"It is a ful trie tree, quod he, Trewely to telle; Mercy is the _more_ therof, The myddul stok is ruthe; The leves ben lele wordes, The lawe of holy chirche; The blosmes beth buxom speche, And benigne lokynge; Pacience hatte the pure tree," &c. _Id._, vol. ii. p. 330. "It groweth in a gardyn, quod he, That God made hymselve, Amyddes mannes body, The _more_ is of that stokke, Herte highte the herber, That it inne groweth." _Id._, vol. ii. p. 331. There should not be any comma, or other stop, at body, because the sense is--"The root of that stock is amid man's body." Mr. Wright's Glossary refers to these last two instances as follows: "_More_ (A.-S.) 330, 331., the main or larger part, body (?)" At p. 334. we meet with the word again: "On o _more_ thei growed." And again, at p. 416.: "And bite a-two the _mores_." May I, in passing, venture to inquire of the editor on what authority he explains _waselede_ (p. 476.) to be "the pret. of _waselen_ (A.-S.) to become dirty, dirty oneself?" "This Troilus withouten rede or lore, As man that hath his joies eke forlore, Was waiting on his lady evermore, As she that was sothfast croppe and _more_, Of all his lust or joyes here tofore." Chaucer's _Troilus and Creseide_, b.v. {402} Afterwards, in the same book, a few stanzas further on, he joins "crop" and "root" together. "Last of all, if these thinges auayle not the cure, I do commend and allow above all the rest, that you take the iuyce of Celendine rootes, making them cleane from the earth that doth vse to hang to the _moores_."--_The Booke of Falconrie_, by George Turbervile, 1611, p. 236. "Chiefely, if the _moare_ of vertue be not cropped, but dayly rooted deepelyer."--_The Fyrste Booke of the Nobles or of Nobilitye_, translated from Laurence Humfrey. The next and last example from the "Second Booke" of this interesting little volume I will quote more at large: