625. _sawcefleem_ or _sawsfleem_, having a red pimpled face; lit. afflicted with pimples, &c., supposed to be caused by too much salt phlegm (_salsum phlegma_) in the constitution. The four humours of the blood, and the four consequent temperaments, are constantly referred to in various ways by early writers--by Chaucer as much as by any. Tyrwhitt quotes from an O. French book on physic (in MS. Bodley 761)--'Oignement magistrel pur _sausefleme_ et pur chescune manere de _roigne_,' where _roigne_ signifies any scorbutic eruption. 'So (he adds) in the Thousand Notable Things, B. i. 70--"A _sawsfleame_ or red pimpled face is helped with this medicine following:"--two of the ingredients are _quicksilver_ and _brimstone_. In another place, B. ii. 20, _oyle of tartar_ is said "to take away cleane all spots, freckles, and filthy _wheales_."' He also quotes, in his Glossary, from MS. Bodley 2463--'unguentum contra _salsum flegma_, scabiem, &c.' _Flewme_ in the Prompt. Parv. answers to Lat. _phlegma_. See the long note by J. Addis in N. and Q. 4 S. iv. 64; Babees Book, ed. Furnivall, p. 169, l. 777. 'The Greke word that he vsed was [Greek: exanthêmata], that is, little pimples or pushes, soche as, of cholere and salse flegme, budden out in the noses and faces of many persones, and are called the Saphires and Rubies of the Tauerne.'--Udall, tr. of Erasmus' Apophthegmes, _Diogenes_, § 6: [_printed_ false flegme _in_ ed. 1877.] See l. 420. 627. _scalled_, having the scall or scab, scabby, scurfy. _blake_, black. _piled_, deprived of hair, thin, slight. Cf. E. _peel_, vb. Palsgrave has--'_Pylled_, as one that wanteth heare'; and '_Pylled_, scal[l]ed.' 629. _litarge_, litharge, a name given to white lead. 630. _Boras_, borax. [53] _ceruce_, ceruse, a cosmetic made from white lead; see New E. Dict. _oille of tartre_, cream of tartar; potassium bitartrate. 632. Cf. 'Such _whelkes_ [on the head] haue small hoales, out of the which matter commeth.... And this euill commeth of vicious and gleymie [viscous] humour, which commeth to the skin of their head, and breedeth therein pimples and _whelks_.'--Batman on Bartholomè, lib. 7. c. 3. In the same, lib. 7. c. 67, we read that 'A _sauce flume_ face is a priuye signe of leprosie.' Cf. Shak. Hen. V. iii. 6. 108. 635. See Prov. xxiii. 31. The drinking of strong wine accounts for the Somnour's appearance. 'Wyne ... makith the uisage _salce fleumed_ [misprinted _falce flemed_], _rede_, and fulle of _white whelkes_'; Knight de la Tour, p. 116 (perhaps copied from Chaucer). 643. _Can clepen Watte_, i. e. can call Walter (Wat) by his name; just as parrots are taught to say 'Poll.' In Political Songs, ed. Wright, p. 328, an ignorant priest is likened to a jay in a cage, to which is added: 'Go[o]d Engelish he speketh, ac [_but_] he wot nevere what'; referring to the time when Anglo-French was the mother-tongue of many who became priests. 644. 'But if any one could test him in any other point.'