Note 7 — BOOK II.
Reading edition
—Page 228, stanza lxxiv.
Loud neigh'd the destrier at the welcome clang.
Destrier;—This word has been objected to, but it is so familiarly used by our Anglo-Norman minstrels, as well as by the great Masters of romantic poetry, that I have ventured, though not without diffidence, to retain it. Montaigne, in his chapter on "the Warhorses called Destriers," derives the word from the Latin Dextrarius.