3223. _eight-e-ten-e_ has four syllables; cf. B. 5. Tyrwhitt read it as of _two_ syllables, and inserted _I gesse_ after _she was_. He duly notes that the words _I gesse_ are 'not in the MSS.' 3226. 'And considered himself to be like.' Tyrwhitt has _belike_, which he probably took to be an adverb; but this is a gross anachronism. The adv. _belike_ is unknown earlier than the year 1533. 3227. _Catoun_, Dionysius Cato; see note to G. 688. But Tyrwhitt notes, that 'the maxim here alluded to is not properly one of Cato's; but I find it (he says) in a kind of Supplement to the Moral Distichs entitled _Facetus_, int. Auctores octo morales, Lugd. 1538, cap. iii. "Duc tibi prole parem sponsam moresque venustam, Si cum pace velis vitam deducere justam."' He refers to the catalogue of MSS. in Trin. Coll. Dublin, No. 275 (under _Urbanus_, another name for _Facetus_); and to Bale, Cent. iii. 17, and Fabricius, Bib. Med. Aetatis. 3230. Note _is_, in the singular. 'Crabbed age and youth cannot live together';--_Passionate Pilgrim_. 3235. _ceynt_, girdle; _barred_, adorned with cross stripes. Warton could not understand the word; but a _bar_ is a transverse stripe on a girdle or belt, as in A. 329, which see. 3236-7. _barm-clooth_, lap-cloth, i. e. an apron 'over her loins.' _gore_, a triangular slip, used as an insertion to widen a garment in any particular place. The apron spread out towards the bottom, owing rather, it appears, to inserted 'gores' below than to pleats above. Or the pleats may be called gores here, from their triangular shape. [99] Cf. A. S. _g[=a]ra_, an angular projection of land, as in Kensington _Gore_. '_Gheroni_, the _gores_ or gussets of a smocke or shirt'; Florio's Ital. Dict. See note to B. 1979, and the note to l. 3321 below. 3238. _brouded_, embroidered; cf. B. 3659, Leg. Good Women, 227. _Of_ in l. 3240 means 'with.' 3241. _voluper_, lit. 'enveloper' or 'wrapper'; hence, kerchief, or cap. In l. 4303, it means a night-cap. In Wright's Vocabularies, it translates Lat. _calamandrum_ (568, 28), _inuolutarium_ (590, 28), and _mafora_ (594, 19). In the Prompt. Parv. we find: '_volypere_, kerche, _teristrum_'; and in the Catholicon, '_volyper_, caliend[r]um.' In Baret's Alvearie, h. 596, we find: 'A woman's cap, hood, or bonet, _Calyptra_, _Caliendrum_.' The tapes of this cap were 'of the same suit' as the embroidery of her collar, i. e. were of black silk. 3245. _smale y-pulled_, i. e. partly plucked out, to make them narrow, even, and well-marked. 3247. Tyrwhitt at first had '_for_ to see,' but corrected it to '_on_ to see,' i. e. to look upon. Cf. Leg. Good Women, 2425.