v. 413. _haue here is myne hat to plege_] Marshe’s ed., as I have noticed _ad loc._, omits “is:” but compare our author’s _Elynour Rummyng_;
“_Haue here is_ for me, A cloute of London pynnes.”
“_Haue._ i. take the this torne or thredebare garment.” Palsgrave’s _Acolastus_, 1540. sig. U ii.
Page 46. v. 414. _rybaude_] i. e. ribald.
v. 425. _Me passynge sore myne herte than gan agryse_] For the reading of all the eds. “aryse,” I have ventured to substitute “agryse,” i. e. cause to shudder. Compare;
_Arthour and Merlin_, p. 34. ed. Abbotsf.
_Marie Maudelein_, p. 226,—Turnbull’s _Legendæ Catholicæ_ (from the Auchinleck MS.).
“The kinges _herte_ of pitee _gan agrise_.”
Chaucer’s _Man of Lawes Tale_, v. 5034. ed. Tyr.
“Swiche peines, that your _hertes_ might _agrise_.”
Chaucer’s _Freres Tale_, v. 7231. ed. Tyr.
v. 426. _I dempte and drede_] i. e. I deemed and dreaded.
v. 428. _Than in his hode, &c._]—_hode_, i. e. hood.—This passage is quoted by Warton, who observes, “There is also merit in the delineation of DISSIMULATION ... and it is not unlike Ariosto’s manner in imagining these allegorical personages.” _Hist. of E. P._ ii. 349. ed. 4to.
Page 46. v. 431. _coost_] i. e. coast, approach.
v. 433. _I sawe a knyfe hyd in his one sleue_]—_sleue_, i. e. sleeve.—This picture somewhat resembles that of False Semblant;
“But _in his sleue he gan to thring_ _A rasour sharpe_.”
Chaucer’s _Rom. of the Rose_,—_Workes_, fol. 141. ed. 1602.
v. 437. _to preue a dawe_] i. e. to prove, try a simpleton: see note on v. 301. p. 113.—Warton, who gives the other reading, “_to preye_ a dawe,” explains it—to catch a silly bird. Note on _Hist. of E. P._ ii. 349. ed. 4to.
Page 47. v. 440. _His hode was syde, his cope was roset graye_] i. e. His hood was long (or full), his cope was russet grey.
v. 445. _a connynge man ne dwelle maye_] i. e. a wise, a learned man may not dwell.
v. 448. _that nought can_] i. e. that knows nothing.
v. 455. _in the deuylles date_] See note on v. 375. p. 116.
v. 460. _herte brennynge_] i. e. heart-burning.
v. 464. _It is a worlde_] Equivalent to—It is a matter of wonder.
Page 48. v. 466. _A man can not wote where to be come_] i. e. A man cannot know whither to go: compare v. 228.
v. 467. _I wys_] i. e. truly, certainly (_i-wis_, adv.).