2509. _Counterwayte embusshements_, 'be on the watch against lyings in ambush.' '_Contregaitier_, v. act. épier, guetter de son côté'; refl. se garder, se mettre en garde'; Godefroy. Three examples are given of the active use, and four of the reflexive use. _Espiaille_, companies of spies; it occurs again in the sense of 'a set of spies' in D. 1323. Mätzner well remarks that _espiaille_ does not mean 'spying' or 'watching,' as usually explained, but is a _collective_ sb., like O. F. _rascaille_, _poraille_, _pedaille_. Godefroy, in his O. F. Dict., makes the same mistake, though his own example is against him. He has: '_Espiaille_, s. f. action d'épier: Nous avons ja noveles par nos _espiailles_'; i. e. by means of our spies (not of our spyings). This quotation is from an A. F. proclamation made in London, July 26, 1347. 2510. _Senek_, Seneca; but, as before, the reference is really to the Sentences of Publilius Syrus. Of these the Lat. text quotes no less than four, viz. Nos. 542, 607, 380, and 116 (ed. Dietrich); as follows:-- 'Qui omnes insidias timet, in nullas incidet.' 'Semper metuendo sapiens euitat malum.' 'Non cito perit ruina, qui ruinam timet.' 'Caret periculo, qui etiam [cum est] tutus cauet.' [214] 2514. _Senek_; this again is from Publilius Syrus, Sent. 255:--'Inimicum, quamuis humilem, docti est metuere.' 2515. The Lat. and Fr. texts both give the reference, correctly, to Ovid's Remedia Amoris; see l. 421:-- 'Parva necat morsu spatiosum uipera taurum; A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.' Chaucer has here interpolated the reference to 'the thorn pricking the king' between his translations of these two lines. The interpolation occurs neither in the French nor in the Latin text. _Wesele_, weasel. The origin of this queer mistake is easily perceived. The Fr. text has: 'La petite _vivre_ occist le grant torel.' Here _vivre_ represents Lat. _uipera_, a viper (cf. E. _wivern_); but Ch. has construed it as if it represented Lat. _uiuerra_, a ferret. 2518. _The book._ The quotation is from Seneca, Epist. 111. § 3:--'Quidam fallere docuerunt, dum falli timent.' (_For_ Quidam _read_ Nam multi). Tyrwhitt's text is here imperfect, and he says he has patched it up as he best could; but the MSS. (except Cp. and Ln.) give a correct text. 2520. Lat. text:--'Cum irrisore consortium non habeas; loquelae eius assiduitatem quasi toxica fugias.' From Albertano of Brescia, who here quotes from his own work, De Arte Eloquendi, p. cviii.; according to Sundby. 2521. _Warnestore_, protect; see note to 2487 above, and see 2523. 2523. _Swiche as han_, 'such as castles and other kinds of edifices have.'