3936. _market-beter_, a frequenter of markets, who swaggered about, and was apt to be quarrelsome and in the way of others. See Wyclif's Works, ed. Matthew, pp. 511, 520; and cf. F. _battre le pavé_, 'aller et venir sans but, sans occupation'; Littré. And cf. E. 'policeman's _beat_.' Cotgrave has: '_Bateur de pavez_, a pavement-beater; ... one that walks much abroad, and riots it wheresoever he walks.' The following passage from the Complaint of the Ploughman (in Wright's Polit. Poems, i. 330) makes it clear-- [118] 'At the wrastling, and at the wake, And chief chantours at the nale [_ale_]; _Market-beaters_, and medling make, Hoppen and houten [_hoot_], with heve and hale.' A synonymous term was _market-dasher_, spelt _market-daschare_ in the Prompt. Parv.; see Way's note. _atte fulle_, completely, entirely. 3941. _Simkin_, diminutive of _Simond_, which was his real name (ll. 4022, 4127). Altered to _Sim-e-kin_ by Tyrwhitt, for the scansion; but cf. ll. 3945, 3947, 4034, &c. He makes the same alteration in l. 3959, for a like reason, but we may scan it: 'But if | he wold | e be | slayn,' &c. All the MSS. have _Symkyn_, except Hl., which has _Symekyn_ here and in l. 3959. We must either make the form variable, or else treat the word _de-y-nous_ as a trisyllable. _Deynous_ was his regular epithet. 3943. This statement, that the parson of the town was her father, has caused surprise. In Bell's Chaucer, the theory is started that the priest had been a widower before he took orders, which no one can be expected to believe; it is too subtle. It is clear that she was an illegitimate daughter; this is why her father paid money to get her married to a miller, and why she thought ladies ought to spare her (and not avoid her), because it was an honour to have a priest for a father, and because she had learnt so much good-breeding in a nunnery. The case is only too clear; cf. note to l. 3963. 3953. _tipet_, not here a cape, but the long pendant from the hood at one time fashionable, which Simkin wound round his head, in order to get it out of the way. See _Tippett_ in Fairholt's Costume in England; Glossary. Cf. notes to A. 233, 682.