61. #hond#: ha{m} T.

62. #makien grim chere#: comp. ‘niuelen ⁊ makien sure ⁊ grimme chere,’

AR 240/4; ‘makeð hire ueire cheres,’ id. 218/11. M has ‘q{u}i{a} p{rius}

discu{n}t officiu{m} suu{m} · ut facia[n]t horribilem’ [uultum].

63. #skirmeð#: Master Walter Leskirmissour, who performed before Edward

the First at Whitsuntide 1306, was, no doubt, an artist of this sort. A

picture of one who is keeping three knives and three balls going in the

air may be seen reproduced in Strutt, Horda Angelcynnan, i. plate 19.

#⁊#: BC omit.

64. #warpere#: so C; worpere N; cast{er}e T. M has ‘Iracu{n}dus coram

diabolo pu{n}g{na}t ut pugil · cu{m} cultellus est p{ro}tector

cultelloru{m}’; his original had probably cultellis, and projector;

possibly protector represents a mistake, warde, or wardere.

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