146. _Of_, i. e. some. _houndes_ (huundez), dogs. 'Smale whelpes leeve to ladyse and clerkys'; Political, Relig. and Love Poems, ed. Furnivall, p. 32; Bernardus de Cura Rei Familiaris, ed. Lumby, p. 13. 147. _wastel-breed_. Horses and dogs were not usually fed on _wastel-breed_ or cake-bread (bread made of the best flour), but on coarse lentil bread baked for that purpose. See Our English Home, pp. 79, 80. [17] The O. F. _wastel_ subsequently became _gastel_, _gasteau_, mod. F. _gâteau_, cake. Cf. P. Plowman, B. vi. 217, and the note; Riley, Memorials of London, p. 108. 148. The syllable _she_ is here very light; _she if oon_ constitutes the third foot in the line. After _she_ comes the caesural pause. _weep_, wept; A. S. _w[=e]op_. 149. _men smoot_, one smote. If _men_ were the ordinary plural of _man_, _smoot_ ought to be _smiten_ (pl. past); but _men_ is here used like the Ger. _man_, French _on_, with the singular verb. It is, in fact, merely the _unaccented_ form of _man_. _yerde_, stick, rod; mod. E. _yard_. _smerte_, sharply; adv. 151. _wimpel._ The _wimple_ or _gorger_ is stated first to have appeared in Edward the First's reign. It was a covering for the neck, and was used by nuns and elderly ladies. See Fairholt's Costume, 1885, ii. 413; Ancren Riwle, ed. Morton, p. 420. _pinched_, gathered in small pleats, closely pleated. 'But though I olde and hore be, sone myne, And poore by my clothing and aray, And not so wyde a gown have as is thyne, So small _ypynched_ and so gay, My rede in happe yit the profit may.' Hoccleve, De Regimine Principum, ed. Wright, p. 15. 152. _tretys_, long and well-shaped. From O. F. _traitis_, Low Lat. _tractitius_, i. e. drawn out; from L. _trahere_. Chaucer found the O. F. _traitis_ in the Romaunt of the Rose, and translated it by _tretys_; see l. 1216 of the E. version. Cf. _fetis_ from _factitius_; l. 157. _eyen greye._ This seems to have been the favourite colour of ladies' eyes in Chaucer's time, and even later. Cf. A. 3974; Rom. Rose, 546, 862; &c. 'Her eyen _gray_ and stepe'; Skelton's Philip Sparowe, 1014 (see Dyce's note). 'Her eyes are _grey as glass_.'--Two Gent. of Verona, iv. 4. 197. 'Hyr forheed lely-whyht, Hyr bent browys blake, and hyr _grey eyne_, Hyr chyry chekes, _hyr nose streyt_ and ryht, Hyr lyppys rody.'--Lives of Saints, Roxburgh Club, p. 14. 'Wyth _eyene graye_, and browes bent, And yealwe traces [_tresses_], and fayre y-trent, Ech her semede of gold; Hure vysage was fair and _tretys_, Hure body iantil and pure _fetys_, And semblych of stature.'--Sir Ferumbras, l. 5881. 'Dame Gaynour, with hur _gray een_.' Three Met. Romances, ed. Robson, p. 22. 'Hys _eyen grey_ as crystalle stone';--Sir Eglamour, l. 861. 'Put out my _eyen gray_';--Sir Launfal, l. 810. [18] 156. _hardily_ is here used for _sikerly_, certainly; so also in E. 25.