320. _purchasing_, conveyancing; _infect_, invalid. 'The learned Sergeant was clever enough to untie any entail, and pass the property as estate in fee simple.'--W. H. H. Kelke, in N. and Q. 5 S. vi. 487. The word _might-e_ occupies the fourth foot in the line. 323, 324. 'He was well acquainted with all the legal cases and decisions (or decrees) which had been ruled in the courts of law (lit. had befallen) since the time of William the Conqueror.' _In termes hadde he_, he had in terms, knew how to express in proper terms, was well acquainted with. 325. _Therto_, moreover. _make_, compose, draw up, draught. 326. _pinche at_, find fault with; lit. nip, twitch at. 327. _coude he_, he knew; _coude_ is the pt. t. of _konnen_, to know, A. S. _cunnan_. 328. _medlee cote_, a coat of mixed stuff or colour. In 1303, we find mention of 'one woman's surcoat of _medley_'; see Memorials of London, ed. Riley, p. 48. 329. _ceint of silk_, &c., a girdle of silk, with small ornaments. The _barres_ were called _cloux_ in French (Lat. _clavus_), and were the usual ornaments of a girdle. They were perforated to allow the tongue of the buckle to pass through them. 'Originally they were attached transversely to the wide tissue of which the girdle was formed, but subsequently were round or square, or fashioned like the heads of lions, and similar devices, the name of _barre_ being still retained, though improperly.'--Way, in Promptorium Parvulorum; s. v. _barre_. And see _Bar_ in the New English Dictionary. Gower also has: 'a ceinte of silk'; C. A. ed. Pauli, ii. 30. Cf. A. 3235, and Rom. of the Rose, 1085, 1103. _ceint_, O. F. _ceint_, a girdle; from Lat. _cinctus_, pp. of _cingere_, to gird. THE FRANKELEYN. 331. Fortescue (De Laudibus Legum Angliae, c. 29) describes a franklin to be a _pater familias--magnis ditatus possessionibus_; i. e. he was a substantial householder and a man of some importance. See Warton, Hist. E. Poet., ed. 1840, ii. 202; and Gloss. to P. Plowman. 332. _dayes-ye_, daisy; A. S. _dæges [=e]age_, lit. eye of day (the sun). 333. 'He was sanguine of complexion.' The old school of medicine, following Galen, supposed that there were four 'humours,' viz. hot, cold, moist, and dry (see l. 420), and four complexions or temperaments of men, viz. the sanguine, the choleric, the phlegmatic, and the melancholy. The man of sanguine complexion abounded in hot and moist humours, as shown in the following description, given in the Oriel MS. 79 (as quoted in my Preface to P. Plowman, B-text, p. xix):-- [33] '_Sanguineus._ Largus, amans, hilaris, ridens, rubeique coloris, Cantans, carnosus, satis audax, atque benignus: multum appetit, quia calidus; multum potest, quia humidus.' 334. _by the morwe_, in the morning. _a sop in wyn_, wine with pieces of cake or bread in it; see E. 1843. See Brand, Antiq. (ed. Ellis), ii. 137. Later, _sop-in-wine_ was a jocose name for a kind of pink or carnation; id. ii. 91.