v. 1390. _The Repete of the recule of Rosamundis bowre_]—_Repete_, i. e. Repetition, Recital: _recule_; see note on v. 1187. p. 327. v. 1392. _propre_] i. e. pretty. —— _ieloffer flowre_] See note, p. 147. v. 1052. v. 1393. _to reckeles_] i. e. too reckless. v. 1396. _Mok there loste her sho_] A proverbial expression, which occurs again in our author’s _Why come ye nat to Courte_, v. 83. vol. ii. 29: in his _Colyn Cloute_ we find “Sho the _mockysshe_ mare.” v. 181. vol. i. 318. v. 1397. _barbican_] “A _Barbican_, antemurale, promurale, tormentorum bellicorum sedes, locus.” Coles’s _Dict._ “It was generally,” says Nares (referring to King on Anc. Castles, _Archael._), “a small round tower, for the station of an advanced guard, placed just before the outward gate of the castle yard, or ballium.” _Gloss._ in v. And see Richardson’s _Dict._ in v. Page 416. v. 1398. _sawte_] i. e. assault. v. 1399. _blo_] i. e. livid: see note, p. 103. v. 3. v. 1400. _Of Exione, her lambis, &c._] See note _ad loc._ If the reader understands the line, it is more than I do. Page 417. v. 1407. _forster_] i. e. forester. v. 1409. _to yerne and to quest_] Coles renders both these hunting-terms by the same word, “_nicto_” (i. e. open, give tongue). _Dict._ Turbervile, enumerating “the sundry noyses of houndes,” tells us that “when they are earnest eyther in the chace or in the earth, we say _They yearne_.” _Noble Art of Venerie_, &c. p. 242. ed. 1611. “_Quest_, united cry of the hounds.” Sir F. Madden’s Gloss. to _Syr Gawayne_, &c. v. 1410. _With litell besynes standith moche rest_] “_Great rest standeth in little businesse_.” _Good Counsaile_,—Chaucer’s _Workes_, fol. 319. ed. 1602. v. 1411. _make_] i. e. mate, wife. v. 1412. _ble_] i. e. colour, complexion. v. 1413. _wele_] i. e. well. v. 1416. _Some_] i. e. Soham. v. 1418. _Wofully arayd_] In vol. i. 141. v. 1419. _making_] i. e. composing. v. 1420. _Vexilla regis_] In vol. i. 144. v. 1421. _Sacris solemniis_] As the still-extant piece mentioned in the preceding line, and headed _Vexilla regis_, &c., is not a translation of that hymn, so we may with probability conclude that this was not a version of the hymn beginning “_Sacris solemniis_ juncta sint gaudia,” which may be found in _Hymni Ecclesiæ e Breviario Parisiensi_, 1838. p. 94. v. 1424. _sadnes_] i. e. seriousness. v. 1425. _Galiene_ } v. 1426. _Ipocras_ } i. e. Galen, Hippocrates. “Old _Hippocras_, Hali, and _Gallien_.” Chaucer’s _Prol. to Cant. Tales_, v. 433. ed. Tyr. “For _Ipocras_ nor yet _Galien_.” _Poems_ by C. Duke of Orleans,—_MS. Harl._ 682. fol. 103. —— _Auycen_] An Arabian physician of the tenth century. Page 418. v. 1428. _Albumasar_] See note, p. 133. v. 501. —— _ken_] i. e. instruct (pleonastically coupled with “enforme,” as in v. 825). v. 1430. _gose_] i. e. goose. v. 1432. _ageyne_] i. e. against.