Ne hound for hert, or wilde boor, or deer,
Ne coup of golde, with floryns newe ybette,
That in the londe of Lybye may ben gette,
That Dido ne hath hit Eneas ysente;

1120

And all is payed, what that he hath spente.

Thus kan this honorable queene hir gestes calle,
As she that kan in fredome passen all.

1125

Eneas soothly eke, withouten les,

Hath sent to his shippe by Achates
After his sone, and after ryche thynges,

Booth cepter, clothes, broches, and eke rynges;
Somme for to were, and somme for to presente
To hire, that all thise noble thinges him sente;

1130

Latin, p. i. ch. Des Faucons, MS. Reg. 19, c. x. 'La seconde lignie est faucons, que hom apele pelerins, par ce que nus ne trove son ni. Ains est pris autresi come en pelerinage, et est mult legiers a norrir, et mult cortois, et vaillans, et de bone maniere.'"-Tyrwhitt.

"The gentle faucon, that with his fete distreineth

The kinges hand."-The Assembly of Foules, v. 337.

"The gentle falcon is the falco peregrinus [described in the passage quoted by Tyrwhitt], one of the most esteemed of the longwinged hawks, and beautifully described as distreining the King's hand with its foot, because carried by persons of the highest rank, and petted by them even on occasions of ceremony. Thus Sir Walter Scott, Hist. of Scotland, vol. i., relates that Mary of Guise, the Queen Regent, making some unpalatable request of the Earl of Angus, he answered her, as if speaking to a hawk which he held on his wrist, and was feeding at the time, 'The devil,' said he, 'is in the greedy gled (kite). Will she never be full ?'"-Bell. 1124. gestes, guests.

1125. fredome, frankness, generosity.

"Trouthe and honour, fredom and curtesie."-C. T. 46.

"flour of bachilerie,

As wel in fredom, as in chivalrie."-C. T. 17058.

1126. withouten les; see note on withouten any les, v. 1020.

And bad hys sone how that he sholde make
The presentynge, and to the queene it take.
Repeyred is this Achates agayne,
And Eneas ful blysful is and fayne,
To seene his yonge sone Ascanius.
For to him yt was reported thus,
That Cupido, that is the god of love,
At prayere of his moder hye above,
Hadde the likenesse of the childe ytake,
This noble queene enamoured to make
On Eneas. But of that scripture
Be as be may, I make of yt no cure.

But sooth is this, the queen hath made swich chere
Unto this child that wonder is to here;

And of the present that his fader sente,
She thanked him ful ofte in goode entente.
Thus is this queene in pleasaunce and joye,
With al thise newe lusty folke of Troy.

1133. take, to give over or deliver anything to another. "He took me certain gold, that wot I wel."-C. T. 14815. And to a bisschope, and to his constable eeke,

He took his wyf to kepe, whan he is goon

1135

1140

1145

To Scotland-ward, his foomen for to seeke.-C. T. 5137. "Therewith sir Tor alighted and tooke the dwarfe his speare." La Mort d'Arthure, v. 1, chap. 54.

"Now bring me the shield that I tooke you when ye went into the battaile against King Tollome."-La Mort d'Arthure, v. 3, chap. 39.

"A Knight he cleped by his name
And toke him as by way of fonde

A naked swerde to bere on hand."

Gower's Confessio Amantis, lib. 3, sect. 1.

And whan he had it thries radde

To open a buist [box] she him badde,

That she there toke him in present.

1134. repeyred, returned.. 1135. fayne, glad.

Gower's Confessio Amantis, lib. 5, sect. 4.

1143. cure, care; Lat. cura. 1144. chere, entertainment

And of the dedes hath she moore enquered
Of Eneas, and all the story lered
Of Troye; and al the longe day they twey
Entendeden for to speke and for to pley.
Of which ther gan to breden swich a fire,
That sely Dido hath now swich desire
With Eneas hire newe geste to deele,
That she loste hire hewe and eke hire heele.
Now to theffect, now to the fruyt of al,

Why I have tolde this storye, and tellen shal.
Thus I begynne:-It fil upon a nyghte,
Whanne that the moon upreysed had hire lyghte,
This noble queene unto hire reste wente.

1150

1155

1160

She siketh soore, and ganne hire selfe turmente;
She waketh, walwithe, maketh many a brayde,

1165

As doone thyse loveres, as I have herde sayde;
And at the laste, unto hire suster Anne
She made hire mone, and ryght thus spak she thanne.
'Now dere suster myn, what may it be

That me agasteth in my dreme?' quod she.
"This ilke new Trojane is so in my thoghte,
For that me thinketh he is so wel iwroughte,

1151. lered, learned.

