Totes les houres q'il dormoit,
Vne flambe de lui issoit.
Par la bouche li venoit fors,
Si grant chalur auoit el cors.
La flambe rendoit tiel odour,
Onc ne sentit nul home meillour.
676. _And with thi chartre make (me) fre._ Instances of the manumission
of villains or slaves by charter may be found in Hickes, _Diss.
Epistol._ p. 12, Lye's Dict. _ad calc._, and Madox's _Formulare
Anglicanum_, p. 750. The practice was common in the Saxon times, and
existed so late as the reign of Henry VIII.
[694. _Wite he him onliue_, if he knows him (to be) alive.
701. It is evident that the words _and gate_ = and goats, must be
supplied. For the spelling _gate_, cf. _Pricke of Conscience_, ed.
Morris, l. 6134, where _gayte_ is used collectively as a plural.]