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[67]
'Jamais je veux vivre, si tu ne le compares.'

[68]
'Outrage' here means 'act of boldness,' as elsewhere, e.g. 'si fist une grant apertise d'armes et un grant outrage.'

[69]
'Qui estoit des draps du roy.' He owned large estates in Essex and also shops in London. He became one of the councillors of Richard II.

[70]
George, earl of March and Dunbar: the text gives Mare, but there was at this time no earl of Mar.

[71]
Froissart says 'eight English leagues.' In the next chapter the distance becomes 'seven little leagues,' and later on, 'a six English miles,' where the original is 'lieues.' The actual distance is about thirty miles. The translator gives the form 'Combur' here, but 'Ottenburge' in the next chapter, as the name of the place. It is remarkable indeed how little trouble he seems to have taken generally to give English names correctly. In this chapter we have 'Nymyche' for 'Alnwick' and 'Pouclan' for 'Pontland,' forms rather less like the real names than those which he found in the French text, viz. Nynich and Ponclau.

[72]
Froissart says, 'if he comes, it shall be defended.' The translator perhaps means 'he shall be prevented.'

[73]
i.e. 'well fought with.'

[74]
In French, 'ilz se arresterent,' without 'and.'

[75]
'Which is called in the country Dalkeith.' The French has 'que on nomme au pays Dacquest,' of which the translator makes 'in the countrey of Alquest.'

[76]
'By both sides,' i.e. Scotch and English.

[77]
'When they have well fought.'

[78]
'No man was so well armed that he did not fear the great strokes which he gave.'

[79]
Or, according to another reading, 'Cocherel.'

[80]
Perhaps 'Malcolm Drummond.'

[81]
The true reading seems to be 'Sandilands.'

[82]
Perhaps 'Coningham.'

[83]
Either 'Copeland' or 'Copeldike.'

[84]
The word 'lieue' is translated 'mile' throughout.

[85]
Or rather, 'very pensive leaning against a window,' and afterwards the expression 'came forth of the study to him' should be 'broke off his thought and came towards him.'

[86]
That is, 'After the battle was over and every man had returned,' but it should be, 'After all this was done and everything was gathered together.'

[87]
These references are to the first two editions of Holinshed's Chronicles. The modernization of the spelling, etc., follows that of Mr. L. Wilkington, whose notes are signed W.

[88]
Here follow etymologies of the terms "Duke," "Marquess," and "Baron."—W.

[89]
1 Sam. ii. 15; 1 Kings i. 7.—H.

[90]
Here follows a long paragraph on the character of the clergy which is more appropriate to the chapter on "The Church."—W.

[91]
Here follows a learned disquisition upon "Valvasors."—W.

[92]
Here follows a discourse uponEquites Aurati.—W.

[93]
Here is a description of dubbing a knight.—W.

[94]
Long details are given of Garter history, very inaccurate, both here and in the last omitted passage.—W.

[95]
Derivations of "Esquire" and "Gentleman" are given.—W.

[96]
Kerseys.

[97]
Capite censi, or Proletarii—H.

[98]
The Ceylonese. The Greek name for the island of Ceylon was Taprobane, which Harrison used merely as a classical scholar.—W.

[99]
If Harrison means to give us the impression that a city has any direct connection with episcopal affairs, he is quite in error. Cities are distinctly royal and imperial institutions. The accident of the number of cities and sees being the same comes from the natural tendency of the two institutions to drift together, though of distinct origin—W.

[100]
Here follows a long and learned disquisition upon the Roman and other early towns, especially about St. Albans, a portion of which will be found in the Appendix.—W.

[101]
Here follows an allusion to the decay of Eastern cities.—W.

[102]
The old and proper form of the modern pumpkin.—W.

[103]
The first is a variant on a Keltic, the second on a Saxon word, both relating to matters sufficiently indicated in the text.—W.

[104]
A vegetable something like a carrot.

[105]
A kind of turnip.

[106]
Earthly stars.

[107]
"And paints terrestrial constellations with varied flowers."

[108]
Refuse-heaps.

[109]
Probably cornels.

[110]
Direct.

[111]
Market.

[112]
Horse-loads.

[113]
Loft.

[114]
The ancient London counterpart of the more modern "Rag Fair" known to literary fame.—W.

[115]
The Kermess, or literally, "Church mass," so famous in "Faust."—W.

[116]
Overcome.

[117]
A fool or dupe.

[118]
"Thomas, not innocent of treason, has intrigued against the majesty of our court."

[119]
"Sinners build on the back of the church."

[120]
Here follows a story about the bootless errand of a pope's legate in 1452.—W.

[121]
Sweet cicely, sometimes miscalled myrrh. Mure is the Saxon word. At one time the plant was not uncommon as a salad.—W.

[122]
Neither "silent" nor "garrulous."

[123]
A famine at hand is first seen in the horse-manger, when the poor do fall to horse corn.—H.

[124]
The size of bread is very ill kept or not at all looked unto in the country towns or markets.—H.

[125]
Holinshed. This occurs in the last of Harrison's prefatory matter.—W.

[126]
This word is not obsolete. South coast countrymen still eatnuntions and notluncheons.—W.

[127]
Here follows a disquisition upon the table practices of the ancients.—W.

[128] (COS.)