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V. (A) REGINALD PECOCK. 385first quarter of the day, which is from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the equinoxes.An hour or more over prime causes half of the day to be fiear away.172. If be is here equivalent to may be, the sense is 'Take warningof this before that thou be rolled from my wheel like a ball.' Be isgenerally the subjunctive mood, and pronouns such as (bou are sometimesomitted.Vale, sink.This dream of the king's maybe compared to the dreamof King Arthur, described in Malory's Morte Darthur (see p. 77, 1. 20),and in the alliterative Morte Arthure, ed. Peny, 11. 3251-3393.173. Gos/g, spirit. Artow drest, art thon treated.Walkifig, waking. It may be remarked that this stanza is evidentlyimitated from Chaucer. Compare'Owery ghost, that errest to and fro,Why nilt thou flien out of the wofullestBody, that ever might on grounde go?O soule, lurking in this wofull neste,Fly forth out mine herte, and let it breste.'Troilus and Creseide (ed. Tyrwhitt), bk. iv. 1. 302.V. REGINALD PECOCK.(A) Many things are alloivable that are not prescribed in Scripture.This first extract will be found at p. 117 of Mr. Babington's firstvolume. It has been carefully collated with the MS. itself, but I havenot deemed it necessary to denote by italics the letters signified by marksof abbreviation. These marks are throughout simple, and not to bemistaken ; but, as almost every n is denoted by a stroke over the precedings^owel, the pages would have been inconveniently crowded with italic 71 s.The language of the ' Repressor ' is so clear as to require but littleexplanation. The spelling is especially worth notice, as the reader whowill observe it attentively may perhaps be led to think it quite as good,in many cases, as the spelling in present use, when allowance has beenmade for the changes in the language.Some remarks upon Pecock will be found in Milman's Annals of St.Paul's, pp. 92-97, and in Massingberd*s Hist, of the Reformation, p. 213.I. 'pat ])ou. This is addressed to a Wyclifite. The Wyclifites orLollards adopted the opinion that no ordinance is to be esteemed a law ofGod, which is not grounded in Scripture ; from which they proceeded toargue against the use of images, going on pilgrimages, and the like.Pecock, on the other hand, maintains that many excellent practices,C C