4140. _chalons_, blankets. The same word as mod. E. _shalloon_, 'a slight woollen stuff'; Ogilvie's Dict. 'The blanket was sometimes made of a texture originally imported from Chalons in France, but afterwards extensively manufactured in England by the Chaloners'; Our Eng. Home, p. 108. 'Qwyltes ne _chalouns_'; Eng. Gilds, ed. Toulmin Smith, p. 350. 4152. _quakke_, asthma, or difficulty of breathing that causes a croaking noise. Halliwell gives: '_Quack_, to be noisy, _West_. The term is applied to any croaking noise.' Also: '_Quackle_, to choke, or suffocate, _East_.' _Pose_, a cold in the head; A. S. _gepos_. 4155. '_To wet one's whistle_' is still in use for to drink deeply. '_I wete my whystell_, as good drinkers do'; Palsgrave, p. 780. In Walton's Complete Angler, Part i. ch. 5, we find: 'Let's drink the other cup to _wet our whistles_.' 4172. _wilde fyr_, erysipelas (to torment them); see Halliwell. Cf. E. 2252. The entry--'_Erysipela_ (_sic_), wilde fyr' occurs in Ælfric's Vocabulary. So in Le Rom. de la Rose:--'que Mal-Feu l'arde'; 7438, 8319. 4174. _flour_, choice, best of a thing; _il ending_, evil death, bad end. 'They shall have the best (i. e. here, the worst) of a bad end.' Rather a wish than a prophecy. 4181. Sidenote in MS. Hl.--'Qui in vno grauatur in alio debet releuari.' A Law Maxim. 4194. _upright_, upon her back. 'To slepe on the backe, _vpryght_, is vtterly to be abhorred'; Babees Book, ed. Furnivall, p. 245. Palsgrave, s. v. _Throwe_, has: 'I throwe a man _on his backe_ or _upright_, so that his face is upwarde, _Ie renuerse_.' And see Nares. Cf. 'Now dounward groffe [on your belly], and now _upright_'; Rom. Rose, 2561. _Bolt-upright_ occurs in l. 4266; where _bolt_ is 'like a bolt,' hence 'straight,' or exactly. See _Bolt_, adv., in the New E. Dictionary. And compare B. 1506. 4208. _daf_, fool; from E. _daf-t_. _cokenay_, a milk-sop, poor creature. The orig. sense of _coken-ay_ is 'cocks' egg,' from a singular piece of folk-lore which credited cocks with laying such eggs as happen to be imperfect. 'The small yolkless eggs which hens sometimes lay are called "cocks' eggs," generally in the firm persuasion that the name states a fact'; Shropshire Folklore, by C. S. Burne, p. 229. The idea is old, and may be found gravely stated as a fact in Bartolomæus De Proprietatibus Rerum (14th century). See _Cockney_ in the New E. Dictionary. 4210. _Unhardy is unsely_, the cowardly man has no luck. 'Audentes [126] fortuna iuuat'; Vergil, Aen. x. 284. So also our 'Nothing venture, nothing have,' and 'Faint heart never won fair lady'; which see in Hazlitt's Proverbs. For _seel_, luck, see l. 4239. See Troil. iv. 602, and the note. 4220. Pronounce _ben'cite_ in three syllables; as usual. 4233. _The thridde cok_; apparently, between 5 and 6 A.M.; see note to line 3675 above. It was near dawn; see l. 4249.