(Chevy Chase);
but the Promptorium Parvulorum makes it equivalent to Craske (Chapter XXII)—
"Fryke, or craske, in grete helth, crassus."
It is cognate with Ger. frech, which now means impudent. Nott has already been mentioned (Chapter II). Of the Yeoman we are told—
"A not hed hadde he, with a broun visage."
(A, 109.)
Stark, cognate with starch, now usually means stiff, rather than strong—
"I feele my lymes stark and suffisaunt
To do al that a man bilongeth to."
(E, 1458.)