book 1

. canto 10. st. 7.

[62] Froissart, 1. c. 269. M. Paris, 873.

[63]

"Les prisons firent arreter, Et en lieu seur tourner, A leurs escuyers les liverent Et à garder les commandement."

[64] Ulrich von Lichtenstein, p. 70. Ulrich was a German knight, who lived in the fourteenth century, and wrote his own memoirs. They often give us curious glimpses into ancient chivalry.

[65] Chaucer, in drawing his squire, had certainly in mind a passage from his favourite poem, "The Romaunt of the Rose:"--

"Si avoient bien a Bachalier, Que il sache de vieler, De fleuter et de danser."

I do not notice this circumstance on account of the literary coincidence, but to shew that the squire of France and the squire of England were in Chaucer's view the same character.

[66] Du Cange, Dissert. 7. au Joinville, and Menage, Dict. Et. in verb.

[67] Fairy Queen,