3358. _shot-windowe._ Brockett's Northern Glossary gives: '_Shot-window_, a projecting window, common in old houses'; but this may have been copied from Horne Tooke, who seems to have guessed at, and misunderstood, the passage, below, in Gawain Douglas. In the new edition of Jamieson, Mr. Donaldson defines _Schot_ as 'a window set on hinges and opening like a shutter,' and explains that, 'in the West of Scotland, a projecting window is called an _out-shot window_, whereas a _shot-window_ or _shot_ is one that can be opened or shut like [104] a door or shutter by turning on its hinges.' It is material to the story that the window here mentioned should be readily opened and shut. The passage in G. Douglas's tr. of Virgil, prol. to bk. vii, evidently refers to a window of this character, as the poet first says:-- 'Ane _schot-wyndo_ vnschet a lytill on char,' i. e. I unshut the shot-window, and left it a little ajar; and he goes on to say that the weather was so cold that he soon shut it again-- 'The _schot_ I clossit, and drew inwart in hy.' See also ll. 3695, 6 below. In the next line, _upon_ merely means 'in' or 'formed in.' It is curious that, in Bell's Chaucer, a quotation is given from the Ballad of _Clerk Saunders_ (Border Minstrelsy, vol. ii.) to shew that _shot-window_ cannot mean '_shut_ window.' But it does not prove that it cannot mean 'hinge-shutting window,' as I have shewn the right sense to be. 'Then she has ta'en a crystal wand, And she has stroken her troth thereon; She has given it him out at the _shot-window_, With mony a sad sigh and heavy groan.' 3361. Tyrwhitt absurdly says that ll. 3361, 3362 should be broken into four short verses, and that _ladý_ (sic) rimes with _be_! In Bell's edition, they are printed in small type! They are just ordinary lines; and _be_ (pronounced nearly as modern _bay_) certainly never rimed with _lády_--nor yet with _la-dý_--in Chaucer's time, when the final _y_ was sounded like the modern _ee_ in _meet_, and would rather have rimed with a word like _my_. It is a mere whim. 3375. _menes_, intermediate people, go-betweens; see _Mene_, sb., in Gloss. to P. Plowman, with numerous references. _Brocage_ is the employment of a 'broker' or agent, and so means much the same. See _Brokage_ in New E. Dict., and _Brocage_ in Gloss. to P. Plowman. 3377. _brokkinge_, with quick regular interruptions, quavering, in a 'broken' manner. See _Brock_ in New E. Dict. 3379. _wafres_, wafers. 'They (F. _gaufres_) are usually sold at fairs, and are made of a kind of batter poured into an iron instrument, which shuts up like a pair of snuffers. It is then thrust into the fire, and when it is with-drawn and opened, the _gaufre_, or wafer, is taken out and eaten "piping hote out of the glede," as here described.'--Note in Bell's Chaucer.