'Coppe and claper he bare ...
As he a mesel [leper] were.'—Sir Tristrem, 3173.
'Than beg her bread with dish and clap' (referring to Criseyde).
Turbervile's Poems: The Lover in utter dispaire.
See further under Clapper in the New Eng. Dict.
lazarous is formed as an adj. in -ous from the sb. lazar, a leper; see l. 531.
350. wa, woful; 'God knows if she was woful enough.'
382. The accent on the second syllable of hospital was not uncommon; hence its frequent contraction to spittal or spittel-house; for which see l. 391 below.
386. Read bevar or bever (Th. has beuer); the reading bawar in E. gives no sense. I see no connection with Lowl. Sc. bevar, 'one who is worn out with age,' according to Jamieson, who merely guesses at the sense, as being perhaps allied to bavard, which he also explains as 'worn out'; although, if from the F. bavard, it rather means talkative, babbling, or idle. I believe that bevar hat simply means 'beaver hat,' formerly used by women as well as by men. Even Dickens alludes to 'farmer's wives in beaver bonnets,' in Martin Chuzzlewit, ch. 5. No doubt a beaver hat was, when new, an expensive luxury, as worn by Chaucer's 'Merchant' (Prol. l. 272); but they wore well and long, and were doubtless gladly used by beggars when cast off by their original owners.