And after rode the quene and Emelie, And thus they paffen thurghout the citee, It n'as not of the day yet fully prime. 2575 Ipolita the quene, and Emelie, 2580 And other ladies in degrees aboute, Unto the fetes prefeth all the route. And westward thurgh the gates under Mart Arcite, and cke the hundred of his part, With baner red, is entred right anon; 2585 Is, under Venus, eftward in the place, With baner white, and hardy chere and face. So even without variatioun 2590 Ther n'ere fwiche compagnies never twey; 2595 Whan that hir names red were everich on, Tho were the gates fhette, and cried was loude, Do now your devoir, yonge knightes proude. 26co The heraudes left hir priking up and doun. 2605 2610 Ther fee men who can juste and who can ride : He foineth on his foo with a tronchoun, And he him hurtleth with his hors adoun: V. 2608. the berte fpone] This part of the human body is not mentioned in any dictionary that I have fcen. The following paffage of Johnion [SadShepherd, A. i, S. vi,] would incline one to fufpect that it means the concave part of the breast, where the lower ribs unite with the cartilago enjiformis; he that undoes bim, [the decr] Doth cleave the brisket hone, upon the spoon. Of which a little gristle grow The gloff. fuppofes fone to be a participle, fignifying thruft, driven, putht, from the It. fpingere. .2617. He foineth on his joo] I have ventured to substitute foo instead of foot or feet, the readings of the mill. Foot seems to have been originally introduced by a copii from the preceding line, and to have been afterwards altered to feet, in ors der to make fome fenfe. He thurgh the body is hurt, and fith ytake Maugre his hed, and brought unto the flake, 2620 And fomtime doth hem Thefeus to rest, Ful oft a day han thilke Thebanes two 2625 Ther n'as no tigre in the vale of Galaphey, 2630 For jalous herte upon this Palamon; Ne in Belmarie ther n'is fo fell leon That hunted is, or for his hunger wood, 2635 And made his fwerd depe in his flesh to bite; V. 2628. the vale of Galapbey] This word is variously written, Colaphey, Galgaphey, Galapey. There was a town called Galapha in Mauritania Tingitana, upon the river Malva, [Cellar. Geog. Ant. v. ii. p. 935,] which perhaps may have given name to the vale here meant. For Belmarie, ver. 2632, see the note on ver. 57. > And by the force of twenty is he take So hitte him Palamon or he were take: 2645 But all for nought, he was brought to the stake: 2650 Who forweth now but woful Palamon, That mofte no more gon again to fight? And whan that Thefeus had feen that fight Unto the folk that foughten thus eche on 2655 He cried, Ho! no more, for it is don. Arcite of Thebes fhal have Emelie, 2660 That by his fortune hath hire fayre yworne. Anon ther is a noife of peple begoune For joye of this fo loud and high withall It femed that the liftes fhulden fall. What can now fayre Venus done above? 2665 What faith fhe now? what doth this quene of Love But wepeth fo for wanting of hire will Til that hire teres in the liftes fill: She fayde, I am afhamed doutelees. Saturnus fayde, Daughter, hold thy pees: 2670 Mars hath his will, his knight hath all his bone, The trompoures with the loude miaftrakcie, This fierce Arcite hath of his helme ydon, And the again him cast a frendlich eye, 2675 2680 2683 .2673. The trompoures] The trumpeters; so the best mil If the learned editor of Ancient Scottish Poems had found this word in this fenfe in his copy of Chaucer he would not, I apprehend, have looked any further for an explanation of it in The Dance, by Dunbar, st. ii. v. 10, p. 27. V. 2577. Whiche a miracle] It is fcarce necessary to observe that which, in our ancient language, was often used for who and what. It is used for what here, and again, ver. 5621, 6875. . 2685. And was all his in chere as his in berte] I have patched up this verse as well as I could out of the different copies. There is no authority, as I recollect, for the first in, except Ca. 2, but it feems abfolutely neceffary: and all the copies read-as in his herte-which I think is evidently wrong. ¥. 2686. a Fury] Moft of the copies have a fire, mf. A. reads a Fayr, from which I have made the prefent reading, as in The Thefeida it is Herinis, i. e. Erinnys, one of the Furies. |