151. _Take reward of_, have regard to.

154. _vileynsly_; an adv. formed from the adj. _vileyns_, base. See 652

below; &c.

156. See Prov. xi. 22. _groyn_, snout. 'Groyne of a swyne, _Rostrum

porcinum_'; Prompt. Parv. Cotgrave has:--'_Groin de porceau_, the snowt of

a Hog.' Florio's Ital. Dict. has:--'_Grugno_, the snout of a hog.' The Low

Lat. form is _grunnus_; we find--'_Grunnus, Anglice_ a gruyn, or a wrot';

Wright-Wülcker's Gloss. col. 587, l. 23. The A. S. word is _wr[=o]t_;

whence M. E. _wroten_, vb., as below.

159. This quotation is also given, in Latin, in Hampole's Pricke of

Conscience, l. 4671:--'Siue comedam, siue bibam, siue aliquid aliud faciam,

semper michi uidetur ilia tuba resonare in auribus meis, Surgite, mortui,

uenite ad iudicium.' It occurs still earlier, in the Gesta Romanorum, cap.

37. It is not really from Jerome, but occurs in the Regula Monachorum, in

S. Hieron. Opp. tom. v. App.; Paris, 1706. Cf. Lyndesay's Monarchè, book

iv. l. 5606.

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