Numerous references are given to Pierce the Ploughman's Crede, ed. Skeat (E.E.T.S.); a poem by the same author. See the Introduction.
9. tabard; a ploughman's loose frock; as in Ch. C. T., A 541.
11. saynt Thomas; i.e. his shrine at Canterbury.
30. therwith to fynd, to provide for thereby.
40. queynt, quenched; because, in the solemn form of excommunication used in the Romish church, a bell was tolled, the book of offices
for the purpose was used, and three candles were extinguished. See Nares, s.v. Bell, Book, and Candle. Cf. ll. 165, 1241.
44. Four lines are here lost, the stanza being incomplete. We might supply them thus:—
They have the loof and we the crust,
They eten more than kinde hath craved;