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From Harvard Classics
"The order of the garter therefore was devised in the time of King Edward the
Third, and (as some write) upon this occasion. The queen’s majesty then
living, being departed from his presence the next way toward her lodging, he
following soon after happened to find her garter, which slacked by chance and
so fell from her leg, unespied in the throng by such as attended upon her. His
grooms and gentlemen also passed by it, as disdaining to stoop and take up
such a trifle: but he, knowing the owner, commanded one of them to stay and
reach it up to him. “Why, and like your grace,” saith a gentleman, “it is but
some woman’s garter that hath fallen from her as she followed the queen’s
majesty.” “Whatsoever it be,” quoth the king, “take it up and give it me.” So
when he had received the garter, he said to such as stood about him: “You, my
masters, do make small account of this bule garter here,” and therewith held it
out, “but, if God lend me life for a few months, I will make the proudest of
you all to reverence the like.” And even upon this slender occasion he gave
himself to the devising of this order. Certes, I have not read of anything that
having had so simple a beginning hath grown in the end to so great honour and
estimation…. 7"
I searched, but could not find definition of "bule". Can you?
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>I searched, but could not find definition of "bule". Can you?
I think maybe it refers to a sort of honey-soy colour.
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Dear tsuwm: your detective work makes it obvious "bule" is a typo. For once, not mine.
But what about a male entering inot "widowhood" ?
"Early chroniclers always name the lady as "the Queen," but this was used as
a common reference to King Edward's cousin, Joan, the 'Fair Maid of Kent,'
who was married to the Prince of Wales during his "widowhood."
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>during his widowhood
guestimation: after he was widowed
(to widow = to make a widow or widower of [AHD4])
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1) widowerhood. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.
2000.
...The condition or period of being a widower....
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widowhood - 1. The state or condition of a widow or widower, or (contextually) the time during which one is a widow or widower; the condition of a wife bereaved of her husband, or of a husband bereaved of his wife.
1539 Act 31 Hen. VIII c. 14 §1 Vowes of Chastitye or Wydowhood, by Man or Woman made to God advisedly ought to be observed. a1652 BROME Queenes Exch. I. ii, What have I done at home, since my Wife died? No Turtle ever kept a widowhood, More strict then I have done. 1768 BOSWELL Corsica iii. 222 Signor Clemente, being in a state of widowhood. 1866 MRS. H. WOOD St. Martin's Eve vii, During Mr. St. John's widowhood.
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Dear tsuwm: To say nothing of internecine strife withi AHD4. "Widowerhood" does not come
trippingly to the tongue, particulary to me, since I am in that forlorn state.
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