To poverte sholde drawe.

[7128]. Matth. xvii, 20.

[7131]. Psal. xxxiii, 11.

[7141]. Psal. xlii, 1.

[7191]. James ii, 10.

[7194]. over-skipperis. Those who skipped over words in reading or chanting the service of the church. The following distich points out the classes of defaulters in this respect:—

Ecclesiæ tres sunt qui servitium maie fallunt;

Momylers, for-scyppers, ovre-lepers, non bene psallunt.

Reliq. Antiq. p. 90. Poems of Walter Mapes, p. 148.

A still more numerous list of such offenders is given in the following lines from MS. Lansdowne, 762, fol. 101, vo:—