There is a slight difficulty, however, in the rime, which should be noted. We see that the _t_ in _advocats_ was silent, and that the word was pronounced (ad·vokaa·s), riming with _allas_ (alaa·s), where the raised dot denotes the accent. That this was so, is indicated by the following spellings:--Pt. _aduocas_, and so also in Harl. 7335, Addit. 5140, Bodl. 414; Rawl. Poet. 149 has _advocas_; whilst Sloane 1685, Sloane 1686, and Camb. Mm. 2. 5 have _aduocase_, and Barlow 20, _advocase_. MS. Trin. Coll. R. 3. 3 has _aduocasse_. The testimony of ten MSS. may suffice; but it is worth noting that the F. pl. _aduocas_ occurs in Le Roman de la Rose, 5107. 293. 'Alas! she (Virginia) bought her beauty too dear'; she paid too high a price; it cost her her life. 297-300. These four lines are genuine; but several MSS., including E. Hn. Pt., omit the former pair (297-8), whilst several others omit the latter pair. Ed. 1532 contains both pairs, but alters l. 299. 299. _bothe yiftes_, both (kinds of) gifts; i. e. gifts of fortune, such as wealth, and of nature, such as beauty. Compare Dr. Johnson's poem on the Vanity of Human Wishes, imitated from the tenth satire of Juvenal. 303. _is no fors_, it is no matter. _It_ must be supplied, for the sense. [266] Sometimes Chaucer omits _it is_, and simply writes _no fors_, as in E. 1092, 2430. We also find _I do no fors_, I care not, D. 1234; and _They yeve no fors_, they care not, Romaunt of the Rose, 4826. Palsgrave has--'I gyue no force, I care nat for a thing, _Il ne men chault_.' 306. _Ypocras_ is the usual spelling, in English MSS., of _Hippocrates_; see Prologue A. 431. So also in the Book of the Duchess, 571, 572:-- 'Ne hele me may physicien, Noght Ypocras, ne Galien.' In the present passage it does not signify the physician himself, but a beverage named after him. 'It was composed of wine, with spices and sugar, strained through a cloth. It is said to have taken its name from _Hippocrates' sleeve_, the term apothecaries gave to a strainer'; Halliwell's Dict. s. v. _Hippocras_. In the same work, s. v. _Ipocras_, are several receipts for making it, the simplest being one copied from Arnold's Chronicle:--'Take a quart of red wyne, an ounce of synamon, and half an unce of gynger; a quarter of an ounce of greynes, and long peper, and halfe a pounde of sugar; and brose all this, and than put them in a bage of wullen clothe, made therefore, with the wyne; and lete it hange over a vessel, tyll the wyne be rune thorowe.' Halliwell adds that--'Ipocras seems to have been a great favourite with our ancestors, being served up at every entertainment, public or private. It generally made a part of the last course, and was taken immediately after dinner, with wafers or some other light biscuits'; &c. See Pegge's Form of Cury, p. 161; Babees Book, ed. Furnivall, pp. 125-128, 267, 378; Skelton, ed. Dyce, ii. 285; and Nares's Glossary, s. v. _Hippocras_.