3261. _bragot_, a sweet drink, made of ale and honey fermented together; afterwards, the honey was replaced by sugar and spice. See _Bragget_ in New E. Dict. The full receipt for 'Braket' is given in Strutt, Manners and Customs, iii. 74; it contained 4 gallons of ale to a pint of honey. In 1783, it was made of ale, sugar, and spices, and drunk at Easter; Brand, Pop. Antiq. i. 112. Spelt _bragot_, Palladius on Husbandry, p. 90, l. 812; &c. Of British origin; Welsh _bragawd_; cf. O. Irish _brac_, later _braich_, malt. See also the note on _Bragott_ in the Catholicon, ed. Herrtage. 3262. Cf. 'An appyll-hurde, _pomarium_'; Catholicon Anglicum. 3263-4. These two lines are cited by Dryden with approval, in the Preface to his Fables, as being 'not much behind our present English.' We are amazed to find that Dryden condemns Chaucer's lines as unequal; and coolly remarks that 'equality of numbers ... was either not known, or not always practised in Chaucer's age.' The black-letter editions which Dryden read were, in fact, full of misspelt words; but even in them, he might have found plenty of good lines, if he had not been so prejudiced and (to say the truth) conceited. 3268. _prymerole_, primrose; as in Gower, C. A. iii. 130. _pigges-nye_, pig's eye, a term of endearment; pig's eyes being (as Tyrwhitt notes) remarkably small. Cf. 'Waked with a wench, pretty peat, pretty love, and my sweet pretty _pigsnie_'; Peele, Old Wives' Tale, ed. Dyce (1883), p. 455, col. 1. And see Skelton, ed. Dyce, i. 28, ii. 97, 104. In fact, it is common. Brand, quoting Douce (Illust. of Shak. ii. 151), says that 'Shadwell not only uses the word _pigsney_ in this sense, but also _birdsney_ [bird's eye]; see his Plays, i. 357, iii. 385.' See also _pigsney_ in Todd's Johnson, where one quotation has the form _pigs eie_. _An ye_ became _a nye_; hence the pl. _nyes_, and even _nynon_ (= eyne), as in Halliwell. See note to P. Plowman, C. xx. 306, where _bler-eyed_, i. e. blear-eyed, appears as _bler-nyed_ in the B-text. 3269. _leggen_, to lay. Tyrwhitt has _liggen_, to lie, which is but poor grammar. [101] 3274. _Oseneye_, Oseney, in the suburbs of Oxford, where there was an Abbey of St. Austin's Canons; cf. l. 3666. 3286. _harrow_ (Pt. _harowe_), a cry for help, a cry of distress; O. F. _haro_, _harou_, the same; see Godefroy. Cf. ll. 3825, 4307. '_Primus Demon._ Oute, haro, out, out! harkyn to this horne'--&c. Towneley Mysteries, Surtees Society, p. 307 (in the Mystery of "_Judicium_.") So in the Coventry Mysteries, we have:-- '_Omnes demones clamant._ Harrow and out! what xal we say? harrow! we crye, owt! And Alas! Alas, harrow! is þis þ_a_t day?... Alas, harrow! and owt! we crye.' (Play of _Judgment_.)