[Footnote 53: Snytyn a nese or a candyl. _Emungo, mungo._ Prompt. Parv. _Emungo_, to make cleane the nose. _Emunctio_, snuffyng or wypynge of the nose. Cooper. _Snuyt uw neus_, Blow your nose. Sewel, 1740; but _snuyven, ofte snuffen_, To Snuffe out the Snot or Filth out of ones Nose. Hexham, 1660. A learned friend, who in his bachelor days investigated some of the curiosities of London Life, informs me that the modern Cockney term is _sling_. In the dress-circle of the Bower Saloon, Stangate, admission 3d., he saw stuck up, four years ago, the notice, “_Gentlemen_ are requested not to _sling_,” and being philologically disposed, he asked the attendant the meaning of the word.] [Footnote 54: askew. _Doyle_, squint. Gloucestershire. Halliwell.] [Footnote 55: Codde, of mannys pryuyte (preuy membris). _Piga, mentula._ Promptorium Parvulorum.] [Footnote 56: Mowe or skorne, _Vangia vel valgia_. Catholicon, in P. P.] [Footnote 57: Ȝyxyñ _Singulcio_. Ȝyxynge _singultus_. P. P. To yexe, sobbe, or haue the hicket. _Singultio._ Baret. To yexe or sobbe, _Hicken_, To Hick, or to have the Hick-hock. Hexham.] [Footnote 58: ? shorewise, as shores. ‘Schore, undur settynge of a þynge þat wolde falle.’ P. Parv. Du. _Schooren_, To Under-prop. _Aller eschays_, To shale, stradle, goe crooked, or wide betweene the feet, or legs. Cotgrave.] [Footnote 59: Dutch _Schrobben_, To Rubb, to Scrape, to Scratch. Hexham.] [Footnote 60: Iettyn _verno_. P. Parv. Mr Way quotes from Palsgrave, “I _iette_, I make a countenaunce with my legges, _ie me iamboye_,” &c.; and from Cotgrave, “_Iamboyer_, to _iet_, or wantonly to go in and out with the legs,” &c.] [Footnote 61: grinding.] [Footnote 62: gnastyn (gnachyn) _Fremo, strideo_. Catholicon. Gnastyng of the tethe--_stridevr, grincement_. Palsg. Du. _gnisteren_, To Gnash, or Creake with the teeth. Hexham.] [Footnote 63: Short coats and tight trousers were a great offence to old writers accustomed to long nightgown clothes. Compare Chaucer’s complaint in the Canterbury Tales, The Parsones Tale, _De Superbiâ_, p. 193, col. 2, ed. Wright. “Upon that other syde, to speke of the horrible disordinat scantnes of clothing, as ben these cuttid sloppis or anslets, that thurgh her schortnes ne covereth not the schamful membre of man, to wickid entent. Alas! som men of hem schewen the schap and the boce of the horrible swollen membres, that semeth like to the maladies of hirnia, in the wrapping of here hose, and eek the buttokes of hem, that faren as it were the hinder part of a sche ape in the fulle of the moone.” The continuation of the passage is very curious. “Youre schort gownys thriftlesse” are also noted in the song in Harl. MS. 372. See Weste, _Booke of Demeanour_, l. 141, below.]