8. or nyght, i.e. ere night. Altered by I. R. to out-right.
120. 4. tame] lame (!); an ominous mistake, for which the compositor should have the credit.
121. 4. We may feel sure that this sayinge was originally in verse. Perhaps it ran thus:
“He that hath sheep, and swyne, and hyue,
Slepe he, wake he, he maye thryue.”
Or we might write been (Chaucer’s plural of bee), riming with theen, the usual M. E. word for ‘thrive.’
9. Hogges. As to the exact sense of this word, see the note on it in the ‘Corrections and Additions’ to the larger edition of my Etymological Dictionary.