4236. _Malin_, another form of _Malkin_, which is a pet-name for _Matilda_. See my note to P. Plowman, C. ii. 181, where my statement that _Malkin_ occurs in the present passage refers to Tyrwhitt's edition, which substitutes _Malkin_ for the _Malin_ or _Malyn_ of the MSS. and of ed. 1532. Cf. B. 30. '_Malyn_, tersorium,' Cath. Anglicum; i. e. _Malin_, like _Malkin_, also meant a dishclout. _Malin_ has now become _Molly_. 4244. _cake._ In Wright's Glossaries, ed. Wülker, col. 788, l. 36, we find, '_Hic panis subverucius_, a meleres cake'; on which Wright remarks: 'Perhaps this name alludes to the common report that the miller always stole the flour from his customers to make his cakes, which were baked on the sly.' 4253. _toty_, in the seven MSS.; _totty_ in ed. 1532. It means 'dizzy, reeling'; and Halliwell, s. v. _Totty_, quotes from MS. Rawl. C. 86: 'So _toty_ was the brayn of his hede.' Cf. 'And some also so _toty_ in theyr heade'; Lydgate, Siege of Troy, ed. 1555, fol. L 1, back. Spenser has the word twice, as _tottie_ or _totty_, and evidently copied it from this very passage, which he read in a black-letter edition; see his Shep. Kal., _February_, 55, and F. Q. vii. 7. 39. Cf. E. _totter_. 4257. _a twenty devel way_, with extremely ill-luck. See note to l. 3713. 4264. Compare B. 1417. 4272. _linage_; her grandfather was a priest; see note to l. 3943. 4278. _poke_, bag; cf. the proverb, 'To buy a pig in a poke.' 'Than on the grounde together rounde With many a sadde stroke They roule and rumble, they turne and tumble, _As pygges do in a poke_.' Sir T. More, A Merrie Iest, &c. (1510). This juvenile poem by Sir T. More is printed in Hazlitt's Popular Poetry, iii. 128, and in the Preface to Todd's Johnson. 4286. _Bromeholm._ A piece of what was supposed to be the true cross was brought from the East by an English priest to Norfolk in 1223, and immediately became famous as an object of pilgrimage. It is called the 'Rode [rood] of Bromeholme' in P. Plowman, B. v. 231; see my note to that line. 4287. The full form is quoted in the note to Scott's Marmion, can. ii. st. 13:--'In manus tuas, Domine, commendo spiritum meum; a vinculis enim mortis redemisti me, Domine veritatis, Amen.' In [127] Ratis Raving, &c., ed. Lumby, p. 8, l. 263, the form ends with 'spiritum meum, domine, deus veritatis.' In Reliquiae Antiquae, i. 235, the following translation of the Latin form is given:-- 'Loverd Godd, in hondes thine I bequethe soule mine; Thu me boctest with thi deadd, Loverd Godd of sothfastheedd.'