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† bycorne Obs.
1. An early spelling of bicorne.
2. Given by Lydgate as the proper name of a fabulous beast represented in an old satire as feeding on patient husbands, and being always fat from the abundance of the diet, whilst his spouse chicheface or Chichevache (q.v.) fed upon patient wives and was always lean.[The French form of the name (which does not appear before the 15th c.) was Bigorne, which does not appear to be the same as bicorne ‘two horned’; the oldest Fr. version of the poem has a portrait of the creature, which has no horns.] c1430Lydg. Bycorne & Chichevache, Min. Poems (1840) 130 Of Bycornoys I am bycorne fful fatte and rounde here as I stonde And in mariage bounde and sworne To Chi[che]vache as hir husbonde. Ibid. 131 For we, for oure humylite Of Bycorne shal devoured be. |