101. _Yeman_, yeoman. 'As a title of service, it denoted a servant of the next degree above a _garson_ or groom.... The title of _yeoman_ was given in a secondary sense to people of middling rank not in service. The appropriation of the word to signify a small landholder is more modern.'--Tyrwhitt. In ed. 1532, this paragraph is headed--'The Squyers yoman,' so that _he_ (in this line) means the Squire, as we should naturally suppose from the context. Tyrwhitt, indeed, objects that 'Chaucer would never have given the son an attendant, when the father had none'; but he overlooks the fact that both the squire and the squire's man were necessarily servants to the knight, who, in this way, really had _two_ servants; just as, in the note to l. 74, I have shewn that he had _three_ horses. Warton, Strutt, and Todd all take this view of the matter, as might be expected. For further information as to the status of a _yeoman_, see Blackstone; Spelman's Glossary, s. v. _Socman_; Strutt, Manners and Customs, iii. 16; the Glossary to the Babees Book, ed. Furnivall; Waterhous, Comment. on Fortescue's De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, ed. 1663, p. 391; &c. _na-mo_, no more (in number). In M. E., _mo_ relates to number, but _more_ to size; usually, but not always; see l. 808. 102. _him liste_, it pleased him. _liste_ is the past tense; _list_, it pleaseth, is the present. See note on l. 37. 103. Archers were usually clad in 'Lincoln green'; cf. D. 1382. 104. _a sheef of pecok-arwes_, a sheaf of arrows with peacocks' feathers. Ascham, in his Toxophilus, ed. Arber, p. 129, does not say much in favour of 'pecock fethers'; for 'there is no fether but onely of a goose that hath all commodities in it. And trewelye at a short but, which some man doth vse, the _pecock fether_ doth seldome kepe vp the shaft eyther ryght or level, it is so roughe and heuy, so that many men which haue taken them vp for gaynesse, hathe layde them downe agayne for profyte; thus for our purpose, the goose is best fether for the best shoter.' In the Geste of Robyn Hode, pr. by W. Copland, we read-- 'And every arrowe an ell longe With _peacocke_ well ydight, And nocked they were with white silk, It was a semely syght.' 'In the Liber Compotis Garderobæ, sub an. 4 Edw. II., p. 53, is this entry--Pro duodecim flechiis cum pennis de pauone emptis pro rege de 12 den., that is, For twelve arrows plumed with peacock's feathers, bought for the king, 12 d.... MS. Cotton, Nero c. viii.'--Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, bk. ii. ch. i. § 12. In the Testamenta Eboracensia, i. 419, 420 (anno 1429), I find--'Item lego ... j. shaffe of pakok-fedird arrows: also I wyte them a dagger harnest with sylver.' The latter phrase illustrates l. 114 below. See further in Warton's note on this passage; Hist. E. Poet. 1840, ii. 211. [12]