v. 856. prouoke] i. e. incite.
v. 857. Gyll and Jacke at Noke] See note on v. 323. p. 283.
v. 861. In open tyme] i. e. In the time when no fasts are imposed.
v. 864. an olde sayd sawe] “Oulde sayd sawe prouerbe.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. li. (Table of Subst.).
Page 344. v. 866. Some walke aboute in melottes] “Circuierunt in melotis.” Vulgate,—Heb. xi. 37. “Melotes,” as Mr. Albert Way observes to me, “is explained in the Catholicon to be a garment used by the monks during laborious occupation, made of the skin of the badger, and reaching from the neck to the loins,” and according to other early dictionaries, it was made of the hair or skin of other animals. So the original Greek word, μηλωτή, which properly means pellis ovina, signifies also pellis quævis.
v. 867. heery] i. e. hairy.
v. 868. ne] i. e. nor.
v. 869. in remotes] i. e. in retired places.
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