445. _A man in blak_; John of Gaunt, in mourning for the loss of his wife
Blaunche. Imitated by Lydgate, in his Complaint of the Black Knight, l.
130, and by Spenser, in his Daphnaida:--
'I did espie
Where towards me a sory wight did cost
Clad all in black, that mourning did bewray.'