574. _swich_, such; A. S. _swylce_. _lewed_, unlearned; as in l. 502. _pace_, pass, i. e. surpass. 575. _heep_, heap, i. e. crowd; like G. _Haufe_. 581. 'To make him live upon his own income.' 582. 'Unless he were mad.' See l. 184. 583. 'Or live as economically as it pleases him to wish to do.' 584. _al a_, a whole. Cf. '_all a_ summer's day'; Milton, P. L. i. 449. 586. _hir aller cappe_, the caps of them all. _Hir aller_ = eorum omnium. '_To sette_' a man's '_cappe_' is to overreach him, to cheat him, or to befool him. Cf. A. 3143. THE REVE. 587. _Reve._ See Prof. Thorold Rogers' capital sketch of Robert Oldman, the Cuxham bailiff, a serf of the manor (as reeves always were), in his Agriculture and Prices in England, i. 506-510. 592. _Y-lyk_, like. _y-sen-e_, visible; see note to l. 134. 593. 'He knew well how to keep a garner and a bin.' 597. _neet_, neat, cattle. _dayerye_, dairy. 598. _hors_, horses; pl. See note to l. 74. _pultrye_, poultry. 599. _hoolly_, wholly; from A. S. _h[=a]l_, whole. 601. _Sin_, short for _sithen_; and _sithen_, with an added suffix, became _sithen-s_ or _sithen-ce_, mod. E. _since_. [51] 602. 'No one could prove him to be in arrears.' 603. _herde_, herd, i. e. cow-herd or shep-herd. _hyne_, hind, farm-labourer. 604. _That ... his_, whose; as in A. 2710. _covyne_, deceit; lit. a deceitful agreement between two parties to prejudice a third. O. F. _covine_, a project; from O. F. _covenir_, Lat. _conuenire_, to come together, agree. 605. _adrad_, afraid; from the pp. of A. S. _ofdr[=æ]dan_, to terrify greatly. _the deeth_, the pestilence; see note to l. 442. 606. _woning_, dwelling-place; see l. 388. 609. _astored_ (Elles. &c.); _istored_ (Harl.); furnished with stores. 611. _lene_, lend; whence E. _len-d_. _of_, some of. 613. _mister_, trade, craft; O. F. _mestier_ (F. _métier_), business; Lat. _ministerium_. 'Men of all _mysteris_'; Barbour's Bruce, xvii. 542. 614. _wel_, very. _wrighte_, wright, workman. 615. _stot_, probably what we should now call a cob. Prof. J. E. T. Rogers, in his Hist. of Agriculture, i. 36, supposes that a stot was a low-bred undersized stallion. It frequently occurs with the sense of 'bullock'; see note to P. Plowman, C. xxii. 267. 616. Sir Topas's horse was 'dappel-gray,' which has the same sense as _pomely gray_, viz. gray dappled with round apple-like spots. 'Apon a cowrsowre _poumle-gray_'; Wyntown, Chron. iv. 217; '_pomly-gray_'; Palladius on Husbandry, bk. iv. l. 809; 'Upon a _pomely_ palfray'; Lybeaus Disconus, 844 (in Ritson's Metrical Romances). Florio gives Ital. _pomellato_, 'pide, daple-graie.' The word occurs in the French Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, ed. Joly, 10722:--'Quant Troylus orent monté Sor un cheval _sor pommelé_.' Cf. G. 559.