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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 bras." {The House of Fame.)

"Toke out his blacke trompe of bras, 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." (Romaunt 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,)