2785. Quoted again in G. 6, 7; see note to G. 7.
2789. Fool-large, foolishly liberal; Fr. text, 'fol larges.' Cf. 2810.
2790. Chincherye, miserliness, parsimony; from the adj. chinche, which occurs in 2793. Chinche, parsimonious, miserly, is the nasalised form of chiche; see Havelok, 1763, 2941; and see Chinch in the New E. Dictionary. To the examples there given add:—'A Chinche, tenax: Chinchery, tenacitas'; Catholicon Anglicum.
'But such an other chinche as he
Men wisten nought in all the londe.'
Gower, Conf. Amant. ii. 288.
2792. From Dionysius Cato, Distich. iv. 16:—
'Utere quaesitis opibus; fuge nomen auari;
Quo tibi diuitias, si semper pauper abundas?'
2795. From Dionysius Cato, Distich. iii. 22:—