Whether Calais in France, or Cales (Cadiz) be alluded to, I know not.
—— _crosse_] See note on v. 363. p. 116.
v. 399. _renne_] i. e. run.
v. 401. _To wete yf Malkyn, my lemman, haue gete oughte_] i. e. To know
if Malkin, my mistress, has got aught:—whether _Malkin_ is the diminutive
of _Mal_ (Mary) has been disputed.
v. 406. _Bordews_] i. e. Bordeaux.
v. 408. _auenture_] i. e. adventure.
v. 411. _curtel_] i. e. curtal.
v. 412. _lege_] i. e. allege.
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.”
v. 563. vol. i. 113.
“_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. 418. _kyste_] i. e. cast.
v. 420. _sadde_] i. e. serious, earnest.
v. 423. _stede_] i. e. place.
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;
“_Sore_ might _hir agrise_.”
_Arthour and Merlin_, p. 34. ed. Abbotsf.
“Of his sweuen _sore him agros_.”
_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. 434. _Myscheue_] i. e. Mischief.
v. 436. _spone_] i. e. spoon.
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.
v. 438. _wrete_] i. e. writ.
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. 454. _clerke_] i. e. scholar.
v. 455. _in the deuylles date_] See note on v. 375. p. 116.
v. 456. _longe_] i. e. belong.
v. 457. _lewde_] i. e. wicked.
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.).
—— _home_] i. e. hum.
v. 470. _frere_] i. e. friar.
v. 471. _agayne_] i. e. against.
v. 476. _shall wene be hanged by the throte_] i. e. (I suppose) shall
think themselves hanged, &c.
v. 477. _a stoppynge oyster_] Compare Heywood;
“Herewithall his wife to make vp my mouth,
Not onely her husbands taunting tale auouth,
But thereto deuiseth to cast in my teeth
Checks and _choking oysters_.”
_Dialogue_, sig. E,—_Workes_, ed. 1598.
v. 477. _poke_] i. e. pouch.
v. 484. _teder_] i. e. toder, t’other.
v. 486. _dreuyll_] See note on v. 337, p. 113.
Page 48. v. 488. _on flote_] i. e. flowing, full.
v. 490. _hode_] i. e. hood.
v. 491. _but what this is ynowe_] i. e. but that this is enough.
Page 49. v. 502. _Sterte_] i. e. Started.
v. 504. _nobles_] i. e. the gold coins so called.
v. 508. _His hode all pounsed and garded_]—_hode_, i. e. hood: _pounsed_,
i. e. perforated, having small holes stamped or worked in it, by way of
ornament—_garded_, i. e. adorned with _gards_, facings.
v. 510. _quod_] i. e. quoth.
v. 513. _rounde_] i. e. whisper,—or, rather, mutter, for Skelton
(_Garlande of Laurell_, v. 250. vol. i. 372) and other poets make a
distinction between _whisper_ and _round_:
“Me lyste not now. whysper _nether rowne_.”
Lydgate’s _Storye of Thebes, Pars Prima_, sig. b vii. ed. 4to. n. d.
“Whisper _and rounde_ thinges ymagined falsly.”
Barclay’s _Ship of Fooles_, fol. 208. ed. 1570.
“They’re here with me already, whispering, _rounding_.”
Shakespeare’s _Winter’s Tale_, act i. sc. 2.
v. 521. _hafte_] See note on v. 138. p. 108.
v. 522. _payne_] i. e. difficulty.
Page 50. v. 525. _shrewes_] i. e. wicked, worthless fellows.
v. 527. _confetryd_] i. e. confederated.
v. 528. _lewde_] i. e. vile, rascally.
v. 529. _slee_] i. e. slay.
v. 530. _hente_] i. e. seized.
v. 536. _Syth_] i. e. Since.