Or for to hanylon, as dooth the foxe wyth his gyle,
Or for to crosse, as the roo doth otherwhyle.
hanselle (A.S.) [96], gift, reward, bribe. It is used in the alliterative poem on the Deposition of Richard II, p. [30]:—
Some parled as perte
As provyd well after,
And clappid more for the coyne
That the kyng owed hem,
Thanne ffor comfforte of the comyne
That her cost paied,
And were behote hansell,