1630. 'The monk put an ape in the man's hood, and in his wife's too.' We should now say, he made him look like an ape. The contents of the _hood_ would be, properly, the man's head and face; but neighbours seemed to see peeping from it an ape rather than a man. It is a way of saying that he made a dupe of him. In the Milleres Tale (A. 3389), a girl is said to have made her lover _an ape_, i. e. a dupe; an expression which recurs in the Chanones Yemannes Tale, G. 1313. Spenser probably borrowed the expression from this very passage; it occurs in his Faerie Queene, iii. 9. 31:-- 'Thus was _the ape_, By their faire handling, _put into Malbeccoes cape_.' 1632. 'Never entertain monks any more.' 1637. See the description of the Prioress in the Prologue, A. 118. THE PRIORESSES TALE. For general remarks upon this Tale, see vol. iii. p. 421. 1643. Cf. Ps. viii. 1-2. The Vulgate version has--'Domine Dominus noster, quam admirabile est nomen tuum in uniuersa terra! Quoniam eleuata est magnificentia tua super caelos! Ex ore infantium et lactentium perfecisti laudem,' &c. 1650. _can or may_, know how to, or have ability to do. 1651. The 'white lily' was the token of Mary's perpetual virginity. See this explained at length in Rock, Church of our Fathers, iii. 245. 1655. 'For she herself is honour, and, next after her Son, the root of bounty, and the help (or profit) of souls.' 1658. Cf. Chaucer's A.B.C, or Hymn to the Virgin, (Minor Poems, vol. i. p. 266), where we find under the heading M-- 'Moises, that saugh the bush with flaumes rede Brenninge, of which ther never a stikke brende, Was signe of thyn unwemmed maidenhede; Thou art the bush, on which ther gan descende The Holy Gost, the which that Moises wende Had been a-fyr.' [175] So also in st. 2 of an Alliterative Hymn in Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, ed. Hazlitt, ii. 284. 1659. 'That, through thy humility, didst draw down from the Deity the Spirit that alighted in thee.' 1660. _thalighte_ = _thee alighte_, the two words being run into one. Such agglutination is more common when the def. art. occurs, or with the word _to_; cf. _Texpounden_ in B. 1716. 1661. _lighte_ may mean either (1) cheered, lightened; or (2) illuminated. Tyrwhitt and Richardson both take the latter view; but the following passage, in which _hertes_ occurs, makes the former the more probable:-- 'But nathelees, it was so fair a sighte That it made alle hir _hertes_ for to _lighte_.' Sq. Ta.; F. 395. 1664. Partly imitated from Dante, Paradiso, xxxiii. 16:-- 'La tua benignità non pur soccorre A chi dimanda, ma molte fiate Liberamente al dimandar precorre. In te misericordia, in te pietate, In te magnificenza, in te s'aduna Quantunque in creatura è di bontate.