14. Capel: horse; Gaelic, “capall;” French, “cheval;” Italian,
“cavallo,” from Latin, “caballus.”
15. Make a clerkes beard: cheat a scholar; French, “faire la
barbe;” and Boccaccio uses the proverb in the same sense.
16. “Gar” is Scotch for “cause;” some editions read, however,
“get us some”.