'My mother was afrayde there had ben theves in her house, and she kryed out _haroll alarome_ (F. elle sescria _harol alarme_)'; Palsgrave, s. v. _crye_, p. 501. See _Haro_ in Littré, _hara_ in Schade. Cf. l. 3825; and the note in Dyce's Skelton, ii. 274. 3291. I. e. St. Thomas of Canterbury. 3299. 'A clerk would have employed his time ill.' 3308. Defective in the first foot; scan: Crist | es, &c. Tyrwhitt inserts _Of_ before _Cristes_, and coolly observes, in his Notes, that it is 'added from conjecture only.' He might have said, that it makes bad grammar. And it is from such manipulated lines as this that the public forms its judgement of Chaucer's verse! Is it _nothing_ that all the authorities begin the line alike? 3316. _shode_, not 'hair,' as in Tyrwhitt, but 'parting of the hair.' 3318. 'It was the fashion to wear shoes with the upper leather cut into a variety of beautiful designs, resembling the tracery of window-heads, through which the bright colour of the green, blue, or scarlet stocking beneath was shewn to great advantage';--Rock, Church of our Fathers, ii. 239, with illustrations at p. 240. _Poules windowes_, windows like those in St. Paul's Cathedral; hence, designs resembling them. Wright conjectures that there may even be a reference to the rose-window of old St. Paul's; and he says that examples of such shoes still exist, in the museum of Mr. C. Roach Smith. Good illustrations of these beautifully cut shoes are given in Fairholt's Costume, pp. 64, 65, who also notes that 'in Dugdale's view of old St. Paul's ... the rose-window in the transept is strictly analogous in design.' The Latin name for such shoes was _calcei fenestrati_, which see in Ducange. Rock also quotes the phrase _corium fenestratum_ from Pope Innocent III. Observe the mention of his scarlet hose in the next line. Cf. note to Rom. of the Rose, 843, in vol. i. p. 423.