103. MS. Sh. 'As any man can er may on lyue'; ed. 1561 and MS. Ph.
have--'As any man can or maye on liue.' It is clear that a final word has
been dropped, because the scribe thought the line ought to rime with _fyve_
(l. 98). The dropped word is clearly _here_, which rimes with _manere_ in
the Miller's Prologue, and elsewhere. After _here_ was dropped, _man_ was
awkwardly inserted, to fill up the line. Ch. employs _here_ at the end of a
line more than thirty times; cf. Kn. Tale, A 1260, 1670, 1711, 1819, &c.
107, 108. Cf. Anelida, 247, 248.