mete

To fede hem-selve[23] with-oute suche _outerage_,

_With mete that trewe feeldes_[24] have arrayed;

_With acorne[s] thaire hunger_ was alayed,

For I had red of African beforn,

That made me to mete that he stood there;

But thus seyde he, 'thou hast thee so wel born

they wyll not ryse after the bowe, therfore a fedder is onely

mete, bycause it onelye wyl do bothe. Nowe to looke on

the fedders of all maner of birdes, you shal se some so lowe

The coming of eccentric orbs;

To mete the dust the sky absorbs,

To weigh the sun, and fix the hour each planet dips.

_He bids ye mete him at Permanscore_.--P. 98. v. 1.