GREEN FRIARS (N92,_d_), no such order is known either to the highest living English authority on monastic orders, or to Helyot or Dugdale; _The Catholic Dictionary_ likewise makes no reference to Green Friars. And, in truth, having regard to the context, it seems tolerably certain that Medwall (a priest himself) was merely satirizing known abuses, with an eye perhaps on "Friar Tuck" and "Lincoln green": the "hedge-marriages" alluded to later (93,_c_) would also support this interpretation. GROGE, GROGED (N75,_d_), grudge, grudged: as _subs_ = discontent, ill-will, anger, unwillingness to benefit; as _verb_ = grieve, repine, murmur, raise objection, feel ill-will. "Perish they That _grudge_ one thought against your Majesty."--Shakespeare, _1 Henry VI._ iii. (1592), iii. 1. GROMWELL-SEED (R183,_b_), properly grey millet; here a slang term for money: see other volumes of this series. GROSSERY, "such other _grossery_" (R263,_d_), _i.e._ grossness, enormities, obscurity, with an eye on "grocery" (fr. O.F. _grossier_, one who sells by the gross, or wholesale). GRUTCH (_passim_), grudge: see Groge. GUBBINGS, "the _gubbings_ of booties and preys" (R183,_d_), properly the parings of haberdine, but also generic for fragments of any kind. GUISE, "good new _guise_ ... vicious _guise_," etc. (_passim_), generic for fashion, style, manner, mien, conduct. 'GYPTIAN, "the _'Gyptian_ thraldom" (R237,_c_), Egyptian. HA (_passim_), have. HAD, see Wist. HAFTER, "ye are but an _hafter_" (WS141,_c_), wrangler, caviller: also a generic reproach; here specifically a falterer, laggard. "Of ale he doth so stinke, That whether he go before, or behynde, Ye shall hym smell without the winde. For when he goeth to it, he is no _hafter_."--_Doctour Double Ale_, 216 (_c._ 1547). HAIK, HAKE (R191,_b_ and _c_; R219,_c_), "an exclamation, generally a signal of defiance" (Halliwell): cf. "hack" ("hawk") = to clear the throat. HAIR, see Hood. HALE, "What doth he after him _hale_" (R215,_d_), haul. HALED, see States. HALFPENNY, "your minds were all on your _halfpenny_" (R196,_d_), _i.e._ with an eye to the main chance, generally attentive, cautious, or prudent. The proverb is in Heywood (_Works_, E.E.D.S., II. 14,_c_; 174,_b_). "_Ri._: Dromio, looke heere, now is my hand on my _halfepeny_. _Half._: Thou liest, thou hast not a farthing to lay thy hands on."--Lyly, _Mother_ _Bombie_ (1594), ii. 1. "But the blinde [deafe] man, having his hand on another _halfe-penny_, said, What is that you say, sir? Hath the clocke strucken?"--_Notes_ _on Du Bartas_, _To the Reader_, 2nd page. HALSED, "his fair wife _halsed_ in a corner" (M28,_d_), embraced (_hals_ = neck): the special use of the word is singularly appropriate, as Mischief had just escaped the halsman (= executioner or jailer) himself.