_Jupyter._ We nede no whyte our selfe any farther to bost, For our dedes declare us apparauntly. Not onely here on yerth, in every cost, But also above in the hevynly company, 1245 Our prudens hath made peace unyversally, Whyche thynge we sey, recordeth us as pryncypall God and governour of heven, yerth, and all. Now unto that heven we woll make retourne, When we be gloryfyed most tryumphantly, 1250 Also we woll all ye that on yerth sojourne, Syns cause gyveth cause to knowe us your lord onely, And nowe here to synge moste joyfully, Rejoycynge in us, and in meane tyme we shall Ascende into our trone celestyall. 1255 FINIS. Printed by W. Rastell. 1533. _Cum privilegio._ FOOTNOTES: [98] _I.e._ of the audience as representing mankind. [99] For use as a plural cf. l. 347 'besecheth,' 844 'ye doth.' [100] The dispensers respectively of frost, sunshine, wind, and rain. [101] placed on record. [102] powers, not 'pores.' [103] that which they have experienced. [104] conclusion. [105] _I.e._ some one in the audience. [106] Said to one of the attendants. [107] The phrase in alphabet-learning for a letter sounded by itself; cf. _Wily Beguiled_: "A _per se_ A" (Hawkins' Origin of English Drama, 3: 357. Oxford: 1772). [108] matters. [109] frieze. [110] sweeting, sweetheart. [111] separated. [112] impartial. [113] out of good fellowship. [114] the end. [115] equivalent to stanza. [116] clownish rascals. [117] Louvain. [118] In Herts. [119] Perhaps one of the numerous Barfords. [120] In Notts. [121] In Essex. [122] Tottenham. [123] In Suffolk. [124] Near Woolwich. [125] Witham, in Essex. [126] Bristol. [127] Possibly Gravelye near Baldock. [128] There is a parish of Buttsbury in Essex: 'ynge Gyngiang Jayberd' defies explanation. [129] Have given notice to the petitioners to appear. The 'cry' is supposed to have been made outside. [130] mastership. [131] the audience. [132] journeying. [133] rouse the game. [134] call off after a kill. [135] avail. [136] clyster, purge. [137] parson. [138] As the play was written before 1533, the clergy were still celibates, and this is only Mery-reporte's 'humour.' [139] immediately. [140] Explained by 'thynges wherof there is plente.' [141] available. [142] heard more, or others. [143] in the same rightness. [144] Scio (Chios). [145] Purlieus are technically the woods adjacent to a royal forest; a chase is an unenclosed part. [146] What on earth would it matter? [147] dispensed with, missed. [148] To give two pounds of wheat for grinding sixty-four. [149] wheel. [150] feeder of the mill. [151] axletree. [152] Jupiter's proclamation. [153] making rejoice. [154] too far at variance.