Page 71. v. 661. _Of Judas Machabeus_] “Gaultier de Belleperche Arbalestrier, ou Gaultier Arbalestrier de Belleperche, commença _le Romans de Judas Machabee_, qu’il poursuiuit jusques à sa mort.... Pierre du Riez le coutinua jusques à la fin.” Fauchet’s _Recveil de l’origine de la langue et poesie Françoise_, &c., p. 197.
v. 662.—_of Cesar Julious_] In the prologue to an ancient MS. poem, _The boke of Stories called Cursor Mundi_, translated from the French, mention is made of the _romance_
Warton’s _Hist. of E. P._ i. 123, note, ed. 4to.
—— _of the loue betwene_ _Paris and Vyene_]
This prose romance was printed by Caxton in folio: _Here begynneth thystorye of the noble ryght valyaunt and worthy knyght Parys, and of the fayr Vyēne the daulphyns doughter of Vyennoys, the whyche suffred many aduersytees bycause of theyr true loue or they coude enioye the effect therof of eche other_. Colophon: _Thus endeth thystorye of the noble_, &c. &c., _translated out of frensshe in to englysshe by Wylliam Caxton at Westmestre fynysshed the last day of August the yere of our lord MCCCCLXXXV, and enprynted the xix day of decembre the same yere, and the fyrst yere of the regne of kyng Harry the seuenth_.
Gawin Douglas tells us in his _Palice of Honour_, that, among the attendants on Venus,
“Of France I saw thair _Paris and Veane_.”
Page 71. v. 665. _duke Hannyball_]—_duke_, i. e. leader, lord.—So Lydgate;
“Which brother was vnto _duke Haniball_.”
_Fall of Prynces_, B. ii. leaf xlv. ed. Wayland;
and in a copy of verses entitled _Thonke God of alle_, he applies the word to our Saviour;
“The dereworth _duke_ that deme vs shalle.”
v. 667. _Fordrede_] i. e. utterly, much afraid.
“To wretthe the king thai were _for dred_ [_sic_].”
_Seynt Katerine_, p. 170,—Turnbull’s _Legendæ Catholicæ_ (from the Auchinleck MS.).
_Of Hector of Troye_ _That was all theyr ioye_]
See the _Warres of Troy_ by Lydgate, a paraphrastical translation of Guido de Colonna’s _Historia Trojana_: it was first printed in 1513. See too the _Recuyel of the Historyes of Troy_. Compare Hawes;
“Of the worthy _Hector that was all theyr ioye_.”
_The Pastime of pleasure_, sig. P iii. ed. 1555.
—— _of the loue so hote_ _That made Troylus to dote_ _Vpon fayre Cressyde, &c._]