19. =bacheler.= "A soldier not old or rich enough to lead his relations into battle with a banner. The original sense of the word is _little_, _small_, _young_, from Welsh _bach_."--_Webster._ 20. =floytynge.= Fluting. So, in Chaucer's "House of Fame," he says: "And many a floyte and litlyng horne, And pipes made of grene corne." 21. =he.= That is, the knight. The word _yeman_, or _yeoman_, is an abbreviation of _yeongeman_. As used by Chaucer, it means a servant of a rank above that of groom, but below that of squire. The present use of the word to signify a small landholder is of more modern origin. 22. =pocok arwës.= Arrows tipped with peacock feathers. 23. =bracer.= A kind of close sleeve laced upon the arm. "A bracer serveth for two causes, one to save his arme from the strype of the stringe, and his doublet from wearing; and the other is, that the stringe glidinge sharplye and quicklye off the bracer, maye make the sharper shoote."--_Roger Ascham's Toxophilus_, page 129. 24. =Cristofre.= An image of St. Christopher, which was thought to protect its wearer from hidden danger. 25. =seynt Loy.= St. Eloy, or Eligius. 26. =of gret disport.= Fond of gayety. 27. =men.= This word as here used is an indefinite pronoun equivalent to _one_, or _any one_. 28. "Love conquers all things." 29. =chapeleyne.= Probably _assistant_. 30. =a fair for the maistryë.= A fair one for the chief place. 31. "He would not give a pulled hen for that text"; that is, "he cared not a straw for it." Pulled = pylled = pilled = plucked. 32. =waterles.= Out of water. 33. =what.= Why, wherefore. 34. =wood.= Mad. Scotch _wud_, wild. "An' just as wud as wud can be."--_Burns._ 35. =no cost wolde he spare.= For this pleasure he spared no expense. 36. "That shone like the fire under a cauldron." 37. =lymytour.= One who was licensed to beg within a limited territory. 38. =ordres foure.= The Dominicans, the Franciscans, the Carmelites, and the Augustine Friars. 39. =post.= Pillar, support. Compare with the modern expression, "A pillar of the church." 40. =frankeleyns.= Country gentlemen; wealthy landholders. 41. =licentiat.= He had license from the pope to grant absolution in all cases. A curate's powers did not extend so far. 42. "Where he knew he would have." 43. See note 27, above. 44. =sellers of vitaille.= Givers of food, or a livelihood. The original meaning of the word _sell_ was to _give_. From A.-S. _syllan_, to give. 45. "In the beginning." The first words of St. John's Gospel in the Vulgate. 46. =purchas.= Income from begging. 47. =lovë-dayës.= Days appointed for the amicable settlement of differences, without recourse to law. 48. "He wished the sea were guarded." =Middelburgh=, a port in the Netherlands. =Orëwelle=, a port in Essex. 49. =scheeldës.= French crowns marked with a shield. Shillings. 50. =Oxenford.= Not the "ford of the ox," but the "ford of the river." _Ox_, from Celtic _esk_, _ouse_, water.