Note E321 — 51.
Reading edition
"The Fawy riseth in Fawy moore in a verie quaue mire, on the side of an hill."—Harrison, ed. 1587, Bk. i. c. 12.
Cf. "The wal wagged and clef, and al the worlde quaved." —Piers Plowman, ed. Skeat, B Text, Passus xviii. 61.
"Quave of a myre (quaue as of a myre), Labina. Quavyn, as myre, Tremo."—Prompt. Parv. Horman, in his chapter de re edificatoriâ, observes that "a quauery or a maris and unstable foundation must be holpe with great pylys of alder rammed downe, and with a frame of tymbre called a crossaundre (fistucâ)." In Caxton's Mirrour of the World, Part II. c. 22, it is said, "understande ye how the erthe quaueth and shaketh, that somme peple calle an erthe quaue, by cause they fele the erthe meue and quaue vnder their feet." "Quaue myre, foundriere crouliere."—Palsgrave. Forby gives Quavery-mavery = undecided, hesitating.—Way, Note in Prompt. Parv., s.v. Quave.