[281] Equivalent to--poor, contemptible fellow: but I must leave the reader to determine the exact meaning of this term of reproach. As _pingle_ signifies a small croft, Nares (citing a passage from Lyly's "Euphues") says that _pingler_ is "probably a labouring horse, kept by a farmer in his homestead." "Gloss." in v.--In Brockett's "Gloss, of North Country Words" is "_Pingle_, to work assiduously but inefficiently,--to labour until you are almost blind." In Forby's "Vocab. of East Anglia" we find, "_Pingle_, to pick one's food, to eat squeamishly:" and in Moor's "Suffolk Words" is a similar explanation. See also Jamieson's "Et. Dict. of Scott. Lang." [282] So second edit. Not in first edit. [283] So second edit. First edit., _drinke_. [284] So second edit. First edit., _Nich_. [285] [This is probably intended to run into verse-- "For when a man doth to Rome come, He must do as there is done."] [286] [Old copies, _crush_.] [287] A form of _digest_, common in our early writers. [288] [This emendation was suggested by Dyce.] [289] [Old copies, _shape_.] [290] So second edit. First edit., _fathers_. [291] So second edit. First edit., _than_. [292] Edits., _Franke_. [293] [Old copies, _boye yee_.] [294] [Old copies, _love capable to_.] [295] So second edit. First edit., _Maister_. [296] Some word most probably has dropped out from the line. [Perhaps _not_.] [297] So second edit. First edit., _craft_. [298] A familiar term for the old English broadsword. [299] The sharp point in the centre of the buckler. [300] So second edit. First edit., _and_. [301] [Dyce proposed to read _ont_.] [302] i.e., Brave. [303] [Old copies, _strukst_.] [304] i.e., Manlike, masculine. [305] See note [218]. [306] i.e., The parson: _Sir_ was a title applied to clergymen. [307] See note [255]. [308] [A line appears to be lost here, probably ending with _selves_, as the whole dialogue is in rhyme.] [309] i.e., Forester. [310] Seems to be used here for herd; an unusual meaning of the word. [See Halliwell's "Diet." _v. Berry_, No. 3.] [311] So second edit. First edit. _me_. [312] So second edit. First edit. _th'_. [313] Edits. _he_. [314] So second edit. First edit. _thee_. [315] So second edit. First edit. _thorowly_. [316] See note [218]. [317] Swoon. [318] Read, for the metre, _she is_. [319] Edits., _wone_. [320] i.e., An _I_ of the Christ-cross row or alphabet. [321] A term of endearment, formed, perhaps, from _pink_, to wink, to contract the eyelids. [322] Edits., _sower_. [323] i.e., A good whip (_whipstock_ is properly the stock or handle of a whip). [324] A term of endearment, which often occurs in our early dramatists. [325] Edits., _patient_. [326] [Old copies, _thy_.] [327] So second edit. First edit., _cheesse_. [328] So second edit. First edit., _to_. [329] Read, for the metre, _Shee is_. [330] A recollection perhaps of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," act iii. sc. 5--