At ones fled, he felt 'hem no more;"
we may easily understand thereby that, as it were, a rebidding, an importunate insisting upon, the repetition of his sighs, ceased and were at an end; so that in the time of Edward III. a person complaining of a troublesome cough, headache, &c., might call it a reheting cough, &c.
II. MOKE.
(See the said Three Treatises, pages cxxxvii, and Notes, pages ccxx. ccxxiii-iv.)
Wyckliffe using the possessive "their moke," not the mere "a," as we would say, I would not give "a pin," "a button," &c., together with the evidence of the Irish muc, and the obsolete German Mocke, which has been defined "Sus fœminea, quæ ob fœtus alitur," hardly leaves a doubt that he means that animal, which may be traced also in the words muck, mucky, &c. The reader may judge for himself by the following passage:—
"Crist gave his life for hise brether, and so rewled hise shepe; thei wolen not gyue her moke to help here nedy brethern, but leten here shep perishen, and taken of hem."
In allusion to their not feeding their flock, but suffering their sheep to perish, he prefers to mention an eatable object.
N. L. BENMOHEL, A.M.
2. Trinity College, Dublin.
[MR. BENMOHEL is wrong in supposing the word Beghard to signify bekehrt, conversus, and to be a name given to the Fratres Conversi of monasteries, who, by the way, were not "secular begging monks," nor necessarily monks at all. Any person, by a donation to a convent, could be enrolled amongst its fratres or sorores, entitled to the prayers of the monks, and to a share of their superabundant merits; and, being clothed at his death in the habit of the order, was a frater conversus. Another class of conversi were lay monks (not necessarily begging monks), who attended on the other monks, and performed certain lay duties in monasteries. MR. BENMOHEL will see some account of them in Dr. Todd's Introduction to the Book of Obits and Martyrol. of Christ's Church Cathedral, Dublin, p. xxvii.