75. Tyrwhitt aptly quotes from Lydgate's Falls of Princes, fol. xxvi:--

'And oft it happeneth, he that hath best ron

Doth not the _spere_ like his desert possede.'

We must conclude that a _dart_ or _spear_ was the prize given (in some

games) to the best runner. That _dart_ here means 'prize,' appears from

another proof altogether. For in the margin of E. we here find a quotation

from Jerome, p. 26, which runs in a fuller form, thus:--'Proponit [Greek:

agônothetês] _praemium_, inuitat ad cursum, tenet in manu [294]

uirginitatis _brauium_, ... et clamitat, ... qui potest capere, capiat.'

The word _brauium_, i. e. prize in a race, is borrowed from the Vulgate, 1

Cor. ix. 24, where the Greek has [Greek: brabeion]. 'Catch who so may,' in

l. 76, represents 'qui potest capere, capiat.' Hence _cacche_ here means

'win.'

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