_Fall of Prynces_, B. ii. leaf xlv. ed. Wayland; and in a copy of verses entitled _Thonke God of alle_, he applies the word to our Saviour; “The dereworth _duke_ that deme vs shalle.” _MS. Cott. Calig._ A ii. fol. 66. v. 667. _Fordrede_] i. e. utterly, much afraid. “To wretthe the king thai were _for dred_ [_sic_].” _Seynt Katerine_, p. 170,—Turnbull’s _Legendæ Catholicæ_ (from the Auchinleck MS.). v. 668. _wake_] i. e. watch,—besiege. v. 673. _Of Hector of Troye_ _That was all theyr ioye_] See the _Warres of Troy_ by Lydgate, a paraphrastical translation of Guido de Colonna’s _Historia Trojana_: it was first printed in 1513. See too the _Recuyel of the Historyes of Troy_. Compare Hawes; “Of the worthy _Hector that was all theyr ioye_.” _The Pastime of pleasure_, sig. P iii. ed. 1555. v. 677. —— _of the loue so hote_ _That made Troylus to dote_ _Vpon fayre Cressyde, &c._] See Chaucer’s _Troilus and Creseide_. Page 72. v. 682. _Pandaer_] Or _Pandare_ as Chaucer occasionally calls Pandarus. —— _bylles_] i. e. letters: see Chaucer’s _Troilus and Creseide_. v. 686. _An ouche, or els a ryng_] “_Nouche_. Monile.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. “_Ouche_ for a bonnet _afficquet_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. li. (Table of Subst.). “He gaue her an _ouche_ couched with perles, &c.... _monile_.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. k iii. ed. 1530.—Concerning _ouche_ (jewel, ornament, &c.), a word whose etymology and primary signification are uncertain, see Tyrwhitt’s _Gloss._, to Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_, v. _Nouches_, and Richardson’s Dict. in v. _Ouch_.—Here, perhaps, it means a brooch: for in the third book of Chaucer’s _Troilus and Creseide_, Cressid proposes that Pandarus should bear a “blew ring” from her to Troilus; and (_ibid._) afterwards the lovers “enterchaungeden her _ringes_, Of which I can not tellen no scripture, But well I wot, a _broche_ of gold and azure, In which a Rubbie set was like an herte, Creseide him yaue, and stacke it on his sherte.” Chaucer’s _Workes_, fol. 164. ed. 1602. After Cressid becomes acquainted with Diomede, she gives him _a brooch_, which she had received from Troilus on the day of her departure from Troy. _Id._ fols. 179, 181. In Henrysoun’s _Testament of Creseide_ (a poem of no mean beauty), Cressid, stricken with leprosy, bequeathes to Troilus _a ring_ which he had given her. _Id._ fol. 184. Page 72. v. 700. _That made the male to wryng_] So Skelton elsewhere; “That ye can not espye Howe the _male_ dothe _wrye_.” _Colyn Cloute_, v. 687. vol. i. 337. “The countrynge at Cales _Wrang_ vs on the _males_.” _Why come ye nat to Courte_, v. 74. vol. ii. 29, and so Lydgate; “Now al so mot I thryue and the, saide he than, I can nat se for alle wittes and espyes, And craft and kunnyng, but that _the male so wryes_ That no kunnyng may preuayl and appere Ayens a womans wytt and hir answere.”