3548. _kimelin_, a large shallow tub; especially one used for brewing; see Prompt. Parv. p. 274; and _Kimnell_ in Miss Jackson's Shropshire Glossary. 3554. _pryme_, i. e. about 9 A.M. See note to F. 73. 3565. This shows that the hall was open to the roof, with cross-beams, and that the stable was attached to it, between it and the garden. 3590. _sinne_, i. e. venial sin; see I. 859, 904, 920. 3598. Evidently a common proverb. 3616. It is obvious that the first foot is defective. 3624. _His owne hand_, with his own hand. Tyrwhitt points out the same idiom in Gower, ed. Pauli, ii. 83:-- 'The craft Minerve of wolle fond And made cloth _her owne hond_.' And again, id. ii. 310:-- 'Thing which he said _his owne mouth_.' 3625. _ronges_, rungs, rounds, steps; _stalkes_, upright pieces. To [108] climb by the rungs and the stalks means to employ the hands as well as the feet. A rung was also called a _stayre_ (stair); and _stalke_ is the diminutive of _stele_, a handle, which was another name for the upright part of a ladder. In Allit. Poems, ed. Morris, C. 513, the author complains that some people cannot tell the difference between a _stele_ and a _stayre_; and, in fact, the Glossary does not point it out. In the Ancren Riwle, p. 354, we find mention of the two ladder-_stales_ that are upright to the heaven, between which _stales_ the _tinds_ (or rungs) are fastened. This makes the sense perfectly clear. 3637. _a furlong-way_, a few minutes; exactly, two minutes and a half, at the rate of three miles an hour. 3638. 'Now say a Paternoster, and keep silence.' Accordingly, the carpenter 'says his devotion.' '_Clom!_' is a word imposing silence, like 'mum!' So in the Ayenbite of Inwyt, p. 266, we find: 'Yef ye me wylleth y-here, habbeth amang you _clom_ and reste'; i. e. if you wish to hear me, keep among you silence and rest. 3645. _corfew-tyme_, probably 8 P.M. The original time for ringing the curfew-bell, as a signal for putting out fires and lights, was eight o'clock. The custom has been kept up in some places till the present day; the hour for it is sometimes 8 P.M., and sometimes 9 P.M. In olden times, mention is usually made of the former of these hours; see Brand, Pop. Antiq. ii. 220; Prompt. Parv. p. 110. People invariably went to bed very early; see l. 3633. 3655. The service of _lauds_ followed that of _nocturns_; the latter originally began at midnight, but usually somewhat later. The time indicated seems to have been just before daybreak. 'These nocturns should begin at such a time as to be ended just as morning's twilight broke, so that the next of her services, the _lauds_, or _matutinae laudes_, might come on immediately after.'--Rock, Church of our Fathers, iii. 2. 6. From l. 3731, we learn, however, that the night was still 'as dark as pitch.' Perhaps the time was between two and three o'clock, as Wright suggests.