PESON, "piss my _peson_" (M12,_c_), what _peson_ means is somewhat obscure. The recorded meanings are (1) = pl. of pease; (2) a staff-like instrument used for weighing purposes before scales were employed, and so, maybe, a staff. The context, however, would seem to suggest _peason_ as a shortened or popular name of the _peasecod doublet_, a long-breasted garment carried down to a long peak in front, having the lower part stiffly quilted and projecting. PESTEL, "a _pestel_ on him" (R199,_a_), _i.e._ a _pestilence_. PETTICOAT, "_have at thy petticoat_" (R270,_d_); cf. "I'll pay him o' th' _petticoat_."--_Misogonus_, Anon. Pl., 2 Ser. (E.E.D.S.), 157,_b_. "I dare jeopard a groat, If he may reach them, will have on the _petticoat_."--_Jacob_ _and Esau_, 2 Anon. Pl., 2 Ser. (E.E.D.S.), 77,_c_. PEW, "God give him an ill _pew_" (JE363,_c_), in original pue: a rare transferred usage of the common word = "station, situation, allotted place" (O.E.D.). "Ye lat me peyne here in a peynfull _pewe_, That is a place of grete doloures."--_Pety Job_ (_c._ 1400) 555, in 26 _Pol. Poems_, 139. PIE, "hands be in the _pie_" (R191,_d_), the modern "finger in the pie" is more modest; the present example is the earliest given in the _O.E.D._ PIKE, "_pike_ thee home" (WS157,_a_)--"they bad me _pike_ me home" (R256,_a_), walk, be off, get home. Mr. Magnus glosses the Respublica example, "pick." "He bad them then go _pyke_ them home."--_Ane_ _Ballat of Matrymonie_ (_c._ 1570) in Laing, _Pop. Poet._ _Scotland_, ii. 77. PIP, "God send them both the _pip_" (R215,_c_), properly a disease peculiar to poultry and the like, but frequently used jocosely by old writers for various diseases in human beings, specifically, however, of the pox. "I have a master: I wolld he had ye _pyppe_."--_Play Sacram_ (_c._ 1460), 525. PISS, see Rods. PLAIN, "did not ich _plain_ me to you?" (R229,_d_), complain, lament, bewail. "Erles & barons at ther first samnyng, For many maner resons _pleyned_ of the king." --_Robert de Brunne_, p. 312. PLAYERS (THE NAMES OF THE). The following references to Players' Names in this volume and the Play in which they occur may be of service. Abstinence (N); Abundance (IP); Actio (JE); Adulation (R); Avarice (R). Bodily Lust (N). Charity (N); Chastity (N); Colhazard (IP); Comfort (WS); Confidence (WS); Conscience (IP). Diligence (WS). Envy (N and IP); Eugenio (JE); Evil Counsel (JE); Experience (WS). Fame (WS); Favour (WS). Garcon (N); Gluttony (N); Good Occupation (N). Hance (WH); Health (WH); Honest Recreation (WS); Humility (N). Idleness (WS); Idleness (JE); Ill-Will (WH); Impatient Poverty (IP); Ingnorancy (WS); Innocency (N); Insolence (R); Instruction (WS); Irisdision (JE). Justicia (R).