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366 NOTES.for alle ure he'Sene-scipe haene is ivvur'Sen'—'become base.'—Layamon, vol. ii. p. 279.for all our hea<strong>the</strong>ndom is43 i. Reufull, sorry-looking; a great improvement on <strong>the</strong> old readingrentfull.436. Compare, ' As two <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m [Minorites] were going in<strong>to</strong> a neighbouringwood, picking <strong>the</strong>ir way along <strong>the</strong> rugged path over <strong>the</strong> frozenmud and rigid snow, whilst <strong>the</strong> blood lay in <strong>the</strong> track <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir nakedfeet without <strong>the</strong>ir perceiving it,' &c.—Monumenta Franciscana. p. 632.443. ' At heighe piyme peres • lete \>e plowe s<strong>to</strong>nde.'—Piers Plo\\Tnan(ed. Skeat), B. vi. 114.445. ' If livelihood (i. e. means <strong>of</strong> living) fail <strong>the</strong>e, I will lend <strong>the</strong>e suchwealth as God hath sent ; come, dear bro<strong>the</strong>r.' Go we { = come along)was a common exclamation ; cf. ' gowe dyne, gowe,' Piers PI. B. prol.2:6.452. ' For <strong>the</strong>re I expected <strong>to</strong> have known (it).'456. ' Attendite a falsis prophetis, qui veniunt ad vos in vestimemisovium, intrinsecus autem sunt lupi rapaces.'—Matt. vii. 15 (Vulgate).459. Werwolves, lit. man-wolves, Fr. loupgarous, <strong>from</strong> <strong>the</strong> Teu<strong>to</strong>nicwer, a man, which was modified in<strong>to</strong> gar in Norman-French. For a fulldiscussion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> etymology, see Glossary <strong>to</strong> Sir F. Madden's edition <strong>of</strong>*William and <strong>the</strong> Werwulf,' reprinted in ' William <strong>of</strong> Paleme,' ed. Skeat,p. XXV. For a full discussion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> very prevalent mediaeval superstition,that men could be turned in<strong>to</strong> peculiarly ferocious wolves, see'A Book on Werwolves,' by S. Baring Gould, and Thorpe's Nor<strong>the</strong>rnM)-thology.462. Curates, parish-priests with a cure <strong>of</strong> souls. The friars were continuallyinterfering with and opposing <strong>the</strong>m.'unne<strong>the</strong> may prestes seculersGete any service, for <strong>the</strong>s frers,' &c.Political Poems, i. 267.468. Confessions, i. e. <strong>the</strong> right <strong>of</strong> hearing confessions, and being paidfor so doing.469. Sepultjires, burials. They used <strong>to</strong> get people <strong>to</strong> order in <strong>the</strong>irwills that <strong>the</strong>y should be buried in a convent-church, and <strong>the</strong>n <strong>the</strong>ywould be paid for <strong>the</strong> singuig <strong>of</strong> masses for <strong>the</strong>m.471. He lohetb, <strong>the</strong>y look for, look out for.47'^. I trow that some wicked wight wrought <strong>the</strong>se orders through'<strong>the</strong> subtlety <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> tale called Golias ; or else it was Satan,' &c. Asatire on <strong>the</strong> monkish orders, called Apocalypsis 'Goliae,' may be foundamong <strong>the</strong> poems by Walter Mapes, &c., edited by Mr. Wright for <strong>the</strong>Camden Society. The idea expressed in 1. 479 is this:— perhaps, afterall, that satire <strong>of</strong> Golias was written as an artful contrivance for bringing

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