1012. _in oon armes_, in one (kind of) arms or armour, shewing that they belonged to the same house. Chaucer adapts ancient history to medieval time throughout his works. 1015. _Nat fully quike_, not wholly alive. 1016. _by hir cote-armures_, by their coat-armour, by the devices on the vest worn above the armour covering the breast. The _cote-armure_, as explained in my note to Barbour's Bruce, xiii. 183, was 'of no use as a defence, being made of a flimsy material; but was worn over the true armour of defence, and charged with armorial bearings'; see Ho. Fame, 1326. Cf. l. 1012. _by hir gere_, by their _gear_, i. e. equipments. 1018. _they._ Tyrwhitt (who relied too much on the black-letter editions) reads _tho_, those; but the seven best MSS. have _they_. 1023. _Tathenes_, to Athens (Harl. MS., which reads _for to_ for _to_). Cf. _tallegge_, l. 3000 (foot-note). 1024. _he nolde no raunsoun_, he would accept of no ransom. 1029. _Terme of his lyf_, the remainder of his life. Cf. 'The end and _term_ of natural philosophy.'--Bacon's Advancement of Learning, Bk. ii. p. 129, ed. Aldis Wright. 1035. Cf. Leg. of Good Women, 2425, 2426. 1038. _stroof hir hewe_, strove her hue; i. e. her complexion contested the superiority with the rose's colour. [65] 1039. _I noot_, I know not; _noot_ = _ne woot_. 1047. _May._ 'Against Maie, every parishe, towne, and village, assembled themselves together, bothe men, women, and children, olde and yonge, even all indifferently, and either going all together or devidyng themselves into companies, they goe, some to the woodes and groves, some to the hills and mountaines, some to one place, some to another, where they spend all the night in pastimes; in the morninge they return, bringing with them birche, bowes and branches of trees, to deck their assemblies withalle.'--Stubbes, Anatomy of Abuses, ed. 1585, leaf 94 (ed. Furnivall, p. 149). See also Strutt, Manners and Customs, iii. 177. Cf. Midsummer Night's Dream, i. 1, 167:-- 'To do observance to a morn of May.' See also l. 1500, and the note. 1049. _Hir yelow heer was broyded_, her yellow hair was braided. Yellow hair was esteemed a beauty; see Seven Sages, 477, ed. Weber; King Alisaunder, 207; and the instances in Burton, Anat. of Melancholy, pt. 3. sec. 2. mem. 2. subsec. 2. Boccaccio has here--'Co' biondi crini avvolti alla sua testa'; Tes. iii. 10. 1051. _the sonne upriste_, the sun's uprising; the _-e_ in _sonne_ represents the old genitive inflexion. _Upriste_ is here the dat. of the sb. _uprist_. It occurs also in Gower, Conf. Amantis, bk. i. ed. Pauli, i. 116. 1052. _as hir liste_, as it pleased her. 1053. _party_, partly; Fr. _en partie_. 1054. _sotil gerland_, a subtle garland; _subtle_ has here the exact force of the Lat. _subtilis_, finely woven. 1055. Cf. 'Con angelica voce'; Tes. iii. 10: and Troil. ii. 826. 1060. _evene-Ioynant_, joining, or adjoining.