941. _for despyt_, out of vexation; mod. E. 'for spite.' 942. _To do the dede bodyes vileinye_, to treat the dead bodies shamefully. 948. _withouten more respyt_, without longer delay. 949. _They fillen gruf_, they fell flat with the face to the ground. In M. E. we find the phrase _to fall grovelinges_ or _to fall groveling_. See _Gruflynge_ and _Ogrufe_ in the Catholicon Anglicum, and the editor's notes, pp. 166, 259. 954. _Himthoughte_, it seemed to him; cf. _methinks_, it seems to me. In M. E. the verbs _like_, _list_, _seem_, _rue_ (pity), are used impersonally, and take the dative case of the pronoun. Cf. the modern expression 'if you please' = if it be pleasing to you. 955. _mat_, dejected. 'Ententyfly, not feynt, wery ne _mate_.'--Hardyng, p. 129.--M. 960. _ferforthly_, i. e. _far-forth-like_, to such an extent. 965. _abood_, delay, awaiting, abiding. 966. _His baner he desplayeth_, i. e. he summons his troops to assemble for military service. 968. _No neer_, no nearer. Accent _Athén-es_ on the second syllable; but in l. 973 it is accented on the _first_. 970. _lay_, lodged for the night. 975. _státue_, the image, as depicted on the banner. 977. _feeldes_, field, is an heraldic term for the ground upon which the various charges, as they are called, are emblazoned. Some of this [64] description was suggested by the Thebais, lib. xii. 665, &c.; but the resemblance is very slight. 978. _penoun_, pennon. _y-bete_, beaten; the gold being hammered out into a thin foil in the shape of the Minotaur; see Marco Polo, ed. Yule, i. 344. But, in the Thebais, the Minotaur is upon Theseus' _shield_. 988. _In pleyn bataille_, in open or fair fight. 993. _obséquies_ (Elles., &c.); _exéquies_ (Harl.); accented on the _second_ syllable. 1004. _as him leste_, as it pleased him. 1005. _tas_, heap, collection. Some MSS. read _cas_ (_caas_), which might = downfall, ruin, Lat. _casus_; but, as _c_ and _t_ are constantly confused, this reading is really due to a mere blunder. Gower speaks of gathering 'a _tasse_' of sticks; Conf. Amant. bk. v. ed. Pauli, ii. 293. Palsgrave has--'On a heape, _en vng tas_'; p. 840. Hexham's Dutch Dict. (1658) has--'_een Tas_, a Shock, a Pile, or a Heape.' Chaucer found the word in Le Roman de la Rose, 14870: 'ung _tas_ de paille,' a heap of straw. 1006. _harneys._ 'And _arma_ be not taken onely for the instruments of al maner of crafts, but also for _harneys_ and weapon; also standards and banners, and sometimes battels.'--Bossewell's Armorie, p. 1, ed. 1597. Cf. l. 1613. 1010. _Thurgh-girt_, pierced through. This line is taken from Troilus, iv. 627: 'Thourgh-girt with many a wyd and blody wounde.' 1011. _liggyng by and by_, lying near together, as in A. 4143; the usual old sense being 'in succession,' or 'in order'; see examples in the New Eng. Dict., p. 1233, col. 3. In later English, _by and by_ signifies presently, immediately, as 'the end is not _by and by_.'