'This worshipful man, this dene, came rydynge into a good paryssh with a x. or xii. horses _lyke a prelate_'; Caxton, Fables of Æsop, &c.; last fable; cf. l. 204 below. 196. 'He had an elaborate brooch, made of gold, with a love-knot in the larger end.' _love-knotte_, a complicated twist, with loops. 198. _balled_, bald. See Specimens of Early English, ii. 15. 408. 199. _anoint_, anointed; O. F. _enoint_, Lat. _inunctus_. 200. _in good point_, in good case, imitated from the O. F. _en bon point_. Cotgrave has: '_En bon poinct_, ou, _bien en poinct_, handsome: faire, fat, well liking, in good taking.' [24] 201. _stepe_, E. E. _steap_, does not here mean _sunken_, but _bright_, burning, fiery. Mr. Cockayne has illustrated the use of this word in his Seinte Marherete, pp. 9, 108: 'His twa ehnen [semden] _steappre_ þene steorren,' his two eyes seemed _brighter_ than stars. So also: 'schininde and schenre, of [gh]imstanes _steapre_ then is eni steorre,' shining and clearer, brighter with gems than is any star; St. Katherine, l. 1647. The expression 'eyen gray and _stepe_,' i. e. bright, has already been quoted in the note to l. 152. So also 'Eyyen _stepe_ and graye'; King of Tars, l. 15 (in Ritson, Met. Rom. ii. 157); and again, 'thair een _steep_'; Palladius on Husbandry, bk. iv. l. 800. Cf. _stemed_ in the next line; and see l. 753. 202. _stemed as a forneys of a leed_, shone like the fire under a cauldron. Here _stemed_ is related to the M. E. _st[=e]m_, a bright light, used in Havelok, 591. Cf. 'two _stemyng_ eyes,' two bright eyes; Sir T. Wiat, Sat. i. 53. _That_ refers to _eyen_, not to _heed_. A kitchen-copper is still sometimes called a _lead_. As to the word _leed_, which is the same as the modern E. _lead_ (the metal), Mr. Stevenson, in his edition of the Nottingham Records, iii. 493, observes--'That these vessels were really made of _lead_ we have ample evidence'; and refers us to the Laws of Æthelstán, iv. 7 (Schmid, Anhang, xvi. § 1); &c. He adds--'The _lead_ was frequently fixed, like a modern domestic copper, over a grate. The grate and flue were known as a _furnace_. Hence the frequent expression--_a lead in furnace_.' See also _led_ in Havelok, l. 924; and _lead_ in Tusser's Husbandrie, E. D. S. 203. _botes souple_, boots pliable, soft, and close-fitting. 'This is part of the description of a smart abbot, by an anonymous writer of the thirteenth century: "Ocreas habebat in cruribus quasi innatae essent, sine plica porrectas."--MS. Bodley, James, no. 6. p. 121.'--T. See Rom. of the Rose, 2265-70 (vol. i. p. 173). 205. _for-pyned_, 'tormented,' and hence 'wasted away'; from _pine_. The _for-_ is intensive, as in Eng. _forswear_. THE FRERE.