6831. _entremees._ Cotgrave has: '_Entremets_, certain choice dishes served
in between the courses at a feast.'
6834. 'For, when the great bag (of treasure) is empty, it comes right again
(i. e. is filled again) by my tricks.'
6838. Quoted in the Freres Tale, D 1451.
6861. _Bigyns_, Beguines; these were members of certain lay sisterhoods in
the Low Countries, from the twelfth century onwards.
6862. _palasyns_ (F. dames palasines), ladies connected with the court.
Allied to F. _palais_, palace; cf. E. _palatine_.
6875. _Ayens me_, in comparison with me.
6887-6922. See Matt. xxiii. 1-8.
6911. _burdens_, repeated from ll. 6902, 6907, is clearly wrong. Perhaps
read _borders_; F. 'philateres.'
6912. _hemmes_, borders of their garments, on which were phylacteries.
6948. _our alder dede_, the action of us all.
6952. _parceners_, partners; see _Partner_ in my Etym. Dict.
6964. See 2 Cor. vi. 10.
6971. 'I intermeddle with match-makings.' See my note to P. Plowman, C.
iii. 92 (B. ii. 87); and cf. Ch. Prol. A 212.