the reading in some Chaucer MSS., for which the Ellesmere and Hengwrt have com pa me in three words (others com pame, compaine, combame); explained by Dr. A. J. Ellis and Prof. Skeat as com ba me = ‘come kiss me’: see BA v.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Miller’s T., 523. As help me god, it wol nat be com pa me [v.r. combame]. I loue another, and elles I were to blame, Wel bet than thee.
