3127. _as to my doom_, in my judgment. 3130. Scan the line--Bút a góvernoúr wylý and wýs. The Petworth MS. inserts 'boþ' before 'wyly': but this requires the very unlikely accentuation 'govérnour' and an emphasis on a. The line would scan better if we might insert _art_, or _lyk_, after _But_, but there is no authority for this. 3132. Read--_A wél-faríng persónë_, after which comes the pause, as marked in E. and Hn. 3139. The monk's _semi-cope_, which seems to have been an ample one, is mentioned in the Prologue, A. 262. In Jack Upland, § 4, a friar is asked what is signified by his 'wide cope.' 3142. 'Shaven very high on his crown'; alluding to the tonsure. 3144. _the corn_, i. e. the chief part or share. 3145. _borel men_, lay-men. _Borel_ means 'rude, unlearned, ignorant,' and seems to have arisen from a peculiar use of _borel_ or _burel_, sb., a coarse cloth; so that its original sense, as an adj., was 'in coarse clothing,' or 'rudely clad.' See _borrel_ and _burel_ in the New Eng. Dictionary. _shrimpes_, diminutive or poor creatures. 3146. _wrecched impes_, poor grafts, weakly shoots. Cf. A. S. _impian_, to graft, _imp_, a graft; borrowed from Low Lat. _impotus_, a graft, from Gk. [Greek: emphutos], engrafted. 3152. _lussheburghes_, light coins. In P. Plowman, B. xv. 342, we are told that 'in Lussheborwes is a lyther alay (bad alloy), and yet loketh he lyke a sterlynge.' They were spurious coins imported into England from Luxembourg, whence the name. See Liber Albus, ed. Riley, 1841, p. 495; and Blount's Nomolexicon. Luxembourg is called _Lusscheburghe_ in the Allit. Morte Arthure, l. 2388. The importation of this false money was frequently forbidden, viz. in 1347, 1348, and 1351. 3157. _souneth into_, tends to, is consistent with; see Prol. A. 307, and Sq. Ta., F. 517. The following extracts from Palsgrave's French Dictionary are to the point. 'I sownde, I appartayne or belong, _Ie tens_. [226] Thys thyng sowndeth to a good purpose, _Ceste chose tent a bonne fin_.' Also, 'I sownde, as a tale or a report sowndeth to ones honesty or dyshonesty, _Ie redonde_. I promise you that this matter sowndeth moche to your dishonoure, _Ie vous promets que ceste matyere redonde fort a votre deshonneur_.' 3160. _Seint Edward._ There are two of the name, viz. Edward, king and martyr, commemorated on March 16, 18, or 19, and the second King Edward, best known as Edward the Confessor, commemorated on Jan. 5. In Piers the Plowman, B. xv. 217, we have-- 'Edmonde and Edwarde · eyther were kynges, And seyntes ysette · tyl charite hem folwed.'