originated with an Italian collection of romances relating to Charlemagne, which began with the words--'Qui se comenza la hystoria el _Real di Franza_,' &c.; edit. Mutinae, 1491, folio. It was reprinted in 1537, with a title beginning--'_I reali di Franza_,' &c. He refers to Quadrío, t. vi. p. 530. The word _roial_ (in some MSS. _real_) [195] occurs again in l. 2043. Kölbing remarks that the prose romance of Generides is called _a royal historie_, though it has nothing to do with Charlemagne.