[Footnote 64: Fr. _tache_, spot, staine, blemish, reproach. C.] [Footnote 65: sobriety, gravity.] [Footnote 66: Edward IV. had ‘Bannerettes IIII, or Bacheler Knights, to be kervers and cupberers in this courte.’ _H. Ord._, p. 32.] [Footnote 67: See the _Termes of a Keruer_ in Wynkyn de Worde’s _Boke of Keruynge_ below.] [Footnote 68: to embrew. _Ferrum tingere sanguine._ Baret.] [Footnote 69: The table-knife, ‘Mensal knyfe, or borde knyfe, _Mensalis_,’ P. Parv., was, I suppose, a lighter knife than the trencher-knife used for cutting trenchers off very stale coarse loaves.] [Footnote 70: ? Fr. _pareil_, A match or fellow. C.] [Footnote 71: A.S. _gramian_, to anger.] [Footnote 72: Sowce mete, _Succidium_. P. Parv.] [Footnote 73: ? Crop or crawe, or cropon of a beste (croupe or cropon), _Clunis_. P. Parv. Crops are emptied before birds are cooked.] [Footnote 74: A.S. _beniman_, take away, deprive.] [Footnote 75: Fr. _achever_, To atchieue; to end, finish. Cot.] [Footnote 76: Hwyr, cappe (hure H.), _Tena_. A.S. _hufe_, a tiara, ornament. Promptorium Parv.] [Footnote 77: Chyne, of bestys bakke. _Spina._ P. Parv.] [Footnote 78: slices, strips.] [Footnote 79: ‘_De haute graisse_, Full, plumpe, goodlie, fat, well-fed, in good liking.’ Cotgrave.] [Footnote 80: Fr. _arracher_. To root vp ... pull away by violence. Cotgrave. [[Compare, “and the Geaunte pulled and drough, but he myght hym not _a-race_ from the sadell.” _Merlin_, Pt. II. p. 346 (E. E. T. Soc. 1866).]] ] [Footnote 81: The Bittern or Bittour, _Ardea Stellaris_.] [Footnote 82: _Egrette_, as _Aigrette_; A foule that resembles a Heron. _Aigrette_ (A foule verie like a Heron, but white); a criell Heron, or dwarfe Heron. Cot. _Ardea alba_, A crielle or dwarfe heron. Cooper.] [Footnote 83: Snype, or snyte, byrde, _Ibex._ P. P. A snipe or snite: a bird lesse than a woodcocke. _Gallinago minor_, &c. Baret.] [Footnote 84: A small Heron or kind of Heron; Shakspere’s editors’ _handsaw_. The spelling _heronshaw_ misled Cotgrave, &c.; he has _Haironniere_. A herons neast, or ayrie; a _herne_-shaw or shaw of wood, wherein herons breed. ‘An Hearne. _Ardea._ A hearnsew, _Ardeola_.’ Baret, 1580. ‘Fr. _heronceau_, a young heron, gives E. _heronshaw_,’ Wedgwood. I cannot find _heronceau_, only _heronneau_. ‘A yong _herensew_ is lyghter of dygestyon than a crane. A. Borde. _Regyment_, fol. F i, ed. 1567. ‘In actual application a _heronshaw_, _hernshaw_ or _hernsew_, is simply a Common Heron (Ardea Vulgaris) with no distinction as to age, &c.’ Atkinson.]