386. _mormal_, a cancer or gangrene. Ben Jonson, in imitation of [38] this passage, has described a cook with an 'old _mortmal_ on his shin'; Sad Shepherd, act ii. sc. 2. Lydgate speaks of 'Goutes, _mormalles_, horrible to the sight'; Falls of Princes, bk. vii. c. 10. In Polit. Religious and Love Poems, ed. Furnivall, p. 218, we are told that the sin of Luxury 'ys a lyther _mormale_.' In Skelton's Magnificence, l. 1932, Adversity is made to say--'Some with the _marmoll_ to halte I them make'; and it is remarkable that Palsgrave gives both--'_Mormall_, a sore,' and '_Marmoll_, a sore'; the latter being plainly a corrupt form. See also Prompt. Parvulorum, p. 343, note 5. In MS. Oo. i. 20, last leaf, in the Camb. Univ. Library, are notices of remedies 'Por la maladie que est apele _malum mortuum_.' The MS. says that it comes from melancholy, and shows a broad hard scurf or crust. 387. _blank-manger_, a compound made of capon minced, with rice, milk, sugar, and almonds; see Liber Cure Cocorum, ed. Morris, p. 9. Named from its white colour. THE SHIPMAN. See the essay on Chaucer's Shipman in Essays on Chaucer, p. 455. 388. _woning_, dwelling; from A. S. _wunian_, to dwell. _by weste_ = _westward_. A good old expression, which was once very common as late as the sixteenth century. 389. Dartmouth was once a very considerable port; see Essays on Chaucer, p. 456. Compare the account of the Shipman's Gild at Lynn; E. Gilds, p. 54. 390. _rouncy_, a common hackney horse, a nag. Cf. _Rozinante_. '_Rocinante_--significativo de lo que habia sido cuando fué _rocin, antes_ de lo que ahora era.' Don Quijote, cap. 1. 'From _Rozin_, a drudge-horse, and _ante_, before.' Jarvis's note. The O. F. form is _roncin_; Low Lat. _runcinus_. The _rouncy_ was chiefly used for agricultural work; see Essays on Chaucer, p. 494. _as he couthe_, as he knew how; but, as a sailor, his knowledge this way was deficient. 391. _a goune of falding_, a gown (robe) of coarse cloth. The term _falding_ signifies 'a kind of frieze or rough-napped cloth,' which was probably 'supplied from the North of Europe, and identical with the woollen wrappers of which Hermoldus speaks, "_quos nos appellamus Faldones_."'--Way. '_Falding_ was a coarse serge cloth, very rough and durable,' &c.; Essays on Chaucer, p. 438. In MS. O. 5. 4, in Trinity College, Cambridge, occurs the entry--'Amphibulus, vestis equi villosa, anglice _a sclauayn or faldyng_'; cited in Furnivall's Temporary Preface, p. 99. In 1392, I find a mention of 'unam tunicam de nigro _faldyng_ lineatam'; Testamenta Eboracensia, i. 173. Hence its colour was sometimes black, and the Shipman's gown is so coloured in the drawing in the Ellesmere MS.; but see A. 3212. See the whole of Way's long note in the Prompt. Parvulorum. [39] 392. _laas_, lace, cord. Seamen still carry their knives slung.