So ryche, I dare well say.’
72.
72.2 ‘mete,’ measured. So 73.1 ‘met’ = measured.
‘Take hym thre yerdes of every colour,
And loke well mete that it be.’
Lytell Johnn toke none other mesure
But his bowë-tree.
73.
And at every handfull that he met
He lepëd fotës three;