herber,
That it inne groweth."
_Id._, vol. ii. p. 331.

There should not be any comma, or other stop, at body, because the sense
is--"The root of that stock is amid man's body."

Mr. Wright's Glossary refers to these last two instances as follows:

"_More_ (A.-S.) 330, 331., the main or larger part, body (?)"

At p. 334. we meet with the word again:

"On o _more_ thei growed."

And again, at p. 416.:

"And bite a-two the _mores_."

May I, in passing, venture to inquire of the editor on what authority he
explains _waselede_ (p. 476.) to be "the pret. of _waselen_ (A.-S.) to
become dirty, dirty oneself?"

"This Troilus withouten rede or lore,
As man that hath his joies eke forlore,
Was waiting on his lady evermore,
As she that was sothfast croppe and _more_,
Of all his lust or joyes here tofore."
Chaucer's _Troilus and Creseide_, b.v.

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Afterwards, in the same book, a few stanzas further on, he joins "crop"
and "root" together.

"Last of all, if these thinges auayle not the cure, I do commend
and allow above all the rest, that you take the iuyce of Celendine
rootes, making them cleane from the earth that doth vse to hang to
the _moores_."--_The Booke of Falconrie_, by George Turbervile,
1611, p. 236.

"Chiefely, if the _moare_ of vertue be not cropped, but dayly
rooted deepelyer."--_The Fyrste Booke of the Nobles or of
Nobilitye_, translated from Laurence Humfrey.

The next and last example from the "Second Booke" of this interesting
little volume I will quote more at large:

"Aristotle mencioneth in his Politikes an horrible othe vsed in
certaine states, consistinge of the regimente of fewe nobles, in
maner thus: I will hate the people, and to my power persecute them.
Which is the _croppe_ and _more_ of al sedition. Yet too much
practised in oure liues. But what cause is there why a noble man
should eyther despise the people? or hate them? or wrong them?
What? know they not, no tiranny maye bee trusty? Nor how yll
gard[=e] of c[=o]tinuance, feare is? Further, no more may nobilitie
misse the people, then in man's body, the heade, the hande. For of
trueth, the common people are the handes of the nobles, sith them
selues bee handlesse. They labour and sweate for them, with
tillinge, saylinge, running, toylinge: by sea, by l