“Powle hatchettis, that prate wyll at euery ale pole.”
v. 613. vol. i. 386.
—— bleryd thyne I] (I—eye) i. e. imposed on, put a cheat on you.
Qd.] i. e. Quod, quoth.
v. 4. pastaunce] i. e. pastime.
v. 7. corage] i. e. heart.
Page 23. v. 8. fauorable] i. e. well-favoured, beautiful.
v. 11. Menolope] In a “ballade” entitled The IX. Ladies Woorthie, printed among Chaucer’s Workes, the writer, after celebrating the eighth, “Quene Semiramys,” concludes thus;
“Also the ladie Menalip thy sister deere,