83
- Beseching him to lene a certain
Of gold and he wold quite it him again." (The Chanone's Yemanne's Tale.) " Lene me a marke, quod he, but dayes three, And at my day I wol it quiten thee." (Ibid.) Mad. MAZED, •'Thyn help, quod Beryn; lewde fole, Thow art more then masid, Dres the to the shippis ward with thy crown yrasid." ( The Merchant's Second Tale.) Master. maister. •* Sire Knight (quod he) my maister and my lord, Now draweth cutte for that is min accord." (The Canterbury Tales,) "But at the last his maister him bethought, Upon a day whan he his paper sought." (The Coke's Tale.) " And afterward he said unto the Frere, Tel forth your tale min owen maister dere." (The Frere' s Prologue.) Merchant. MARCH ANT. '* Yit nethirles yf thy hert be so inly set, For to be a Marchaunt, for nothing woll I let." (The Merchant's Second Tale.)
- ' Though he be chapman or marchaunt,
And have of golde many besaunt." (The Romaunt of the Rose.) Merchandise. MARCHANDISE.
- 0f my marchandise, such as he to-fore had seyn."
(The Merchant's Second Tale.)
- ' Or that he wold bergeyn eny marchandise,
And right doith these marchandis in the same wise." (Ibid.)
