and Mr Skeat says,--"This is clearly the right reading, of which _galowes_ is an unmeaning corruption. The poet is speaking of the _dirty_ state of a bad and ill-behaved servant. He is as dirty as a man come out of St Malo's prison; a sunny bush would cause him to go and free himself from minute attendants. A 'sunny bush' probably means no more than a warm nook, inviting one to rest, or to such quiet pursuits as the one indicated. That this is really the reading is shown by the next stanza, wherein the poet apologizes for having spoken too bluntly; he ought to have spoken of such a chase by saying that he goes _a-hawking_ or _a-hunting_. Such was the right euphemism required by 'norture.'" If this is the meaning, we may compare with it the old poet's reproof to the proud man: Man, of Þi schuldres and of Þi side Þou mi3*te hunti luse and flee: of such a park i ne hold no pride; Þe dere nis nau3*te Þat Þou mighte sle. _Early English Poems_, ed. F.J.F., 1862, p. 1, l. 5. and remember that one of the blessings of the early Paradisaical _Land of Cokaygne_ is: Nis Þer flei, fle, no lowse, In cloÞ, in toune, bed, no house. _Ib._, p. 157, l. 37-8. We may also compare the following extract about Homer's death from "Pleasant and Delightfull Dialogues in Spanish and English: Profitable to the Learner, and not vnpleasant to any other Reader. By _John Minsheu_, Professor of Languages in London. 1623," p. 47. "F ... a foole with his foolishnesse framed in his owne imagination may giue to a hundred wise men matter to picke out. "I, So it hapned to the Poet Homer, that as he was with age blinde, and went walking by the sea shoare, & heard certaine Fishermen talking, that at that time were a _lowsing_ themselues, and as he asked them, what fish they caught, they vnderstanding that he had meant their lice, they answered, Those that we [1]haue, we seeke for, and those that we [2]haue not wee finde, but as the good Homer could not see what they did, and for this cause could not vnderstand the riddle, it did so grieue his vnderstanding to obtaine the secret of this matter, which was a sufficient griefe to cause his death." [Footnote 1: i. Haue in their clothes. i. lice.] [Footnote 2: i. Haue not in hand.] But the subject is not a very pleasant one for discussion, though the occupation alluded to in the Oriel Text must have been one of the pastimes of many people in Early England.