v. 1188. the Austen fryers] In Broad-street Ward: see Stow’s Survey, B. ii. 114, ed. 1720.
Page 357. v. 1190. Saynt Thomas of Akers] Concerning the “Hospital intituled of S. Thomas of Acon or Acars [Acre in the Holy Land], near to the great Conduit in Cheape,” see Stow’s Survey, B. iii. 37. ed. 1720, and Maitland’s Hist. of London, ii. 886. ed. 1756.
v. 1191. carpe vs] Is explained by the various reading of the MS.,—“clacke of us.”
—— crakers] i. e., as the context shews, (not—vaunters, but) noisy talkers.
v. 1193. reason or skyll] See note, p. 238. v. 106.
v. 1196. at a pronge] See note, p. 243. v. 506.
v. 1199. fonge] i. e. take, get.
v. 1201. the ryght of a rambes horne] An expression which our author has again in Speke, Parrot, v. 498. vol. ii. 24. So in a metrical fragment, temp. Edward ii.;
“As ryt as ramis orn.”