[166] Antlered harts. The white hart was the favourite badge of Richard II. [167] Horned by nature. [168] Rife. [169] Realm. [170] In the time of your need. [171] Name. Whoever wore a lord's livery was bound in honour to espouse the cause of the donor in any quarrel. [172] Neither in fierceness nor in folly. [173] Astonished. [174] For awe of the eagle. The eagle represents Henry, Duke of Lancaster, afterwards Henry IV. [175] It would please. [176] Whoever. [177] Teach. [178] What sort of advice. [179] To mark his servants. [180] Or serve them with signs--_e.g._, badges. [181] Whoso had travelled through woods and towns, or passed the roads where the Prince dwelt, would see more than enough of hearts and hinds on retainers' breasts, or else the livery of some lord who destroyed the law. [182] Cumbered. [183] Deserved. [184] Talked. [185] Left. [186] Man. [187] Plumage. [188] Their badges. [189] In order that men should be afraid to ask any amendment against their misdeeds. [190] _I.e._, gave a badge to. [191] Homely hearts. There is a play on the words "heart" and "hart": "For one that you marked with a hart's badge you lost ten score of homely hearts." [192] Ailed. [193] Luxuriousness. [194] Man. [195] Ought. [196] Wide. [197] That spilt all the broth and upset the pot among the coals. ISABELLA OF FRANCE RETURNS TO HER OWN COUNTRY (1399). SOURCE.--_Archæologia_ (London, 1824), xx. 237-241. [Translation of a French Metrical History of the Deposition of Richard II.]