Note 92 — OF ORDERS AND CUSTOMS
Reading edition
Thus Lydgate, in his ballad of London Lackpenny:
“Then to the Chepe I began me drawne, Where much people I saw for to stande: One offered me velvet, sylke and lawne, An other he taketh me by the hande, ‘Here is Pary’s thred the fynest in the lande,’” etc.