3895. _chimbe._ 'The prominency of the staves beyond the head of the barrel. The imagery is very exact and beautiful'; Tyrwhitt. '_Chime_ (pronounced _choim_), sb. a stave of a cask, barrel, &c.'; Leicestershire Glossary (E. D. S.) Urry gives '_Chimbe_, the Rim of a Cooper's Vessel on the outside of the Head. The ends of the Staves from the Grooves outward are called the _Chimes_.' Hexham's Du. Dict. has: '_Kimen_, _Kimmen_, the Brimmes of a tubb or a barrill.' Sewel's Du. Dict. has: '_Kim_, the brim of a barrel.' The Bremen _Kimm_ signifies not only the rim of a barrel, but the edge of the horizon; cf. Dan. _Kiming_, _Kimming_, the horizon. See further in New E. Dict. [115] 3901-2. _what amounteth_, to what amounts. _What shul_, why must. 3904. Tyrwhitt refers us to _Ex sutore medicus_, Phædrus, lib. i. fab. 14; and to _ex sutore nauclerus_, alluded to by Pynson the printer, at the end of his edition of Littleton's Tenures, 1525 (Ames, p. 488). 3906. _Depeford_ (lit. deep ford), Deptford; just beyond which is _Grenewich_, Greenwich. Thus the pilgrims had not advanced very far, considering that the Knight and Miller had both told a tale. They had made an early start, and it was now 'half-way prime.' 'Deptford,' says Dr. Furnivall, 'is 3 miles down the road [or a little more, it depends upon whence we reckon]; and, as only the Reeve's Tale and the incomplete Cook's Tale follow in Group A, we must suppose that Chaucer meant to insert here [at the end of Group A] the Tales of some, at least, of the Five City-Mechanics and the Ploughman ... in order to bring his party to their first night's resting-place, Dartford, 15 miles from London'; Temp. Preface, p. 19. 'The deep ford,' I may remark, must have been the one through the Ravensbourn. Deptford and Greenwich (where, probably, Chaucer was then residing) lay off the Old Kent Road, on the left; hence the host points them out.