Now, take as miswritten the words _yow_ and _to-samne_ in the first line, and substitute respectively _be_ and _to-famen_, and sense is obtained. New Guise has overheard Mercy saying that too much corn for a horse makes it unruly and unmanageable. "Good!" says New Guise, "you are no liar, for I fed my wife so well that she has given me a clouting--here is the plaster!... If my wife were your horse she would be altogether famished. I trow if ye were the King's palfrey-man a good horse would go empty or be scarce (King's horses, for parade purposes requiring plenty of the best fodder). The misscripts are not unlikely ones, and--well, 'tis but a suggestion." "Steuen wille vs traueile and _famen_ vs to dede."--_Robert_ _de Brunne_, p. 122. GHOST, GHOSTLY (_passim_), soul, breath, spirit, will; spiritual, not carnal or secular, religious: Ger., _geistlich_. As, his holy _ghost_ (of the will of a man), ghostly purpose, _ghostly_ enemy, _ghostly_ solace _ghostly_ comfort, _ghostly, ghostly_ to our purpose, father _ghostly, ghostly_ reason. GINNETH, "when she _ginneth_ wane" (N44,_a_), beginneth. "This lessoun thus I _ginne_."--_William of_ _Palerne_, 1929. "Into hyr bedde the boy _gan_ crepe."--_Octovian_, 176. GINST, "_ginst_ to err" (N52,_b_), see previous entry. GIS, "by Gis" (_passim_), Jesus: also Jis and Gisse. GIVE, "_give_ the rope just to thy neck" (M35,_d_), put, adjust. GODAMIGHTIES (R225,_a_), a term applied to any person or thing greatly idolised: also and mostly, now-a-days, in sarcasm, _e.g._ a little God-almighty (of a conceited prig), etc. Avarice is speaking of his money bags. GODIGOD (R182,_c_), "God give you good [day]," a gloss of Prof. Brandl's. Also (R258,_c_), _Godigod eve_ and _Godigod speed_. GOD'S GOOD, "a hat of _God's good_" (R229,_b_), yeast; _sallet_ = helmet (see E.E.D.S., _Anon. Plays_, 1 Ser. 274_a_). People means that instead of being well enough off to get a helmet to serve the king, he is fain to be content with a yeast tub; probably it was meant also as a bit of "business" for the groundlings' sake. GOSS, "by _Goss_" (R194,_c_), God. GOVERNANCE, "this is his _governance_" (M26,_d_), behaviour, manners, conduct, mode of life. "Now schalle I telle you the _governance_ of the court of the grete Cham."--_Maundeville_, p. 232. GOVERNY, "the whole rule and _governy_" (N60,_c_), control, management, guidance. GRASS, "while the _grass_ shall grow the horse shall sterve" (R233,_d_), see Heywood (E.E.D.S., _Works_, II., 378), _s.v._ Grass. GREEN CHEESE, "Ye can see no _green cheese_ but your teeth will water" (R216,_c_), cream cheese, the material of which "the moon is made": see Heywood, _Works_ (E.E.D.S.), II., 97_c_.