1726. _Kranes, swannes, veneysun_, &c. We have here the principal constituents of what formed the banquets of our ancestors. The old Romances abound with descriptions of this nature, which coincide exactly with the present. See _Richard Cœur de Lion_, l. 4221; _Guy of Warwick; The Squyr of Lowe Degre_, l. 317; and _Morte Arthure_, ed. Perry, p. 7. “Wine is common,” says Dr Pegge, speaking of the entertainments of the 14th century, “both red and white. This article they partly had of their own growth, and partly by importation from France and Greece.” A few examples will illustrate this: He laid the cloth, and set forth bread, And also wine, both _white and red_. _Sir Degore_, ap. Ellis, _Metr. Rom._ V. 3, p. 375. And dronke wyn, and eke pyment, _Whyt and red_, al to talent. _Kyng Alisaunder_, l. 4178. [Cf. _Piers Plowman_, Text B, at the end of the _Prologue_.] In the _Squyr of Lowe Degre_ is a long list of these wines, which has received considerable illustration in the curious work of Dr Henderson. [1736. I print _kiwing_, as in Sir F. Madden’s edition; but I quite give up the meaning of it, and doubt if it is put for _kirving_. The word is obscurely written, and looks like _kilþing_, and my impression is that it is miswritten for _ilk þing_, the word _þe_ being put for _þer_, as frequently elsewhere. We should thus get _hwan he haueden þer ilk þing deled_, when they had there distributed every thing. This is, at any rate, the sense of the passage.] 1749. _And sende him unto the greyues._ In the French, Havelok is simply sent to an _ostel_, and the _greyve_ does not appear in the story. 1806. _Hauelok lifte up_, &c. In the French, all the amusing details relative to Robert and Huwe Raven are omitted, and Havelok is made to retire to a monastery, where he defends himself by throwing down the stones on his assailants. [1826. _wolde_, offered at, intended to hit, _would_ have hit.] 1838. _And shoten on him, so don on bere Dogges, that wolden him to-tere._ The same comparison is made use of in the Romance of Horn Childe: The Yrise folk about him yode, As hondes do to bare. Rits. _Metr. Rom._ V. III. p. 289. See Note on l. 2320. [1914. “Cursed be he who cares! for they deserved it! What did they? There were they worried.” A mark of interrogation seems required after _dide he_.] 1926-1930. _Sket cam tiding_, &c. Comp. the Fr. l. 719. La nouele vint a chastel, Au seneschal, qui n’est pas bel, Qe cil qu’il auoit herbergé Cinc de ses homes out tué. [1932. Apparently corrupt. Perhaps _is_ should be _it_. “That this strife--as to what it meant.”]