1008. I. e. Beauty was also the name of an arrow; see l. 952. The allegory
is rather of a mixed kind.
1014. _byrde_, i. e. bride (though the words are different); Fr.
_espousee_. _bour_, bower; the usual name for a lady's chamber.
1018. I alter the _wintred_ of the old copies to _windred_, to make the
form agree with that in l. 1020. To _windre_ is evidently a form suggested
by the Fr. _guignier_. There are two verbs of this form; the more common is
_guigner_, to wink (see Cotgrave); the other is given by Godefroy as
_guignier_, _guigner_, _guingnier_, _guinier_, _gignier_, with the senses
'parer, farder,' i. e. to trick out. Note the original line: 'Ne fu fardee
ne guignie'; and again in l. 2180: 'Mais ne te farde ne guigne.' The sense,
in the present passage, is evidently 'to trim,' with reference to the
eyebrows. 'Her eyebrows were not artificially embellished.'
_Poppen_, in l. 1019, has much the same sense, and is evidently allied to
F. _popin_, 'spruce, neat, briske, trimme, fine,' in Cotgrave.
1031. I read _Wys_ for want of a better word; it answers to one sense of
Lat. _sapidus_, whence the F. _sade_ is derived. However, Cotgrave explains
_sade_ by 'pretty, neat, spruce, fine, compt, minion, quaint.' Perhap
_Queint_ or _Fine_ would do better.
1049. _in hir daungere_, under her control; see Prol. A 663, and the note.
And see l. 1470.
1050. _losengere_, deceiver, flatterer; see Non. Pr. Ta. B 4516; Legend of
Good Women, 352. Cf. ll. 1056, 1064 below.