4079. _herte dere._ This expression corresponds to 'dear heart,' or 'deary heart,' which still survives in some parts of the country. 4083. _take it nat agrief_ = _take it not in grief_, i. e. take it not amiss, be not offended. 4084. _me mette_, I dreamed; literally _it dreamed to me_. 4086. _my swevene recche_ (or _rede_) _aright_, bring my dream to a good issue; literally 'interpret my dream favourably.' 4090. _Was lyk._ The relative _that_ is often omitted by Chaucer before a relative clause, as, again, in l. 4365. 4098. _Avoy_ (Elles.); _Away_ (Harl.). From O. F. _avoi_, interj. fie! It occurs in Le Roman de la Rose, 7284, 16634. 4113. See the Chapter on Dreams in Brand's Pop. Antiquities. 4114. _fume_, the effects arising from gluttony and drunkenness. 'Anxious black melancholy _fumes_.'--Burton's Anat. of Mel. p. 438, ed. 1845. 'All vapours arising out of the stomach,' especially those caused by gluttony and drunkenness. 'For when the head is heated it scorcheth the blood, and from thence proceed melancholy _fumes_ that trouble the mind.'--Ibid. p. 269. 4118. _rede colera_ ... red cholera caused by too much bile and _blood_ (sometimes called _red humour_). Burton speaks of a kind of melancholy of which the signs are these--'the veins of their eyes red, as well as their faces.' The following quotation explains the matter. 'Ther be foure humours, Bloud, Fleame, Cholar, and Melancholy.... First, working heate turneth what is colde and moyst into the kind of Fleme, and then what is hot and moyst, into the kinde of Bloud; and then what is hot and drye into the kinde of Cholera; and then what is colde and drye into the kinde of Melancholia.... By meddling of other humours, Bloud chaungeth kinde and colour: for by meddling of _Cholar_, it seemeth _red_, and by Melancholy it seemeth _black_, and by Fleame it seemeth watrie, and fomie.'--Batman upon Bartholomè, lib. iv. c. 6. So also--'in bloud it needeth that there be _red Cholera_'; lib. iv. c. 10; &c. The following explains the belief as to dreams caused by _cholera_. Men in which red _Cholera_ is excesssive 'dreame of fire, and of lyghtening, and of dreadful burning of the ayre'; Batman upon Bartholomè, lib. iv. c. 10. Those in which _Melancholia_ is excessive dream 'dredfull darke dreames, and very ill to see'; id. c. 11. And again: 'He that is Sanguine hath glad and liking dreames, the melancholious dremeth of sorrow, the Cholarike, of _firy_ things, and the Flematike, of Raine, Snow,' &c.; id. lib. vi. c. 27.