[229] The _New Eng. Dict._ quotes from Fuller's _Worthies_: "St.
Anthonie is notoriously known for the patron of hogs, having a pig for
his page in all pictures."
[230] God's.
[231] There are three Croomes in the manor of Ripple, Worcestershire,
and the church of Ripple is dedicated to the B. Virgin, but Nash's
_History of Worcestershire_, says nothing of "Our Lady of Crome."
[232] drag.
[233] hair.
[234] assuredly; text 'hardly.'
[235] hundred.
[236] the devil a bit.
[237] shall I not? For this curious elliptical construction cf. l. 624,
"And had ye no meate, Johan Johan? no had?" See also Udall's _R. D._,
I. iv. 32.
[238] God's.
[239] immediately.
[240] dust her jacket, beat her. To walk = to full cloth.
[241] This question must be answered.
[242] scold.
[243] cease.
[244] characteristic.
[245] avail.
[246] cudgel.
[247] remedy.
[248] wager 6_s._ 8_d._ Cf. Udall, _R. D._, I. iii. 27.
[249] the relation of a child's sponsors at baptism to his parents.
[250] go a "love"-making.
[251] fish salted so hard that it had to be softened by beating before
cooking.
[252] literally, cat-calling.
[253] Tyb's 'aside' perhaps only means "if he is not scolding nothing
can please him," i.e. he likes scolding better than anything else. But
Tyb is at present half-afraid, and it is at least possible that she
means "if I haven't set him scolding this time, no occasion for being
angry will content him."
[254] This saint is not mentioned by the Bollandists; the name may be a
contraction for one of the four St. Theodorics.
[255] guess.
[256] God's little wounds; cf. l. 648.
[257] consult, question thee.
[258] excessively.
[259] the one.
[260] The stands on which the 'board' of the table was fixed when
needed.
[261] This line is attributed in Rastell's edition to Johan, the next
attribution being at l. 252, also to Johan. Lines 258, 259 are given to
Tyb, ll. 260-262 to Johan, l. 263 _a_ to Johan, ll. 263 _b_-266 to Tyb.
[262] 'I pray you,' etc., said to one of the spectators, whom she next
pretends to mistrust, turning at l. 254 to another one.
[263] dirtied.
[264] Fix the board on the trestles, and that at once.
[265] 263, etc. In the French _Farse of Pernet qui va au vin_ there
are similar false starts and returnings, but in that case Pernet keeps
coming back to watch his wife and her lover.
[266] bald, shaven, not "bold."
[267] shorn.
[268] thought.
[269] quarrel.
[270] crying out, scolding.
[271] Misprinted _stynk_.
[272] Misprinted _though_.
[273] Misprinted _me_.
[274] Apparently a misprint for _she_; it was clearly to be provided by
Tyb; cf. l. 618.
[275] Cf. _Play of Wether_, l. 235. Udall's _R. D._, I. iv. 33, etc.
[276] No provision seems to have been made for Margery and Anne sharing
in the pie.
[277] Cf. "nyfuls," _Play of the Wether_, l. 617.
[278] Cf. l. 211.
[279] salvation.
[280] Cf. Pernet's:
Vous irayje signer la table?
Je scay bien le benedicite.
[281] S. Modwena, an Irish virgin, who died A.D. 518. She is said
to have been the patroness of Burton-upon-Trent, and Henry VIII.'s
commissioners sent thence to London "the image of seint Moodwyn with
her red kowe and hir staff, which wymen labouryng of child in those
parties were very desirous to have with them to lean upon."
[282] may I thrive.
[283] for my backer. Cf. _R. D._ IV. vii. 75, IV. viii. 45.
[284] worse.
_Nicholas Udall_