3333. _giterne_, a kind of guitar. 'The gittern and the kit the wand'ring fiddlers like'; Drayton, Polyolbion, song 4. See note to P. Pl. C. xvi. 208; Prompt. Parv. p. 196. 3337. _squaymous_, squeamish, particular. Tyrwhitt says--'I know not how to make this sense agree with what follows' (l. 3807). But it is easy to understand that he was, ordinarily, squeamish, retentive; exceptionally, far otherwise. In the Knight de la Tour, cap. cxiv, p. 155, there is a story of a lady who waited on her old husband, and nursed him under most trying conditions; 'and unnethe there might [103] haue be founde a woman but atte sum tyme she wolde haue lothed her, or ellys to haue be right _scoymous_ ta haue do the seruice as thes good lady serued her husbonde contynuelly.' In a version of the Te Deum, composed about 1400, we read--'Thou were not _skoymus_ of the maidens wombe'; Maskell, Monumenta Ritualia, ii. 14[24]. Cf. '_squaymose_, verecundus,' Catholicon; '_skeymowse_, or _sweymows_ or _queymows_, abhominativus'; Prompt. Parv. Spelt _squmous_ (badly), Court of Love, l. 332; and _sqymouse_ in Morris's reprint of it. See _Desdaigneux_ in Cotgrave. 'To be _squamish_, or nice, _delicias facere_'; Baret's Alvearie. 'They that be subiect to Saturne ... be not _skoymous_ of foule and stinking clothing'; Batman on Bartholomè, lib. 8. c. 23. In Weber's Metrical Romances, i. 359, we find: 'Than was the leuedi of the hous A proude dame and an envieous, Hokerfulliche missegging, _Squeymous_ and eke scorning.' Lay le Freine, ll. 59-62. These examples quite establish the sense. The derivation is from the rare A. F. _escoymous_, which occurs in P. Meyer's ed. of Nicole Bozon (Soc. des Anc. Textes Français), p. 158:--'si il poy mange e beyt poy, lors est gageous ou _escoymous_,' if he eats and drinks little, then is he delicate or nice. Robert of Brunne has the spelling _esquaymous_; Handlyng Synne, l. 7249. 3338. _dangerous_, sparing; see the Glossary. 3340. Cutts (Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages, p. 219) seems to think that the clerk went _about the parish_ with his censer, as he sometimes certainly went about with holy water. Warton, on the other hand, says that 'on holidays it was his business to carry the censer _about the church_, and he takes this opportunity of casting unlawful glances on the handsomest ladies of the parish.' Warton is clearly right here, for there is an allusion to the ladies coming forward with the usual offering (l. 3350); cf. note to A. 450. And see Persones Tale, l. 407. 3354. _for paramours_, for love's sake: a redundant expression, since _par_ means 'for.' Cf. n. to l. 1155, at p. 67.