This the
burges Sir John does well, but is himself terrified at the corpse
getting up: all three run away from one another: the knight falls on a
stake, and into a snare set for bucks, and breaks his fore top in
falling from the tree; the merchant gets tossed by a bull; the parson
breaks his head and jumps into a bramble bush; and the prioress gets rid
of them all, but not before she has made the "burges" or "marchaunt" pay
her twenty marks not to tell his wife and the country generally of his
tricks.--_Minor Poems_, p. 107-117, ed. 1840.
GLOSSARY.
And, 89, 292, if.
Bayne, 348, ready.
Blynne, 4, cease, stop; AS. _blinnan_.
Blyue, 44, 110, 118, speedily.
Bonde, 226, a bund-le; Du. _bondt_, a bavin, a bush of thornes.
Brayne, 342, scull.
Broke, 165, enjoy. AS. _br?can_, Germ. _brauchen_. H. Coleridge.
Brydalle, 71, AS. _br?d-?l_, bride ale, marriage feast.
By, 197, buy.
Chaste, 176, chest, box, pit.
Dowte, 14, fear.
Dyght, 323, 379, prepare, dress.
Fare, 148, 324, going on, wish, project.
Fere, 604, company.
Flyte, 484, wrangle, quarrel; AS._ fl?t_, strife, wrangling.
Forthynketh, 51, repents, makes sorry; AS. _for?encan_, to despair.
Frayne, 409, ask; AS. _fregnan_, Goth. _fraihnan_.
Gan, 22, did.
Geue to God a gyfte, 351, I make a vow, I promise you, I'll take my
oath.
Hele, 140, salvation.
Hovyd, 624, halted, stopt.
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