1925. _Jane_, a small coin. The word is known to be a corruption of _Genoa_, which is spelt _Jeane_ in Hall's Chronicles, fol. xxiv. So too we find _Janueys_ and _Januayes_ for _Genoese_. See Bardsley's English Surnames, s. v. _Janeway_. Stow, in his Survey of London, ed. 1599, p. 97, says that some foreigners lived in Minchin Lane, who had come from _Genoa_, and were commonly called galley-men, who landed wines, &c. from the galleys at a place called 'galley-key' in Thames Street. 'They had a certaine coyne of silver amongst themselves, which were half-pence of Genoa, and were called _galley half-pence_. These half-pence were forbidden in the 13th year of Henry IV, and again by parliament in the 3rd of Henry V, by the name of _half-pence of Genoa_.... Notwithstanding, in my youth, I have seen them passe currant,' &c. Chaucer uses the word again in the Clerkes Tale (E. 999), and Spenser adopted it from Chaucer; F. Q. iii. 7. 58. Mr. Wright observes that 'the _siclaton_ was a rich cloth or silk brought from the East, and is therefore appropriately mentioned as bought with Genoese coin.' 1927. _for rivéer_, towards the river. This appears to be the best reading, and we must take _for_ in close connexion with _ryde_; perhaps it [187] is a mere imitation of the French _en riviere_. It alludes to the common practice of seeking the river-side, because the best sport, in hawking, was with herons and waterfowl. Tyrwhitt quotes from Froissart, v. 1. c. 140--'Le Comte de Flandres estoit tousjours _en riviere_--un jour advint qu'il alla voller _en la riviere_--et getta son fauconnier un faucon _apres le heron_.' And again, in c. 210, he says that Edward III 'alloit, chacun jour, ou _en chace_ on _en riviere_,' &c. So we read of Sir Eglamour:-- 'Sir Eglamore took the way to the riuèr ffull right'; Percy Folio MS. ii. 347. Of Ipomydon's education we learn that his tutor taught him to sing, to read, to serve in hall, to carve the meat, and 'Bothe of howndis and haukis game Aftir he taught hym, all and same, In se, in feld, and eke _in ryuere_, In wodde _to chase the wild dere_, And in the feld to ryde a stede, That all men had joy of his dede.' Weber's Met. Romances, ii. 283. See also the Squire of Low Degree, in Ritson, vol. iii. p. 177. 1931. _ram_, the usual prize at a wrestling match. Cf. Gk. [Greek: tragôidia]. _stonde_, i. e. be placed in the sight of the competitors; be seen. Cf. Prol. A. 548, and the Tale of Gamelyn, 172. Tyrwhitt says--'Matthew Paris mentions a wrestling-match at Westminster, A.D. 1222, in which a ram was the prize, p. 265.' Cf. also-- 'At wresteling, and at ston-castynge He wan the prys without lesynge,' &c.; Octouian Imperator, in Weber's Met. Rom. iii. 194. 1933. _paramour_, longingly; a common expression; see the Glossary. 1937. _hepe_, mod. E. 'hip,' the fruit of the dog-rose; A. S. _h[=e]ope_.