3124. I. e. in a loud, commanding voice, such as that of Pilate in the Mystery Plays. In the Chester Plays, Pilate is of rather a meek disposition; but in the York Plays, pp. 270, 307, 320, he is represented as boastful and tyrannical, as is evidently here intended. The expression seems to have been proverbial. Palsgrave has: 'In a pylates voyce, _a haulte voyx_'; p. 837. Udall, tr. of Erasmus' Apophthegms (repr. 1877), last page, has--'speaking out of measure loude and high, and altogether in _Pilates voice_.' 3125. _by armes_, i. e. by the arms of Christ; see note to C. 651. 3129. 'My dear brother'; a common form; cf. 3848, below, and 1136, above. 3131. _thriftily_, i. e. profitably, to a useful purpose; cf. B. 1165. 3134. _a devel wey_, in the devil's name; see Skelton, ed. Dyce, ii. 287; originally, in the way to the devil, with all ill luck. Compare-- 'Hundred, chapitle, court, and shire, Al hit goth _a devel way_' [to the bad]. Polit. Songs, ed. Wright, Camd. Soc. p. 254. See note to l. 3713 below. 3140. _Wyte it_, lay the blame for it upon. _of Southwerk_, i. e. of the Tabard inn. 3143. 'Made a fool of the wright,' i. e. of the carpenter; cf. A. 586, 614; also A. 3911, and the note. 3145. The Reeve interferes, because he was a carpenter himself (A. 614). 'Let alone your ignorant drunken ribaldry.' 3152. A reference to a proverbial expression which is given in Rob. of Brunne's Handlyng Synne, 1892:-- 'Men sey, ther a man ys gelous, That "ther ys a kokewolde at hous."' [96] Compare also Le Roman de la Rose, 9167-9171, which expresses a similar opinion. 3155-6. Tyrwhitt omits these two lines in his text, but admits, in his Notes, that they should have been inserted. The former of the two lines is repeated from l. 277 of the original (but rejected) Prologue to the Legend of Good Women. _but-if thou madde_, unless thou art going mad. 3161. _oon_, one, i. e. a cuckold; or, possibly, an ox (l. 3159). As an ox was a 'horned' animal, it comes to the same thing, according to the miserable jest so common in our dramatists. 3165. _goddes foyson_, sufficient abundance, i. e. all he wants, all the affection he expects. _there_, in his wife. 3166. A defective line; read--Of | the rém' | nant, &c. THE MILLERES TALE. On the Miller's Tale, see _Anglia_, i. 38, ii. 135, vii (appendix), 81; and see the remarks in vol. iii. p. 395.