_Hoker_ is the A. S. _h[=o]cor_, scorn. _Bismare_ is properly of _two_ syllables only (A. S. _bismor_), but is here made into three; MS. Cp. has _bisemare_, and Hl. has _bissemare_, and the spelling _bisemare_ also appears much earlier, in the Ancren Riwle, p. 132, and _bisemære_ in Layamon, i. 140. Owing to a change in the accentuation, the etymology had been long forgotten. See _Bismer_ in the New E. Dict., and see the Glossary. 3966. 'It seemed to her that ladies ought to treat her with consideration,' and not look down upon her; see note to l. 3943. 3977. _The person_, the parson, i. e. her grandfather. 3980. 'And raised difficulties about her marriage.' 3990. The _Soler-halle_ has been guessed to be Clare Hall, merely because that college was of early foundation, and was called a 'hall.' But a happy find by Mr. Riley tells us better, and sets the question at rest. In the First Report of the Historical MSS. Commission, p. 84, Mr. Riley gives several extracts from the Bursar's Books of King's [120] Hall, in which the word _solarium_ repeatedly occurs, shewing that this Hall possessed numerous _solaria_, or sun-chambers, used as dwelling-rooms, apparently by the fellows. They were probably fitted with bay-windows. This leaves little doubt that _Soler-Hall_ was another name for _King's Hall_, founded in 1337 by Edward III, and now merged in Trinity College. It stood on the ground now occupied by the Great Gate, the Chapel, Bowling-green, and Master's Lodge of that celebrated college. On the testimony of Chaucer, we learn that the King's Hall, even in his time, was 'a greet collegge.' Its successor is the largest in England. In Wright's Hist. of Domestic Manners, pp. 83, 127, 128, it is explained that the early stone-built house usually had a hall on the ground-floor, and a _soler_ above. The latter, being more protected, was better lighted, and was considered a place of greater security. 'In the thirteenth century a proverbial characteristic of an avaricious and inhospitable person, was to shut his hall-door and live in the _soler_.' It was also 'considered as the room of honour for rich lodgers or guests who paid well.' Udall speaks of 'the _solares_, or loftes of my hous'; tr. of Erasmus' Apophthegmes, _Aug. Cæsar_, § 27. 3999. _made fare_, made a to-do (as we now say).