84. _deliver_, active. Cotgrave gives: '_delivre de sa personne_, an active, nimble wight.' 85. _chivachye._ Fr. _chevauchée_. 'It most properly means an expedition with a small party of _cavalry_; but is often used generally for any military expedition.'--T. We should call it a 'raid.' Cf. H. 50. 87. _born him wel_, conducted himself well (behaved bravely), considering the short time he had served. 88. _lady grace_, lady's grace. Here _lady_ represents A. S. _hlæfdigan_, gen. case of _hlæfdige_, lady; there is therefore no final _s_. See l. 695, and G. 1348. Cf. the modern phrase 'Lady-day,' as compared with 'Lord's day.' 89. 'That was with floures swote enbrouded al'; Prol. to Legend of Good Women, l. 119; and cf. Rom. Rose, 896-8. _Embrouded_ (embruu·ded _or_ embr[o,]u·ded), embroidered; from O. F. _brouder_, variant of _broder_, to embroider; confused with A. S. _brogden_, pp. of _bregdan_, to braid. _mede_, mead, meadow. 91. _floytinge_, playing the flute. Cf. _floute_ (ed. 1532, _floyte_), a flute; Ho. of Fame, 1223. Hexham gives Du. '_Fluyte_, a Flute.' 96. 'Joust (in a tournament) and dance, and draw well and write.' 97. _hote_, adv. hotly; from _hoot_, adj. hot. _nightertale_, night-time, time (or reckoning) of night. So also _wit nighter-tale_, lit. with night-time, Cursor Mundi, l. 2783; _on nightertale_, id. 2991; _be_ [by] _nychtyrtale_, Barbour's Bruce, xix. 495. The word is used by Holinshed in his account of Joan of Arc (under the date 1429), but altered in the later edition to 'the dead of the night'; it also occurs in Palladius on Husbandry, ed. Lodge, bk. i. l. 910; and in The Court of Love, l. 1355. Cf. Icel. _náttar-tal_, a tale, or number, of nights; and the phrase _á náttar-þeli_, at dead of night. 98. _sleep_, also written _slep_, _slepte_. Cf. _weep_, _wepte_; _leep_, _lepte_, &c.; such verbs, once strong, became weak. See l. 148; and Kn. Ta. 1829 (A. 2687). 100. _carf_, the past tense of _kerven_, to carve (pp. _corven_). The allusion is to what was then a common custom; cf. E. 1773; Barbour's Bruce, i. 356. _biforn_, before; A. S. _biforan_. [11] THE YEMAN.