[42] defiled, from Fr. rayer, to shine and give light, as the rays of the sun, and thence to streak with lines of dirt, and so to soil. The word is not common. See Nares art ray (edit. 1859), and Cotgrave art rayer (edit. 1650).
[43] Orig. reads turnyd.
[44] Orig. reads saw.
[45] smock.
[46] i.e. who saw her.
[47] An unregistered proverb, perhaps. The meaning is tolerably clear. See Tarlton's Newes Out of Purgatarie (1590). edit. Halliwell, p. 93.
[48] Whither.
[49] I am myself responsible for these few words in italic, which I have supplied from conjecture.
[50] Perhaps this story, of which we have here a fragment only, was similar to the one narrated a little farther on. See Tale 57.
[51] Thavies Inn, near St. Andrew's Church, in Holborn.