1595. yvel thedom, ill success. Cf. 'Now, sere, evyl thedom com to thi snoute'; Coventry Mysteries, p. 139. This is printed by Halliwell in the form—'Now, sere evyl Thedom, com to thi snoute,' i. e. 'now, sir Ill Success, come to thy snout'; but how a man can come to his own nose, we are not told.
1599. bele chere, fair entertainment, hospitality. Bele = mod. F. belle.
1606. 'Score it upon my tally,' make a note of it. See A. 570, and note to P. Plowman, C. v. 61.
1613. to wedde, as a pledge (common). Cf. A. 1218.
1621. large, liberal; hence E. largesse, liberality.
The Prioress's Prologue.
1625. corpus dominus; of course for corpus domini, the Lord's body. But it is unnecessary to correct the Host's Latin.
1626. 'Now long mayest thou sail along the coast!'
1627. marineer, Fr. marinier; we now use the ending -er; but modern words of French origin shew their lateness by the accent on the last syllable, as engineer.—M. The Fr. pionnier is pioner in Shakespeare, but is now pioneer.
1628. 'God give this monk a thousand cart-loads of bad years!'