4018-9. _by housbondrye_, by economy; _fond hir-self_, 'found herself,' provided for herself. 4022. _Ful sooty was hir bour, and eek hir halle._ The widow's house consisted of only two apartments, designated by the terms bower and hall. Whilst the widow and her 'daughters two' slept in the bower, Chanticleer and his seven wives roosted on a perch in the hall, and the swine disposed themselves on the floor. The smoke of the fire had to find its way through the crevices of the roof. See Our English Home, pp. 139, 140. Cf. Virgil, Ecl. vii. 50--'assidua postes fuligine nigri.' Also-- 'At his beds feete feeden his stalled teme, His swine beneath, his _pullen ore the beame_.' Hall's Satires, bk. v. sat. 1; v. 1. p. 56, ed. 1599. 4025. _No deyntee_ (Elles. &c.); _Noon deynteth_ (Harl.). 4029. _hertes suffisaunce_, a satisfied or contented mind, literally heart's satisfaction. Cf. our phrase 'to your heart's content.' 4032. _wyn ... whyt nor reed._ The white wine was sometimes called 'the wine of Osey' (Alsace); the red wine of Gascony, sometimes called 'Mountrose,' was deemed a liquor for a lord. See Our English Home, p. 83; Piers Pl. prol. l. 228. 4035. _Seynd bacoun_, singed or broiled bacon. _an ey or tweye_, an egg or two. 4036. _deye._ The _daia_ (from the Icel. _deigja_) is mentioned in Domesday among assistants in husbandry; and the term is again found in 2nd Stat. 25 Edward III (A.D. 1351). In Stat. 37 Edward III (A.D. 1363), the _deye_ is mentioned among others of a certain rank, not having goods or chattels of 40s. value. The _deye_ was usually a female, whose duty was to make butter and cheese, attend to the calves and poultry, and other odds and ends of the farm. The _dairy_ (in some parts of England, as in Shropshire, called a _dey_-house) was the department assigned to her. See Prompt. Parv., p. 116. 4039. In Caxton's translation of Reynard the Fox, the cock's name is _Chantecleer_. In the original, it is _Canticleer_; from his clear voice in singing. In the same, Reynard's second son is _Rosseel_; see l. 4524. 4041. _merier_, sweeter, pleasanter. In Todd's Illustrations of Chaucer, p. 284, there is a long passage illustrative of _mery_ in the sense of 'pleasant.' Cf. l. 4156. _orgon_ is put for _orgons_ or _organs_. It is plain from _gon_ in the next line, that Chaucer meant to use this word as a plural from the Lat. _organa_. _Organ_ was used until lately only in the plural, like _bellows_, _gallows_, &c. 'Which is either sung or said or on the _organs_ played.'--Becon's Acts of Christ, p. 534. It was sometimes called _a pair of organs_. See note to P. Plowman, C. xxi. 7. 4044. Cf. Parl. of Foules, 350:-- 'The cok, that orloge is of thorpes lyte.' [250] _Orloge_ (of an abbey) occurs in Religious Pieces, ed. Perry, p. 56; and see Stratmann.