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77 " Have here a light and loke on all these hlahey But oftin gan the hert to glad, and quake." {Troilus and Creseide.) Brass. BRAZ. " I found that on the wall there was Thus written on a table of hras.^ {The House of Fame.) " Toke out his blacke trompe of bi-as, That foulir then the devill was." (Ibid.) Bull. BULL. (The u pronounced as in dull, the same also in the word hulloclcs.) " For of the Pope I have the bull, I ne hold not my wittis dull." Busy. BESY. " The besy larke the messenger of day, Salewith in hire song the morwe gray." {Canterbury Tales.)

  • ♦ And while he besy was this fendly wretch,

This false chanon, the foule fend him fetch." {The Chanone^s Yeomannes Tale.) Busily. BESILY. " Gan I beholdin besily, And I wol tel you redily." {liomaunt of the Rose.) Carry. CART. " And said twise by Haint Mary, Thou art a noyous thinge to cary.^ Case. CAAS. "But if it be in certaine caas.^ (The House of Fame.) {Romaunt of the Rose.)

  • ' But thei would hatin you parcaas,

If that ye fillin in ther laas." {Ibid.) " That 'till a lover longith in this caas.^' {Troilus and Creseide.) " That ben his frendis in such manir caas.^ {Ibid.) " I tuck'd up, with arowes in ther caas.^^ (Legend of Dido,)