There is a curious reference to the same instrument in the following passage from Horman's Vulgaria, leaf 338, back:--'There be iorneyringis [day-circles, dials] and instrume_n_t_is_ lyke an ha_n_gynge pyler with a tu_n_ge lyllyng [lolling] out, to knowe what tyme of the day.' In Wright's Vocabularies, ed. Wülker, 572. 22, we find: '_Chilindrus, anglice_ a leuel; _uel est instrumentum quo hore notantur, anglice_ a chylaundre.' It thus appears that the reading _kalendar_, in the old editions, is due to a mistake. The most interesting comment on this passage is afforded by the opening lines of the Prologue to Part II. of Lydgate's _Siege of Thebes_, where Lydgate is clearly thinking of Chaucer's words. Here also the black-letter edition of 1561 has _Kalendar_, but the reading of MS. Arundel 119 (leaf 18) is more correct, as follows:-- 'Passed the throp of Bowton on the Ble, By my _chilyndre_ I gan anon to se, Thorgh the sonne, that ful cler gan shyne, Of the clok[ke] that it drogh to nyne.' _pryme of day_, 9 A.M., in the present passage; see above, and note the preparations for dinner in ll. 1399-1401; the dinner-hour being 10 A.M. See also note to A. 3906. 'Our forefathers dined at an hour at which we think it fashionable to breakfast; _ten o 'clock_ was the time established by ancient usage for the principal meal'; Our Eng. Home, p. 33. In earlier times it was _nine_ o'clock; see Wright, Hist. of Domestic Manners, p. 155. 1399. 'As cheery as a magpie.' 1404. _Qui la?_ who's there. All the MSS. agree in thus cutting down the expression _qui est la_ to two words; and this abbreviation is emphasised by the English gloss 'Who ther' in E. and Hn.; Cm. has _Who there_, without any French. It is clear, too, that the line is imperfect at the caesura, thus:-- _Qui la_? | quod he. | --Pe | ter it | am I || This medial pause is probably intentional, to mark the difference between the speakers. Ed. 1532 (which Tyrwhitt follows) has _Qui est la_, in order to fill out the line. Wright has the same; and (as usual) suppresses the fact that the word _est_ is not in the MS. which he follows 'with literal accuracy.' [172] _Peter!_ by Saint Peter! a too common exclamation, shewing that even women used to swear. It occurs again in D. 446, 1332, and Hous of Fame, 1034, 2000. 1412. _elenge_, pronounced (eeléngg[*e]), in a dreary, tedious, lonely manner; drearily. From A. S. _[=æ]lenge_, lengthy, protracted; a derivative from _lang_, long; see P. Plowman, C. i. 204, and the note. In Pegge's Kenticisms (E. D. S. Gloss. C. 3), we have: '_Ellinge_ [_pronounced_ éllinj], _adj._ solitary, lonely, melancholy, farre from neighbours. See Ray.' It is also still in use in Sussex. The usual derivation from A. S. _ellende_, foreign, is incorrect; but it seems to have been confused with this word, whence the sense of 'strange, foreign,' was imported into it. See _Alange_ in the New E. Dictionary.