Note 997 — ACT II. SCENE I.

burgh] Or burre is “a broad ring of iron behind the handle [of a tilting lance], which burre is brought into the sufflue or rest, when the tilter is ready to run against his enimy, or prepareth himself to combate or encounter his adverse party.” R. Holme’s Acad. of Armoury, cited by Nares, Gloss. in v.