12. Hewe: domestic servant; from Anglo-Saxon, “hiwa.”
Tyrwhitt reads “false of holy hue;” but Mr Wright has properly
restored the reading adopted in the text.
13. Boren man: born; owing to January faith and loyalty
because born in his household.
14. Hippocras: spiced wine. Clarre: also a kind of spiced wine.
Vernage: a wine believed to have come from Crete, although its
name — Italian, “Vernaccia” — seems to be derived from
Verona.
15. Dan Constantine: a medical author who wrote about 1080;
his works were printed at Basle in 1536.