Page 132. _Psalm cxlij._] _Vulg._ cxix. 3.
_Psal. lxvii._] _Vulg._ li. 7.
v. 4. _Hoyning_] “_Hoigner._ To grumble, mutter, murmure; to repine;
also, to whyne as a child or dog.” Cotgrave’s _Dict._ “_Hoi_, a word vsed
in driuing hogges,” says Minsheu; who proceeds to derive it “a Gr. κοΐ,
quod est imitatio vocis porcellorum.” _Guide into Tongues_.
—— _groynis_] See note, p. 180. v. 2.
—— _wrotes_] i. e. roots.
Page 132. v. 2. _made ... a windmil of an olde mat_] The same expression
occurs again in our author’s _Magnyfycence_, v. 1040. vol. i. 258.
v. 4. _commaunde_] i. e. commend.
—— _Cok wat_] See note, p. 108. v. 173.
Page 133. v. 2. _lack_] i. e. fault, blame.
v. 3. _In your crosse rowe nor Christ crosse you spede_]—_crosse rowe_,
i. e. alphabet; so called, it is commonly said, because a cross was
prefixed to it, or perhaps because it was written in the form of a cross.
See Nares’s _Gloss._ in v. _Christ-cross_. _Christ crosse you spede_
alludes to some other elementary form of instruction:
“How long agoo lerned ye _Crist crosse me spede_?”
Lydgate’s _Prohemy of a mariage_, &c.,—_MS. Harl._ 372. fol. 50.
and see title of a poem cited p. 167. v. 296.
v. 7. _cognisaunce_] i. e. badge.
v. 1. _scole_] i. e. school, teaching.
—— _haute_] i. e. high, lofty.
v. 2. _faute_] i. e. fault.
v. 2. _faitours_] Has been explained before (see p. 91. v.
172)—deceivers, dissemblers; and is rendered by Tyrwhitt (_Gloss._ to
Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_), lazy, idle fellows; but here the word seems to
be used as a general term of reproach,—scoundrels.
—— _half straught_] i. e. half in their senses.
v. 4. _liddrous_] See note, p. 193. v. 146.
—— _lewde_] i. e. ignorant, vile.
v. 3. _vale of bonet of their proude sayle_]—_vale_, i. e. lower: _bonet_
means a small sail attached to the larger sails.
v. 4. _ill hayle_] See note, p. 176. v. 617.
Page 134. v. 4. _vntayde_] i. e. untied, loose.
—— _renning_] i. e. running.
v. 7. _lewdly alowed_] i. e., perhaps, ignorantly approved of.
v. 9. _vertibilite_] i. e. variableness.
v. 10. _folabilite_] i. e. folly.
v. 12. _coarte_] i. e. coarct, constrain.
v. 13. _hay the gy of thre_] Perhaps an allusion to the dance called
_heydeguies_ (a word variously spelt).
v. 2. _Pharaotis_] i. e. (I suppose) Pharaoh.
v. 1. _vnhappy_] i. e. mischievous.
Page 135. v. 2. _atame_] i. e. tame.
v. 1. _tratlers_] i. e. prattlers, tattlers.
v. 3. _Scalis Malis_] i. e. Cadiz. “The tounes men of Caleis, or _Caleis
males_, sodainly rong their common bell,” &c. Hall’s _Chronicle_ (Hen.
viii.), fol. xiii. ed. 1548. “His fortunatest piece I esteem the taking
of _Cadiz Malez_.” _A Parallel of the Earl of Essex and the Duke of
Buckingham_,—_Reliquiæ Wottonianæ_, p. 177. ed. 1672.
Page 135. v. 4. _nut shalis_] i. e. nutshells.
v. 7. _ren_] i. e. run.
—— _lesinges_] i. e. falsehoods.
v. 8. _wrate suche a bil_] i. e. wrote such a letter.
v. 10. _ill apayed_] i. e. ill pleased, ill satisfied.
v. 1. _hight_] i. e. is called.
v. 2. _quight_] i. e. requite.
v. 5. _Although he made it neuer so tough_] The expression, _to make
it tough_, i. e. to make difficulties, occurs frequently, and with
several shades of meaning, in our early writers; see R. of Gloucester’s
_Chronicle_, p. 510. ed. Hearne, and the various passages cited in
Tyrwhitt’s _Gloss._ to Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_ in v. _Tough_. Palsgrave
has “I _Make it tough_ I make it coye as maydens do or persons that be
strange if they be asked a questyon.” _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530.
fol. ccxcii. (Table of Verbes).