Page 21, l. 19. “_An olde Fox._” --Sword, so called, it is said, from the figure of a fox anciently engraved upon the blade; or, as Nares suggests, from the name of some celebrated cutler. “Thou diest on point of fox” (Shakespeare, “Henry V.,” act iv., sc. 4). Page 21, l. 23. “_Fletcher._” --An arrow-maker (_fléchier_), with which trade the manufacture of bows, properly the business of the _bowyer_, was naturally combined. The frequency of the name in our own day might be alleged in proof of the ancient importance of the industry, but in most cases it is probably derived from _flesher_, a butcher. Page 22, l. 1 [Stz. 36]. “_The Light-horse and the Bard._” --A _barded_ horse (French _bardelle_, a pack-saddle) is one with the body entirely covered with armour. “For he was _barded_ from counter to tail” (“Lay of the Last Minstrel”). Page 23, l. 17 [Stz. 42]. “_The scarlet Iudge might now set vp his Mule._” --“Judges and serjeants rode to Westminster Hall on mules; whence it is said of a young man studying the law, ‘I see he was never born to ride upon a _moyle_’ (‘Every Man out of his Humour,’ ii. 3); that is, he will never be eminent in his profession” (Nares). It is an odd example of the mutations of ordinary speech that if we now heard of a judge setting up a mule, we should understand the exact contrary of what was understood by Drayton. A modern writer would more probably have said, set _down_. Page 23, l. 25 [Stz. 43]. “_By this, the Counsell of this Warre had met._” --A curious echo of Spenser: “By this the northern waggoner had set.” Page 24, l. 16 [Stz. 45]. “_Sleeue._” --Entirely obsolete in English, but France still knows the Channel as _La Manche_. Page 24, l. 19 [Stz. 46]. “_Scripts of Mart._” --Letters of marque. “_Mart_, originally for _Mars_. It was probably this use of _mart_ that led so many authors to use letters of mart, instead of marque, supposing it to mean _letters of war_. Under this persuasion Drayton put ‘script of mart’ as equivalent” (Nares). Page 24, l. 22. “_Deepe._” --Dieppe. Page 24, l. 28 [Stz. 47]. “_Like the huge Ruck from Gillingham that flewe._” --It seems remarkable to meet with the _roc_ of the “Arabian Nights” in English so long before the existence of any translation. The word, however, occurs in Bishop Hall’s “Satires,” thirty years before Drayton. It probably came into our language from the Italian, being first used by Marco Polo, who says (part iii., chap. 35): “To return to the griffon; the people of the island do not know it by that name, but call it always _ruc_; but we, from their extraordinary size, certainly conclude them to be griffons.” Page 25, l. 2 [Stz. 48]. “_Stoad._” --Not found in the dictionaries, but apparently equivalent to _stowage_, and hence in this place to _cargo_.