spece

Noun

 * 1) * late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parson's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, section 25, line 407:
 * "enm"
 * "enm"

- And yet is ther a privee spece of Pryde, that waiteth first to be salewed er he wole salewe, al be he lasse worth than that other is, per-aventure; and eek he waiteth or desyreth to sitte, or elles to goon above him in the wey, or kisse pax, or been encensed, or goon to offring biforn his neighebore, [...]