'Apon þer neckes sal þai bere
Hott wit stan and wit morter.'
He also tells me that in Caxton's Golden Legend (1483), fol. cix. col. 2, is the sentence—'And bare on hys sholdres vij. hottis or baskettis fulle of erthe.' In a Glossary of North of England Words, printed as Gloss. B. 1, by the Eng. Dial. Society, I find: 'Hots, s. pl. a sort of panniers to carry turf or slate in'; and Halliwell gives it as a Cumberland word. Dickenson's Cumberland Glossary has: 'Muck-hots, panniers for conveying manure on horseback.' Brockett's Gloss. of Northern Words has: 'Hot, a sort of square basket, formerly used for taking manure into fields of steep ascent; the bottom opened by two wooden pins to let out the contents.' Thus the existence of the word in English is fully proved; and the fitness of it is evident.
[1943]. 'Al ful of chirking was that sory place'; Kn. Tale, A 2004.
[1946]. Again from Ovid, Met. xii. 44-47.
[1970]. Read—'Of estáts and éek of regióuns.' The e in estat was very light; hence mod. E. state.
[1975]. Mis is here an adjective, meaning 'bad' or 'wrong'; cf. 'But to correcten that is mis I mente'; Can. Yeom. Tale, G 999.
[1980]. 'Although the timber,' &c.
[1982]. 'As long as it pleases Chance, who is the mother of news, just as the sea (is mother) of wells and springs.'
[1997]. Paráventure; also spelt paraunter, shewing how rapidly the third syllable could be slurred over.