Fy! no corruption Cle. Take it; it is your's; Be not so spiced; it is good gold;, And goodness is no gall to the conscience. I am enabled, to illustrate this expression more fully by an extract from a work earlier than that which Mr. Tyrwhitt cites, or at least carries us back to remoter times. See "Questions of profitable and pleasant Concernings, talked of by two olde Seniors, &c. 4to. Lond. 1594. p. 15. "I remember how they dallied out the matter like Chaucers Frier at the first, vnder pretence of spiced holinesse." SPURNE AGAIN A NALL. Ch. Illustr. p. 132. To spurn against a nail; probably a proverbial expression of the same import, as to kick against the pricks. N. Test. Acts ix. 5. SQUIER, Fr. a squire, Ch. Prol. ver. 79. STANT, standeth. Gow. I. ver. 74, and Illustr. p. 132. As in Chaucer, C. T. ver. 3695. And still be stant under the shot window.gene STEVEN, the sound. Gow. II. ver. 47. So Chaucer, C. T. ver. 2564.2. 息 The vois of the peple touched to the hevenya 101 STEWE, a small pond for fish. Ch. Prol. ver. 351. STOT, Sax. Ch. Prol. ver. 617. Mr. Tyrwhitt takes stot to be put here for stod, the Saxon word for a stallion; although a stot signified properly a bullock, as it still does in the North. But see Chalmers's Gloss.: Poet. Works of Sir David Lyndsay, in V. Stot. “A young horse, Ray and Coles. Anglo-Sax. equus vilis." See also Strode, Dict. Sax. et Goth. "Stotte, equus vilis: Chart. ad calc. C. R. Ben." STRONDE, Sax. a shore. Ch. Prol. ver. 13. STRODE, Th. Anim. p. 23, and B. Pref. p. 142. The philosophical Strode, to whom, jointly with the moral Gower, Chaucer directs his Troilus, was probably Ralph Strode, of Merton College, Oxford. Mr. Tyrwhitt adds, that A. Wood, who had made the antiquities of that college a particular object of his enquiries, says only of him, “ RaDULPHUS STRODE, de quo sic vetus noster catalogus. Poeta fuit et versificavit librum elegiacum vocat. Phantasma Rodulphi Claruit CIOCCCLXX." Some of his logical works are said to be extant in print. Venet. 1517. 4to. Tanner, in v. STRODEUS. SUFFISANCE, Fr. sufficiency, satisfaction. Ch. Prol. ver. 492. SUS LE FOYLE de vert moy, SINE ET MON JOLY COEUR EST ENDORMY. Probably the beginning of a favourite French song, or rondeau. Ch. F. L. ver, 177, 178. The words are, however, corrupted; and in the Translation of the French words in Chaucer subjoined to Urry's Glossary, it is proposed to read, "Sus la feuille devers moy, son et mon &c." That is, "Upon the leaf by me, his and my pleasant heart is asleep." G SUSPECT, suspicion. Ch. Prol. ver. 322. .. SWELT, Sax. fainted. Ch. F. L. ver. 360. As in the Canterb. Tales, ver. 9650. 7 for the veray peine he was nie wood; Jo Almost he swelt, and swoined ther he stoode, SWICHE, SAXI Corruption eofdtswilke, such Ch. Prolu ver. 243, 487: Li nobod SWINKE, Sax.vlabourH Ch. Prol.ver, 188, F2bot diagot 119 am 19.be Ì· 19078m 90. trods betonos 91200 wadt vlis“ quotesgrody bn y distas of venruojaɔ dy TABARDE, Ch. Prolsverb 20. The sign of the inn, where Chaucer's Pilgrims were assembled. V They, says Mr. Tyrwhitt, who are disposed to tobelieve the pilgrimage to have been real, and bitol have happened in 1383, may support their bopinion by the following inscription, which is still to be read upon the inn now called The Talbotrin b Southwark; "This is the inn where Sir. Jeffrey Chaucer and the twenty-nine Pilgrims lodged in their journey to Canterbury, annob1383. Though the present inscription is evidently of a very recent date, we might suppose it to have been propagated to us by a succession of faithful transcripts from the very time, but unluckily there is too good reason to be assured that the first inscription of this sort was not earlier than the last century. Mr. Speght, who appears to have been inquisitive concerning this inn in 1597, has left us this account of it in his Glossary, V. Tabard; "A jaquet or slevelesse coate, worne in times past by noblemen in the warres, but now onely by heraults and is called theyre coate of armes in servise. It is the signe of am Inne in Southwarke by London, within the which was the lodging of the Abbot of Hyde by Winchester. This was the hostelry where Chaucer and the other pilgrims mett together, and, with Henry Baily their hoste, accorded about the manner of their journey to Canterbury. And whereas through time it hath bin much decaied, is now by Master Js Preston, with the Abbot's house thereto adjoyned, newly repaired, and with convenient roomes machencreaseds for lithedreceipt of many guests/bmIf any inscription of this kind had been there, he would hardly have comitted to mentioncit; and therefore bam persuaded it has been put apesince his time, and most proIbably when theɔsignn was changed from the Tabard to the Talbot, in order to preserve the ancient gloryeof the house notwithstanding its new titles Tyrwhitt's Introduct. DisebiC T. na✪ yd eu or boisgsqorq need avad of 11 9200 TAKEL, SOT TAXI, an arrow Ch Prob ver. 106. Brit, tacely tacgl.ex Used by Gower also..mi TAPISEH, Fr. a maker of tapestry.isCh. Prok. ver. 364. is TAPSTERE, Sax. a woman who has the care of the tap in a publick-house. Ch. Prol. ver. 241. That office, formerly, was usually executed, Mr. Tyrwhitt says, by women. See the Adventure of the Pardonere and the Tapstere, in the Continuation of the Canterbury Tales, p. 594. ed. Urr. In another place (note on C. T. ver. 2019.) Mr. Tyrwhitt observes, that the termination stre, or ster, was used to denote a female, like trix in Latin. Thus a female baker was called a bakester, a female brewer a brewester, &c. as here the lady of the tap denominated tapstere. TARTARIUM, cloth of Tars. Ch. F. L. ver. 212. Chaucer mentions "clothes of Tars," in his Kn. Tale. Mr. Warton says, that Tars does not mean Tarsus in Cilicia, but is rather an abbreviation for Tartarin or Tartarium. That it was a costly stuff appears from hence: "Et ad faciendum unum jupoun de Tartaryn blu pouderat. cum garteriis blu paratis cum boucles et pendants de argento deaurato." Comp. J. Coke, Provisoris Magn. Garderob. temp. Edw. III. It often occurs in the wardrobe-accounts for furnishing tournaments. Du Cange says, that this was a fine cloth manufactured in Tartary. Gloss. in V. Tartarium. But Skinner derives it from Tortona in the Milanese, and cites Stat. 4. Hen. VIII. c. vi. Hist. of Eng. Poetry, i. 364. Among the goods bequeathed by Eleanor Bohun, duchess of Gloucester, who |