760. _maad our rekeninges_, i. e. paid our scores. 764. _I saugh nat_ (Elles. &c.); _I ne saugh_ (Harl.). To scan the line, read _I n' saugh_, dropping the _e_ in _ne_. The insertion of _ne_ is essential to the sense, viz. 'I have not seen.' 765. _herberwe_, inn, lit. harbour. The F. _auberge_ is from the O.H.G. form of the same word. 770. 'May the blessed martyr duly reward you!' 772. _shapen yow_, intend; cf. l. 809. _talen_, to tell tales. 777. _yow lyketh alle_, it pleases you all; _yow_ is in the dat. case, as in the mod. E. 'if _you_ please.' See note to l. 37. 783. 'Hold up your hands'; to signify assent. 785. _to make it wys_, to make it a matter of wisdom or deliberation; so also _made it strange_, made it a matter of difficulty, A. 3980. 791. 'To shorten your way with.' In M. E., the prep. _with_ always comes next the verb in phrases of this character. Most MSS. read _our_ for _your_ here, but this is rather premature. The host introduces his proposal to accompany the pilgrims by the use of _our_ in l. 799, and _we_ in l. 801; the proposal itself comes in l. 803. 792. As to the number of the tales, see vol. iii. pp. 374, 384. 798. 'Tales best suited to instruct and amuse.' 799. _our aller cost_, the expense of us all; here _our_ = A. S. _[=u]re_, of us; see ll. 710, 823. 808. _mo_, more; A. S. _m[=a]_. In M. E., _mo_ generally means 'more in number,' whilst _more_ means 'larger,' from A. S. _m[=a]ra_. Cf. l. 849. 810. _and our othes swore_, and _we_ swore our oaths; see next line. 817. _In heigh and lowe._ 'Lat. _In_, or _de alto et basso_, Fr. _de haut en bas_, were expressions of entire submission on one side, and sovereignty on the other.'--Tyrwhitt. Cotgrave (s. v. _Bas_) has:--'_Taillables haut et bas_, taxable at the will and pleasure of their lord.' It here means--'under all circumstances.' 819. _fet_, fetched; from A. S. _fetian_, to fetch, pp. _fetod_. 822. _day._ It is the morning of the 17th of April. See note to l. 1. 823. _our aller cok_, cock of us all, i. e. cock to awake us all. _our aller_ = A. S. _[=u]re ealra_, both in gen. pl. 825. _riden_, rode; pt. t. pl., as in l. 856. The _i_ is short. _pas_, a foot-pace. Cf. A. 2897; C. 866; G. 575; Troil. ii. 627. [59] 826. _St. Thomas a Waterings_ was a place for watering horses, at a brook beside the second mile-stone on the road to St. Thomas's shrine, i. e. to Canterbury. It was a place anciently used for executions in the county of Surrey, as Tyburn was in that of Middlesex. See Nares, s. v. _Waterings_. 828. _if yow leste_, if it may please you. The verb _listen_ made _liste_ in the past tense; but Chaucer changes the verb to the form _lesten_, pt. t. _leste_, probably for the sake of the rime. See ll. 750 and 102. In the Knightes Tale, A. 1052, _as hir liste_ rimes with _upriste_.