_Palatye_ (Palathia, see l. 65), in Anatolia, was one of the lordships held by Christian knights after the Turkish conquest.--T. Cf. Froissart, bk. iii. c. 23. 59. _the Grete See._ The Great Sea denotes the Mediterranean, as distinguished from the two so-called inland seas, the Sea of Tiberias and the Dead Sea. So in Numb. xxxiv. 6, 7; Josh. i. 4; also in Mandevile's Travels, c. 7. 60. _aryve_, arrival or disembarkation of troops, as in the Harleian and Cambridge MSS. Many MSS. have _armee_, army, which gives no good sense, and probably arose from misreading the spelling _ariue_ as _arme_. Perhaps the following use of _rive_ for 'shore' may serve to illustrate this passage:-- 'The wind was good, they saileth blive, Till he _took lond_ upon the _rive_ Of Tire,' &c. Gower, Conf. Amant. ed. Pauli, iii. 292. _be_ = _ben_, been. Cf. _ydo_ = _ydon_, done, &c. 62. _foghten_ (f[o,]uhten), pp. fought; from the strong verb _fighten_. 63. 'He had fought thrice in the lists in defence of our faith'; i. e. when challenged by an infidel to do so. Such combats were not uncommon. _slayn_, slain, _hadde_ must be supplied from l. 61. 64. _ilke_, same; A. S. _ylca_. 65. _Somtyme_, once on a time; not our 'sometimes.' See l. 85. 66. _another hethen_, a heathen army different from that which he had encountered at Tremezen. 67. _sovereyn prys_ (suv·rein priis), exceeding great renown. 69. 'As courteys as any mayde'; Arthur, ed. Furnivall (E. E. T. S.), l. 41. Cf. B. 1636. 70. _vileinye_, any utterance unbecoming a gentleman. Cf. Trench, English Past and Present, ch. 7, on the word _villain_. 71. _no maner wight_, no kind of person whatever. In M. E. the word _maner_ is used without _of_, in phrases of this character. 72. _verray_, very, true. _parfit_, perfect; F. _parfait_. _gentil_, gentle; see D. 1109-1176. 74. 'His horses were good, but he himself was not gaudily dressed.' _Hors_ is plural as well as singular. In fact, the knight had _three_ horses; one for himself, one for his son, and one for the yeoman. Perhaps we should read--'but hé ne was not gay,' supplying _ne_ from Hl. and Hn. This makes _he_ emphatic; and we may then treat the _e_ in _god-e_ as a light extra syllable, at the caesural pause; for doing which there is ample authority. [9] 75. _fustian_; see Babees Book, ed. Furnivall, p. 224. _gipoun_ (jipuu·n), a diminutive of _gipe_, a tight-fitting vest, a doublet; also called a _gipell_, as in Libeaus Disconus, 224. See Fairholt, s. v. _fustian_, and s. v. _gipon_. The O. F. _gipe_ (whence F. _jupe_) meant a kind of frock or jacket. _wered_ is the A. S. _werede_, pt. t. of the weak verb _werian_, to wear. It is now strong; pt. t. _wore_. See l. 564.