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VII.CHEVY CHASE.397the ground that myne does not mean many, and pie is not a fold. Thecontext would lead us to suppose that it is some part of a man's bodyamiour,and we may reasonably guess it to be a corruption of rnanople,a French term for a large gauntlet protecting the hand and the wholefore-arm. Roquefort's Glossaire gives—' Manoples, Gantelets, armespr^servatrices des mains et de I'avant-bras ;Many sterne, &c. ;65. Myllan, Milan steel.de mantialis, manipulus.'many stern ones they struck down straight.66. Worthe frechys, for worthi frehes, worthy men.67. Sprente, spurted. Heal or ran, hail or rain.68. I/eth, in faith.74. Wane, the Northern form of O. Eng. wone, a quantity, multitudeit means a single arrow out of a vast quantity.'^neas,' says Addison,'was wounded after the same manner by an unknown hand in the midstof a parley" Has inter uoces, media inter talia uerba,Ecce uiro stridens alis allapsa sagitta est,Incertum qua pulsa manu." ' ^n. xii. 318.78. ' Merry men, in the language of those times, is no more than acheerful word for companions and fellow-soldiers. A passage in theeleventh book of Virgil's ^neids is very much to be admired, whereCamilla, in her last agonies, instead of weeping over the wound she hadreceived, as one might have expected from a warrior of her sex, considersonly (like the hero of whom we are now speaking) how the battleshould be continued after her death" Turn sic expirans, &c." [-^n. xi. 820].'—Addison.80. ' Earl Piercy's lamentation over his enemy is generous, beautiful,and passionate ; I must only caution the reader not to let the simplicityof the style, which one may well pardon in so old a poet, prejudice himagainst the greatness of the thought. That beautiful line, taking thedead man by the hand, will put the reader in mind of iEneas's behaviourtowards Lausus, whom he himself had slain as he came tohis aged father*' At uero ut uultum uidit morientis, et ora,Ora modis Anchisiades pallentia miris :Ingemuit miserans grauiter, dextramque tetendit. "the rescue of\_Mn. X. 821.].'—Addison.83. Mongo'ruberry ; in the later version, Mountgomerye.84. A trusti tre, of trusty wood. The. second a in this line probablymeans of; cf. note to 1. 51, and see 1. 92.89. Athe tother, on the other ; a is a short form both oion and of ; thusalive is for on lyue, on or in life, whilst adown is for of dune, off a hill.