—— _buttyng_] A term of endearment, which I do not understand.
v. 47. _Bowgy row_] i. e. Budge Row: “This Ward [Cordwainers Street Ward] beginneth in the East, on the West side of Walbrooke, and runneth West, thorow _Budge row_ (a street so called of the Budge Furr, and of Skinners dwelling there),” &c. Stow’s _Survey_, B. iii. 15. ed. 1720.
Page 128. v. 54. _lust_] i. e. liking, inclination.
v. 56. _Gup, Syr Gy_] See notes, p. 99. v. 17. p. 184. v. 70.
v. 60. _on Goddes halfe_] See note, p. 174. v. 501.
v. 66. _askry_] See notes, p. 145. v. 903. p. 152. v. 1358.
v. 73. _brothells_] i. e. harlots. “_Brothell pailliarde putayn._” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xxii. (Table of Subst.).
Page 128. v. 75. _Betweyn the tappett and the walle_] A line which occurs again in our author’s _Magnyfycence_, v. 1249. vol. i. 265: _tappett_, i. e. tapestry, hangings.
v. 76. _Fusty bawdyas_] An expression used again by Skelton in his _Garlande of Laurell_;
“Foo, _foisty bawdias_! sum smellid of the smoke.”
It occurs in the metrical tale _The Kyng and the Hermyt_;
“When the coppe comys into the plas, Canst thou sey _fusty bandyas_, [_baudyas_] And think it in your thouht? And you schall here a totted frere Sey _stryke pantnere_, And in ye [the] cope leve ryht nouht.”
and several times after, in the same poem.
v. 77. _harres_] Equivalent to—collection. Fr. _haras_, a stud. “_Haras_ of horse. Equicium.” _Prompt. Parv._,—_MS. Harl._ 221.
v. 78. _clothe of Arres_] i. e. tapestry; so called from Arras in Artois, where the chief manufacture of such hangings was.
v. 85. _lorell_] See note, p. 183. v. 14.
v. 86. _Lythe and lystyn_] i. e. Attend and listen—a sort of pleonastic expression common in our earliest poetry.
—— _all bechrewde_] See note, p. 97. v. 28.
Page 129. v. 88. _pointyd_] i. e. appointed.
—— _pyllyd pate_] See note, p. 184. v. 68.
v. 95. _The honor of Englande_] i. e. Henry the Eighth.
v. 97. _wyl_] i. e. well; as afterwards in this poem.
Page 129. v. 101. _remorde_] Fr. “_Remordre._ To bite again; also, to carpe at, or find fault with.” Cotgrave’s _Dict._ The word is frequently used by Skelton (see, for instance, vol. i. 188, where he introduces it with other terms nearly synonymous,—“reprehending” and “rebukynge”).