“Phedra and Theseus Progne and Thereus _Pasyphe and Taurus_ Who lyketh to proue Canace and Machareus Galathea and Pamphylus Was neuer more dolorous _And all for true loue_.”
I may add too a passage from Caxton’s _Boke of Eneydos_, &c. (translated from the French), 1490; “The wyffe of kynge Mynos of Crete was named Pasyfa that was a grete lady and a fayr aboue alle other ladyes of the royame.... The quene Pasyfa _was wyth chylde by kynge Mynos_, and whan her tyme was comen she was delyuered of a creature that was halfe a man and halfe a bulle.” Sig. h 6.
Page 403. v. 1062. _aquyte_] i. e. requite.
Page 404. v. 1068. _gyse_] i. e. guise, fashion.
_Galathea, the made well besene, &c._ ... _By Maro_]
—_the made well besene_, i. e. the maid of good appearance, fair to see: the expression applied, as here, to personal appearance, independent of dress, is, I apprehend, very unusual; see notes, p. 112. v. 283. p. 295. v. 957. p. 311. v. 483: _By Maro_; vide _Ecl_. i. and iii.
v. 1109. _Wele was hym_] i. e. He was in good condition.
v. 1114. _astate_] i. e. estate,—meaning here—state, raised chair or throne with a canopy: compare v. 484.
Page 406. v. 1117. _loked ... a glum_] i. e. looked ... a gloomy, sour look.
v. 1118. _There was amonge them no worde then but mum_] See note, p. 278. v. 83.
v. 1124. _pretence_] i. e. pretension, claim.
v. 1128. _princes of astate_] i. e. princess of estate, rank, dignity.
v. 1132. _condiscendyng_] See note, p. 237. v. 39.
Page 407. v. 1135. _enduce_] i. e. bring in, adduce.
v. 1136. _lay_] See note, p. 219. v. 103.
v. 1156. _losende_] i. e. loosened, loosed.
v. 1158. _byse_] Hearne in his Gloss. to _Langtoft’s Chron._ has “_bis_, grey, black,” with an eye, no doubt, to the line at p. 230,
and Sir F. Madden explains the word “white or grey” in his Gloss. to _Syr Gawayne_, &c., referring to the line “Of golde, azure, and _byse_” in _Syre Gawene and The Carle of Carelyle_, p. 204. But we also find “_Byce_ a colour _azur_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr_., 1530. fol. xx. (Table of Subst.). “Scryueners wryte with blacke, red, purple, grene, _blewe or byce_, and suche other.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. Q i. ed. 1530. “_Bize_ Blew Byze, a delicate Blew.” Holme’s _Acad. of Arm._, 1688. B. iii. p. 145.