[254] This saint is not mentioned by the Bollandists; the name may be a contraction for one of the four St. Theodorics. [255] guess. [256] God's little wounds; cf. l. 648. [257] consult, question thee. [258] excessively. [259] the one. [260] The stands on which the 'board' of the table was fixed when needed. [261] This line is attributed in Rastell's edition to Johan, the next attribution being at l. 252, also to Johan. Lines 258, 259 are given to Tyb, ll. 260-262 to Johan, l. 263 _a_ to Johan, ll. 263 _b_-266 to Tyb. [262] 'I pray you,' etc., said to one of the spectators, whom she next pretends to mistrust, turning at l. 254 to another one. [263] dirtied. [264] Fix the board on the trestles, and that at once. [265] 263, etc. In the French _Farse of Pernet qui va au vin_ there are similar false starts and returnings, but in that case Pernet keeps coming back to watch his wife and her lover. [266] bald, shaven, not "bold." [267] shorn. [268] thought. [269] quarrel. [270] crying out, scolding. [271] Misprinted _stynk_. [272] Misprinted _though_. [273] Misprinted _me_. [274] Apparently a misprint for _she_; it was clearly to be provided by Tyb; cf. l. 618. [275] Cf. _Play of Wether_, l. 235. Udall's _R. D._, I. iv. 33, etc. [276] No provision seems to have been made for Margery and Anne sharing in the pie. [277] Cf. "nyfuls," _Play of the Wether_, l. 617. [278] Cf. l. 211. [279] salvation. [280] Cf. Pernet's: Vous irayje signer la table? Je scay bien le benedicite. [281] S. Modwena, an Irish virgin, who died A.D. 518. She is said to have been the patroness of Burton-upon-Trent, and Henry VIII.'s commissioners sent thence to London "the image of seint Moodwyn with her red kowe and hir staff, which wymen labouryng of child in those parties were very desirous to have with them to lean upon." [282] may I thrive. [283] for my backer. Cf. _R. D._ IV. vii. 75, IV. viii. 45. [284] worse. _Nicholas Udall_ ROISTER DOISTER _Edited with Critical Essay and Notes by Ewald Flügel, Ph.D., Professor in Stanford University_ CRITICAL ESSAY