3668. _the grange_, lit. granary; but the term was applied to a farm-house and granary on an estate belonging to a feudal manor or (as here) to a religious house. As the estate often lay at some distance from the abbey, it might be necessary for the carpenter, who went to cut down trees, to stay at the grange for the night. Cf. note to P. Pl. C. xx. 71; and Prompt. Parv. (s. v. _grawnge_). 3675. _at cockkes crowe_; cf. l. 3687. The expression in l. 3674 must refer to Monday: the 'cock-crow' refers to Tuesday morning, when it was still pitch-dark (l. 3731). The time denoted by the 'first cock-crow' is very vague; see the Chapter on Cock-crowing in Brand's Pop. Antiquities. The 'second cock-crow' seems to be about 3 A.M., as in Romeo and Juliet, iv. 4. 4; and the 'first cock-crow,' shortly after midnight, as in K. Lear, iii. 4. 121, 1 Hen. IV. ii. 1. 20. An early mention of the first cock occurs in Ypomedon, 783, in Weber's Met. Romances, ii. 309:--'And at the fryst cokke roos he.' The clearest [109] statement is in Tusser's Husbandrie, sect. 74 (E. D. S. p. 165), where he says that cocks crow 'At midnight, at three, and an hower ere day,' which he afterwards explains by 'past five.' 3682. On 'itching omens,' see Miss Burne's _Shropshire Folk-Lore_, p. 269. 'If your right hand itches, you will receive money; ... if your nose itches, you will be kissed, cursed, or vexed.' 3684. Cf. 'If [in a dream] you see many loaves, it portends joy'; A. S. Leechdoms, iii. 215. 3689. _at point-devys_, with all exactness, precisely, very neatly; cf. As You Like It, iii. 2. 401. O. F. _devis_, 'ordre, beauté; _a devis_, _par devis_, en bel ordre, d'une manière bien ordonnée, à gré, à souhait'; Godefroy. See F. 560; Rom. of the Rose, 1215. 3690. _greyn_, evidently some sweet or aromatic seed or spice; apparently cardamoms, otherwise called _grains of Paradise_ (New E. Dict.) '_Greynys_, spyce, _Granum Paradisi_'; Prompt. Parv.; see Way's note. Cf. Rom. of the Rose, 1369, and the note (vol. i. p. 428). 3692. _trewe-love_, (probably) a leaf of herb-paris; in the efficacy of which he had some superstitious belief. _True-love_ is sometimes used as an abbreviation of _true-love knot_, as in the last stanza of the Court of Love; and such is the case here. True-love knots were of various shapes; see pictures of four such in Ogilvie's Dictionary. Some had four loops, which gave rise to the name _true-love_ as applied to herb-paris. Gerarde's Herball, 1597, p. 328, thus describes herb-paris (_Paris quadrifolia_):--At the top of the stalk 'come foorth fower leaves directly set one against another, in manner of a Burgonnion crosse or a true love knot; for which cause among the auncients it hath beene called herbe _Truelove_.' It is still called _True Love's Knot_ in Cumberland. 3700. Note the rime of _tó me_ with _cinam-ó-me_. 3708. _Iakke_, Jack, here an epithet of a fool, like _Iankin_ (B. 1172); and see note to B. 4000. Cf. E. _zany_.