[189] Dreams. Thus Chaucer, in the opening lines of the House of Fame (called in the old editions and in the present text the Boke of Fame), says: —
"God turne us every dreme to goode!
For hyt is wonder thing, be the roode,
To my wytte, what causeth swevenes
Eyther on morwes, or on evenes."
For examples of the later use of the word, see Nares by Halliwell and Wright, art. Sweven.
[190] Boasting.
[191] Singer reads flee.
[192] Headlong.
[193] Step, from the Latin grassus or gressus.
[194] Circumlocutory.—Singer.
[195] Vide supra, p. 22.
[196] A word used by Chaucer. It signifies a person licensed to preach and beg within a certain limit. There was an order of mendicant friars.