See Prompt. Parv. p. 7, for another version of the above, the limits assigned to the several stages being different, and the seventh stage beginning at the resurrection.
[E379] "Foxe, Ape with his toieng," etc. Dr. Mavor's edition reads, "For Ape with his toieng," etc.
[E380] "The tone from the tother;" the tone = that one, the tother = that other; where the t is the sign of the neuter gender, as in tha-t, i-t; compare the Latin d in i-d, quo-d, illu-d.—In ch. 110, p. 201, we have the curious forms "thon" and "thother."
[E381] "To him and to hur," that is, to every one, or to any one. Cf. [94. 3], and
"The white lambe þat hurte was with the spere
Flemere of feendes out of hym and here."
—Chaucer, Man of Law's Tale, l. 460, Six-Text ed.
[E382] "Daieth" = dayeth, that is, appoints a day on which he promises to pay.
Gervase Markham, in the First Part of the English Husbandman, ch. 6, remarks:—"You may by these usuall observations, and the helpe of a better judgement, imploy the fruits of your labours to the best profit, and sell everything at the highest price, except you take upon you to give day and sell upon trust, which if you doe, you may then sell at what unconscionable reckoning you will." Cf.
"When drapers draw no gaines by giving day."
—Gascoigne, The Steel Glass, 1094.
[E383] "By that and by this;" that is, by anything, or by chance. Compare [stanza 6], and [chap. 67, stanza 5], p. 153.