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THE COURT OF VENVS (193-247).
182
Dryden (vol. iii. p. 78; Bell’s edition) paraphrases the lines thus:—
‘ Those laurelled chiefs were men of mighty fame ;
Nine worthies were they called of different rites,
Three Jews, three Pagans, and three Christian knights.’
— The Flower and the Leaf.
This is the division made by Holland. Shakespeare makes four of
them Pagans:—
'' King. Here is like to be a good presence of worthies: He presents Hector of
Troy; the swain, Pompey the Great; the parish curate, Alexander; Armado’s
page, Hercules ; the pedant, Judas Machabseus.”—Love's Labour's Lost, act v. sc. ii.
Stewart makes reference to the Nine Worthies :—
Thair sail he find als nobill and als fyne,
As euir wes ony of the nobill nyne ; vol. i. 11. 32, 33.
193. fair, a misprint for sair.
197. Richt desolait I traist of ane gude wane — 1 having no good
abode or resting-place.’ It occurs as wane in ‘ Sir Eglamour’:—
They namyd the chylde syr Degrabelle,
That welsome was of wone; 11. 866, 867.
Stewart says :—
This humbill king, quhen he beheld and saw
Gude Gilcrist with hair alss quhit as snaw,
Werie forwrocht, and richt weilsum of wane ; vol. iii. 11. 43,910-43,912.
209. . . . and maid him euer ford— ‘ and made himself always
forth,’ i.e., held on his way.
226. . . . stafsling— ‘ a sling fastened to the end of a staff.’ “ Staffe
slynge made of a clefte stycke, ruant. Slynge made in a shepherdes
fonde holletef—Palsgrave. Chaucer says :—
Sir Thopas drough on bak ful fast;
This geaunt at him stoones cast
Out of a fell staf slynge.
— The Tale of Sir Thopas, vol. iii. p. 122.
235. Into plane camp, &c. = ‘ In open battle with dangerous strokes
he brought many to their death.’ Chaucer says in ‘The Knightes
Tale’:—
He faught, and slough him manly as a knight
In pleyn bataille, and putte the folk to flight; 11. 129, 130.
Stewart uses the same phrase:—
In plane battell togidder thair tha met; vol. iii. 1. 47,877.
Barbour has plane melle :—
1 And nocht till stand in plane melle
Quhill the ta part discumfit be ; ’ Bruce, xviii. 11. 79, 80.
247. . . . Beirne='2i baron, a man of valour.’ It is used in ‘Sir
Isumbras’:—
The beryns he hitt appone the hode,
Thorowe the breste-bane it wode; 11. 454, 455.
182
Dryden (vol. iii. p. 78; Bell’s edition) paraphrases the lines thus:—
‘ Those laurelled chiefs were men of mighty fame ;
Nine worthies were they called of different rites,
Three Jews, three Pagans, and three Christian knights.’
— The Flower and the Leaf.
This is the division made by Holland. Shakespeare makes four of
them Pagans:—
'' King. Here is like to be a good presence of worthies: He presents Hector of
Troy; the swain, Pompey the Great; the parish curate, Alexander; Armado’s
page, Hercules ; the pedant, Judas Machabseus.”—Love's Labour's Lost, act v. sc. ii.
Stewart makes reference to the Nine Worthies :—
Thair sail he find als nobill and als fyne,
As euir wes ony of the nobill nyne ; vol. i. 11. 32, 33.
193. fair, a misprint for sair.
197. Richt desolait I traist of ane gude wane — 1 having no good
abode or resting-place.’ It occurs as wane in ‘ Sir Eglamour’:—
They namyd the chylde syr Degrabelle,
That welsome was of wone; 11. 866, 867.
Stewart says :—
This humbill king, quhen he beheld and saw
Gude Gilcrist with hair alss quhit as snaw,
Werie forwrocht, and richt weilsum of wane ; vol. iii. 11. 43,910-43,912.
209. . . . and maid him euer ford— ‘ and made himself always
forth,’ i.e., held on his way.
226. . . . stafsling— ‘ a sling fastened to the end of a staff.’ “ Staffe
slynge made of a clefte stycke, ruant. Slynge made in a shepherdes
fonde holletef—Palsgrave. Chaucer says :—
Sir Thopas drough on bak ful fast;
This geaunt at him stoones cast
Out of a fell staf slynge.
— The Tale of Sir Thopas, vol. iii. p. 122.
235. Into plane camp, &c. = ‘ In open battle with dangerous strokes
he brought many to their death.’ Chaucer says in ‘The Knightes
Tale’:—
He faught, and slough him manly as a knight
In pleyn bataille, and putte the folk to flight; 11. 129, 130.
Stewart uses the same phrase:—
In plane battell togidder thair tha met; vol. iii. 1. 47,877.
Barbour has plane melle :—
1 And nocht till stand in plane melle
Quhill the ta part discumfit be ; ’ Bruce, xviii. 11. 79, 80.
247. . . . Beirne='2i baron, a man of valour.’ It is used in ‘Sir
Isumbras’:—
The beryns he hitt appone the hode,
Thorowe the breste-bane it wode; 11. 454, 455.
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