1557. _Lumbardes_, Lombards, the great money-lenders and bankers of the middle ages. Cf. 'Lumbardes of Lukes, that lyuen by lone as Iewes,' Lombards from Lucca, that live by lending, as Jews do; P. Plowman, C. v. 194. Owing to the accent, _Lumbard's_ is dissyllabic. 1558. _bond_ is misprinted _hond_ in Wright's edition; MS. Hl. has _bond_, correctly, though the note in Bell says otherwise. 1592. _Marie_, by St. Mary; the familiar 'Marry!' as used by our dramatists. 1595. _yvel thedom_, ill success. Cf. 'Now, sere, evyl thedom com to thi snoute'; Coventry Mysteries, p. 139. This is printed by Halliwell in the form--'Now, sere evyl Thedom, com to thi snoute,' i. e. 'now, sir Ill Success, come to thy snout'; but _how_ a man can come to his own nose, we are not told. 1599. _bele chere_, fair entertainment, hospitality. _Bele_ = mod. F. _belle_. 1606. 'Score it upon my tally,' make a note of it. See A. 570, and note to P. Plowman, C. v. 61. 1613. _to wedde_, as a pledge (common). Cf. A. 1218. 1621. _large_, liberal; hence E. _largesse_, liberality. THE PRIORESS'S PROLOGUE. 1625. _corpus dominus_; of course for _corpus domini_, the Lord's body. But it is unnecessary to correct the Host's Latin. 1626. 'Now long mayest thou sail along the coast!' 1627. _marineer_, Fr. _marinier_; we now use the ending _-er_; but modern words of French origin shew their lateness by the accent on the last syllable, as _engineer_.--M. The Fr. _pionnier_ is _pioner_ in Shakespeare, but is now _pioneer_. 1628. 'God give this monk a thousand cart-loads of bad years!' [174] He alludes to the deceitful monk described in the Shipman's Tale. A _last_ is a very heavy load. In a Statute of 31 Edw. I. a _weight_ is declared to be 14 stone; 2 _weights_ of wool are to make a _sack_; and 12 _sacks_ a _last_. This makes a last of wool to be 336 stone, or 42 cwt. But the dictionaries shew that the weight was very variable, according to the substance weighed. The word means simply a heavy burden, from A. S. _hlæst_, a burden, connected with _hladan_, to load; so that _last_ and _load_ are alike in sense. _Laste_, in the sense of heavy weight, occurs in Richard the Redeles, ed. Skeat, iv. 74. _Quad_ is the Old English equivalent of the Dutch _kwaad_, bad, a word in very common use. In O.E., _þe qued_ means the evil one, the devil; P. Pl. B. xiv. 189. Cf. note to A. 4357. The omission of the word _of_ before _quad_ may be illustrated by the expression 'four score years,' i. e. _of_ years.