1244. _Shoop him_, lit. shaped himself, set about, got ready. Cf. P. Plowman, C. i. 2, xiv. 247, and the notes. 1245. _Brugges_, Bruges; which, as Wright remarks, was 'the grand central mart of European commerce in the middle ages.' Cf. P. Plowman, C. vii. 278, and the note. 1256. _graunges_, granges; cf. notes to A. 3668, and A. 166. 1260. _Malvesye_, Malmsey; so named from _Malvasia_, now _Napoli di Malvasia_, a town on the E. coast of Lacedaemonia in the Morea. See note in the Babees Book, ed. Furnivall, p. 206, where _Malvasia_ is explained as the Ital. corruption of _Monemvasia_, from Gk. [Greek: monê embasia], single entrance; with reference to its position. 1261. _Vernage._ In the Babees Book, ed. Furnivall, p. 203, _vernage_ is said to be a red wine, bright, sweet, and somewhat rough, from Tuscany and Genoa, and other parts of Italy. The Ital. name is _vernaccia_, lit. the name of a thick-skinned grape. The information in this note and the preceding one is drawn from Henderson's History of Ancient and Modern Wines, 1824: which see. 1262. _volatyl_, wild fowl, game; here used as a collective plural, to represent Lat. _uolatilia_. Littré quotes: 'Tant ot les _volatiles_ chieres'; Roman de la Rose, 20365. Wyclif has _al volatile_ to translate _cunctum_ [169] _uolatile_, Gen. vii. 14; also _my volatilis_ in Matt. xxii. 4, where the Vulgate has _altilia_. Cf. F. _volaille_. 1278. _passed pryme_, past 9 A.M. See notes to A. 3906, F. 73; and cf. B. 1396. 1281. _his thinges_, the things he had to say; cf. F. 78. It 'means the divine office in the Breviary, i. e. the psalms and lessons from scripture which, being absent from the convent, he was bound to say privately'; Bell. _curteisly_, reverently. See note to l. 1321 below. 1287. _under the yerde_, still subject to the discipline of the rod. As girls were married at a very early age, this should mean 'still quite a child.' Cf. _as hir list_ in l. 1286. And see E. 22. See Ælfric's Colloquy (Wright's Vocab. ed. Wülker, p. 102), where the boy says he is still _sub uirga_, on which the A.S. gloss is _under gyrda_. F. _sous la verge_ (Littré). 1292. _appalled_, enfeebled, languid; see F. 365.