'The engynour than deliuerly Gert bend the gyne in full gret hy, And the stane smertly swappit out. It flaw out, quhedirand, with a _rout_.' 1940. Though the authorities read _hattes_ (Th. _hutches_), I alter this word to _hottes_ without hesitation. We do not make _hats_ with twigs or osiers. Chaucer says that some of the twigs were white, such as men use to make cages with, or panniers (i.e. baskets), or _hottes_, or _dossers_. Now Cotgrave explains F. _Panier_ by 'a Pannier, or Dosser; also, a Pedlers Pack; also, a fashion of trunke made of wicker'; and he explains F. _Hotte_ by 'a Scuttle, Dosser, Basket to carry on the back; the right _hotte_ is wide at the top, and narrow at the bottom.' Dr. Murray kindly refers me to Cursor Mundi, l. 5524:-- 'Apon þer neckes sal þai bere _Hott_ wit stan and wit morter.' He also tells me that in Caxton's Golden Legend (1483), fol. cix. col. 2, is the sentence--'And bare on hys sholdres vij. _hottis_ or baskettis fulle of erthe.' In a Glossary of North of England Words, printed as Gloss. B. 1, by the Eng. Dial. Society, I find: '_Hots_, s. pl. a sort of panniers to carry turf or slate in'; and Halliwell gives it as a Cumberland word. Dickenson's Cumberland Glossary has: '_Muck-hots_, panniers for conveying manure on horseback.' Brockett's Gloss. of Northern Words has: '_Hot_, a sort of square basket, formerly used for taking manure into fields of steep ascent; the bottom opened by two wooden pins to let out the contents.' Thus the existence of the word in English is fully proved; and the fitness of it is evident. 1943. 'Al ful of chirking was that sory place'; Kn. Tale, A 2004. 1946. Again from Ovid, Met. xii. 44-47. 1970. Read--'Of estáts and éek of regióuns.' The _e_ in _estat_ was very light; hence mod. E. _state_. 1975. _Mis_ is here an adjective, meaning 'bad' or 'wrong'; cf. 'But to correcten that is _mis_ I mente'; Can. Yeom. Tale, G 999. 1980. 'Although the timber,' &c. 1982. 'As long as it pleases Chance, who is the mother of news, just as the sea (is mother) of wells and springs.' 1997. _Paráventure_; also spelt _paraunter_, shewing how rapidly the third syllable could be slurred over. 2000. _Peter!_ by St Peter; see note to l. 1034. 2004. _Cunne ginne_, know how to begin. (_Gin_, a contrivance, is monosyllabic). 2009. I substitute the dissyllabic _swich-e_ for the monosyllabic _these_, to preserve the melody. 2011. 'To drive away thy heaviness with.' 2017. MS. F. has _frot_, which has no meaning, but may be a misspelling of _froit_, which is another form of _fruit_. As Koch says, we must read _The fruit_, remembering that Chaucer uses _fruit_ in the peculiar sense of 'upshot' or 'result.' 'And for it is no _fruit_ but los of tyme'; Squi. Ta., F 74. 'The _fruyt_ of this matere is that I telle'; Man of Lawes Ta., B 411.