Note 46 — Chapter I
Reading edition
How close the resemblance is between the two works may be judged by the following quotations:
Par le gel nous avons glas, Et de glas vient verglas. (Nominale.) Pur le gel vous avomus glas, Et pluvye e gele fount vereglas. (Bibbesworth.)
And it is in words almost identical with those of Bibbesworth that the author describes the difference in the meaning of some words according to their gender:
La levere deit clore les dentz.
The lippe.
Le levere en boys se tient de deynz.
The hare.
La livre sert a marchauntz.
The pounde.
Le livere aprent nous enfauntz.
The boke.