1153. entendeden, attend.

1155. sely, simple, innocent, unsophisticated.

1170

"Silly' (the same word as the German 'selig'), has successively meant, (1) blessed, (2) innocent, (3) harmless, (4) weakly foolish." -Trench's Select Glossary, q. v.

See, also, Spenser's Faerie Queene, 1, 1, 30; 1, 6, 35; 3, 7, 8; 3, 8, 27; 3, 10, 25; 6, 11, 12; 6, 11, 27.

1157. heele, health.

1158. theffect, the effect, the main matter in hand.

1160. fil, past tense of falle, fell.

1163. siketh, sigheth.

1164. walwithe, rolls or tosses about ;-brayde, start.

1169. agasteth, terrifies.

1170. ilke, same.

1171. me thinketh, it seems to me ;-iwroughte, formed.

And eke so likly to ben a man,
And therwithal so mykel good he kan,
That al my love and lyf lyth in his cure.
Have ye nat herde hym telle his aventure?
Now certes, Anne, yif that ye rede me,
I wil fayne to him ywedded be;'

(This is theffect; what sholde I more seyne?)
In him lith alle, to doo me lyve or deyne.'

1175

Hire suster Anne, as she that kouth hire goode, 1180
Seyde as hire thoghte, and somedel yt withstoode.
But herof was so longe a sermonynge,

Yt were to longe to make rehersynge.
But, finally, yt may nat be with stonde;
Love wol love, for no wyght wol yt wonde.
The dawenyng upryst oute of the see,

1185

This amorouse queene chargeth hire meynee

The nettes dresse, and speres broode and kene;
An huntynge wol this lusty fresshe queene,
So priketh hire this newe joly woo.

1190

1172. And eke so likly to ben a man; i. e., And eke to be so

likely a man ;-likly, that may be liked, pleasing, agreeable.

1173. mykel, much.

1174. cure, care.

1176. rede, advise, counsel.

1177. fayne, gladly.

1178. theffect, the sum and substance.

1179. to doo, to make, or cause.

1180. kouth, past tense of conne, knew.

1185. wonde, A. S. wandian, to desist through fear; for no

wyght wol yt wonde, it will not desist for any body.

"For whan he seeth that he may win,

He wondeth for no cursednesse,

That he ne breketh the holinesse

And doth to God no reverence.'

Gower's Confessio Amantis, lib. 5, sect. 12.

1187. meynee, attendants; see note on meinee, v. 1057.

1188. dresse, to prepare, make ready.

1189. An, for on.

To hors is al hire lusty folke ygoo;
Unto the courte the houndes ben ybroughte,
And up on coursere, swyfte as any thoughte,
Hire yonge knyghtes heven al aboute,
And of hire women eke an huge route.
Upon a thikke palfrey, paper white,
With sadel rede, embrouded with delyte,
Of golde the barres, up enbosed heighe,
Sitte Lido, al in golde and perrey wreigh.
And she is faire as is the bryghte morwe,
That heeleth seke folkes of nyghtes sorwe.
Upon a coursere, startlyng as the fire,
Men myghte turne him with a lytel wire,
Sitte Eneas, lyke Phebus to devyse,
So was he fressh arrayed in hys wyse.
The fomy bridel, with the bitte of golde,
Governeth he ryght as himselfe hathe wolde.
And foorth this noble queene, this lady ride
On huntyng, with this Trojan by hire syde.

1194. heven, rise, mount.

1198. barres, stripes ;-enbosed, raised.

1195

1200

1205

1199. perrey, gems, precious stones. Fr. pierrerie; pierre, a stone;-wreigh, wrought.

1204. devyse, to relate; lyke Phebus to devyse, worthy to be described as a Phoebus, in his appearance.

1207. wolde, past part. of wille, willed, wished. "Then said Merlin to Balin, 'Thou hast done thy selfe great hurt, because thou did not save this lady that slew her selfe, that might have saved her if thou had would.'"-La Mort d'Arthure, v. 1, c. 33. "He beate mee and my fellowes, and might have slaine us if hee had would.” -Id. v. 3, c. 119. "Wit yee well, faire damosell, that I might have beene married and [i. e., if] I had would.”—Id. v. 3, c. 123.

1209. on huntyng; this is the original form of a-hunting, the particle a- being a corruption of the prep. on. So a-maying was originally on maying. “Shee [Guenever] gave them warning, that early in the morning shee should ride on maying into woods and fields beside Westminster So on the morrow they tooke

their horses, and rode on maying with the queene in great joy and delight."-La Mort d'Arthure, v. 3, c. 129.