_Cun or con thanks_, says the "Glossary to the Lancashire Dialect," is to _give thanks_; and in that sense only the words appear to be used to this day in the North of England. In Erasmus's "Praise of Folly," by Chaloner, 1549, sig. E 2: "But in the meane while ye ought to _conne me thanke_," &c., and sig. I 4: "Who natheless _conned him as greate thanke_," &c. Again, in Nash's "Pierce Pennilesse," p. 28: "It is well doone 'to practise thy wit, but (I believe) our Lord will _cun thee little_ thanke for it.'" [220] _i.e._, Glossing or commenting upon. So, in "Pierce Plowman": "_Glosed_ the Gospel as hem good liked, For covetous of copes construe it as thei wold." [221] Trump was a game played with cards, as will appear by the following passage of Dekker's "Bellman of London," 1608, sig. F: "To speak of all the slights used by _Card-players_ in al sorts of Games would but weary you that are to read, and bee but a thanklesse and unpleasing labour for me to set them downe. Omitting therefore the deceipts practised (even in the fairest & most civill companies) at Primero, Saunt, Maw, _Tromp_, and such like games, I will," &c. [See Nares, _v. Trump_.] [222] _i.e._, In secrecy. See note to the "Merry Wives of Windsor," edit. 1778, vol. i., p. 228.--_S._ [223] Our dear Lady of Boulogne is no other than the image of the Virgin Mary at Boulogne, which was formerly held in so much reverence, that it was one of those to which Pilgrimages used to be made. In Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," Prol. 1. 465, describing the "Wife of Bath," he says-- "And thries hadde sche ben at Jerusalem. Sche hadde passed many a straunge streem. At Rome sche hadde ben, and at _Boloyne_. In Galice at seynt Jame, and at Coloyne." The Virgin Mary was the patroness of the town of Boulogne in a very singular manner, it being holden immediately of her: "For when King Lewis II., after the decease of Charles of Burgundy, had taken in Boulogne, anno 1477, as new Lord of the town (thus John de Serres relateth it), he did homage without sword or spurs bareheaded, and on his knee, before the Virgin Mary, offering unto her image an heart of massie gold, weighing 2000 crowns. He added also this, that he and his successors, kings after him, should hold the county of Boulogne of the said Virgin, and do homage unto her image in the great church of the higher town dedicated to her name, paying at every change of a vassal an heart of pure gold of the same weight."--Heylin's "Survey of France," 1656, p. 193.