Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

368 NOTES.;'All wordly worship defie and fleeFor who willeth highnes, foule shal fall.'Ploughman's Complaint, Political Poems, i. 306.550. Cbapolories, scapulars. The writer cleverly substitutes the scapularsof the friars for the phylacteries of the Pharisees. The scapular (Fr.scapulaire, Ital. scapulare) was socalled because thrown over the shoulders.Compare the words of Jack Upland, ' What betokeneth your greathood, your scaplerie, your knotted girdle, and your wdde cope ? '—PoliticalPoems, ii. 19. The word has been oddly misunderstood ; Richardsonthought it meant a cbapelry, and inserted this line in his dictionary under'Chapel.' But the spellings scaplory and scapelary are both given in thePromptorium Parvulorum, and the alteration into chapolory is less remarkablethan the spelling of chaff in 1. 663, viz. schaf.559. See note to 1. 486.562. 'In the bodili chirche ben had and vsid signes of greet curiosite,preciosite, and cost, and in greet multitude and dyuersite, as bellis,baners, and suche othere.'— Pecock's Repressor, ed. Babington, ii. 562.564. So in Piers Plowman, ' For leccherye in likyng is lyme-yerde ofhelle;' ed. Skeat, B. ix. 179; or ed. Wright, p. 170.744. Now must each cobbler ' set his son to school.'748. Bycbop, bishop. The alliteration requires this word, but the oldprinted text has abbot. Such an alteration must have been made by theprinter 0/ set ptirpose. CompareFor to lords they woll be liche.'An harlots sonne not worth an hawe !Ploughman's Complaint, Political Poems, i. 312.750. CompareLords also mote to them loute,' &'c.'Ploughman's Complaint, Political Poems, i. 308.758. Faytoures, deceivers. Mr. Wright's edition ]\2iS forytoures, whichis a misprint.761. ' Noone could sit down to meat, high or low, but he must ask afriar or two, who when they came would play the host to themselves,and carry away bread and meat besides,' — Quoted in Massingberd, Eng.Ref. p. no.763. Randes, strips, slices. The old text has bandes. This improvesthe alliteration, but it does not appear that there is any such word. Seethe Glossary'.764. Compare'With chaunge of many manner meates,\\ ith song and solas sitting long,' &c.Ploughman's Complaint, Political Poems, i. 307.