454. _ten pound._ Of course this is a playful exaggeration; but Tyrwhitt was not justified in altering _ten pound_ into _a pound_; for a pound-weight, in a head-dress of that period, was a mere nothing, as will be readily understood by observing the huge structures represented in Fairholt's Costume, figs. 125, 129, 130, 151, which were often further weighted with ornaments of gold. Skelton goes so far as to describe Elinour Rummyng (l. 72)-- 'With clothes upon her hed That wey a _sowe of led_.' Cf. Pierce the Ploughman's Crede, l. 84, and the note; Stubbes, Anatomy of Abuses, 1585, pp. 63, 70, 72; or ed. Furnivall, pp. 69, 74, 76. 457. _streite y-teyd_, tightly fastened. See note to l. 174. _moiste_, soft--not 'as hard as old boots.' So, in H. 60, _moysty ale_ is new ale. [44] 460. _chirche-dore._ The priest married the couple at the church-porch, and immediately afterwards proceeded to the altar to celebrate mass, at which the newly-married persons communicated. As Todd remarks--'The custom was, that the parties did not enter the church till that part of the office, where the minister now goes up to the altar [or rather, is directed to go up], and repeats the psalm.' See Warton, Hist. Eng. Poet. 1871, ii. 366, note 1; Anglia, vi. 106; Rock, Church of our Fathers, iii. pt. 2. 172; Brand's Antiquities, ed. Ellis, ii. 134. And see D. 6. 461. _Withouten_ = besides. _other companye_, other lovers. This expression (copied from Le Rom. de la Rose, l. 12985--'autre companie') makes it quite certain that the character of the Wife of Bath is copied, in some respects, from that of _La Vieille_ in the Roman de la Rose, as further appears in the Wife's Prologue. 462. _as nouthe_, as now, i. e. at present. The form _nouthe_ is not uncommon; it occurs in P. Plowman, Allit. Poems, Sir Gawain and the Grene Knight, &c. A. S. _n[=u] ð[=a]_, now then. 465. _Boloigne._ Cf. 'I will have you swear by our dear Lady of Boulogne'; Gammer Gurton's Needle, Act 2, sc. 2. An image of the virgin, at Boulogne, was sought by pilgrims. See Heylin's Survey of France, p. 163, ed. 1656 (quoted in the above, ed. Hazlitt). 466. _In Galice_ (Galicia), at the shrine of St. James of Compostella, a famous resort of pilgrims in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. As the legend goes, the body of St. James the Apostle was supposed to have been carried in a ship without a rudder to Galicia, and preserved at Compostella. See Piers Plowman, A. iv. 106, 110, and note to B. Prol. 47; also Eng. Gilds, ed. Toulmin Smith, pp. 172, 177. _Coloigne._ At Cologne, where the bones of the Three Kings or Wise Men of the East, _Gaspar_, _Melchior_ and _Balthazar_, are said to be preserved. See Coryat's Crudities; Chambers, Book of Days, ii. 751. 467. 'She knew much about travelling.'