v. 1009. _a hole mese_] i. e. a whole mess, set.
v. 1011. _I rede, we sease_] i. e. I advise that we cease.
v. 1012. _farly ... lokys_] i. e. strangely ... looks.
v. 1013. _becke ... crokys_] i. e. beak ... crooks.
v. 1014. _tenter hokys_] i. e. tenter-hooks.
v. 1018. _The deuyll spede whyt_] So again in our author’s _Why come ye nat to Courte_;
“For as for wytte, _The deuyll spede whitte!_”
Page 258. v. 1020. _to_] i. e. too (as in the next two lines).
v. 1027. _a pere_] i. e. a pear,—used frequently by our early writers for a thing of no value. “Vayne glory of the world, the whiche is not worth _a pere_.” _Morte d’Arthur_, B. xv. cap. vi. vol. ii. 254. ed. Southey.
v. 1030. _And I may tende_] i. e. If I may attend.
v. 1035. _Fansy seruyce_] i. e. Fancy-service.
v. 1040. _Make a wyndmyll of a mat_] Compare v. 2 of our author’s third set of verses _Against venemous Tongues_, vol. i. 132.
Page 259. v. 1049. _blunder_] See note on v. 405. p. 241.
—— _blother_] i. e. gabble; as in our author’s _Colyn Cloute_, v. 66. vol. i. 313.
v. 1054. _this_] i. e. thus: see note, p. 86. v. 38.
—— _I befole thy face_] See note on v. 885. p. 250.
v. 1058. _a foles case_] i. e. a fool’s habit.
v. 1059. _glede_] i. e. kite. Nares, _Gloss._ in v., observes that in the common version of the Bible, _Deut._ xiv. 13, the _glede_ and _kite_ are erroneously mentioned together as two distinct birds.
v. 1061. _thy lyppes hange in thyne eye_] So in _Thenterlude of Youth_, n. d.;
“Faine of him I wolde haue a sight But my _lyppes hange in my lyght_.”
See too Heywood’s _Dialogue_, &c. sig. F 4,—_Workes_, ed. 1598.
v. 1066. _pylde_] i. e. bald—mangy: see note, p. 184. v. 68.
v. 1069. _Mackemurre_] A proper name, though not printed as such in the old copy:
“The great Onele, and _Makmurre_ also, And al the lordes and kynges of Ireland.”
Hardyng’s _Chronicle_, fol. cxlix. ed. 1543.
v. 1070. _budge furre_] “_Budge_ or Lambes furre.” Minsheu’s _Guide into Tongues_. In an order respecting the scholastic habit in the University of Cambridge, dated 1414, (quoted by Todd from Farmer’s papers, in a note on Milton’s _Comus_, v. 707,) mention is made of “_furruris buggeis_ aut agninis.”
Page 260. v. 1073. _thou wylte coughe me a dawe_]—_dawe_, i. e. simpleton; see note, p. 113. v. 301. So in the fourth line after this, “ye shall _coughe me a fole_:” and in Lilly’s _Mother Bombie_, 1594; “I know hee will cough for anger that I yeeld not, but he shall _cough mee a foole_ for his labour.” Sig. B 2.