[545] Cf. III. iv, 7, 8. [546] lubber or lout. [547] C. adds the rhyme: 'though I die.' [548] See Appendix _F_. [549] simple, timid. [550] R. 'thous' Custance now! [551] Cf. v. 102 'passion'; 'pashe,' IV. vii, 51; IV. viii, 52. [552] A. reads 'mowe,' C. 'inowe.' [553] Cf. Cotgr., _Tressault_: A start ... also, a leap. [554] Cf. I. ii, 140. [555] Cf. II, iii. 17; III. iv, 85. [556] Think of it. [557] Sherwood, To appall: _Esmayer_, _descourager_. [558] once for all. [559] breme, brim, furious; cf. V. 34. [560] So in E. C. reads correctly 'the'; but A. has 'yat,' and M. 'that.' [561] The names of the speakers in vv. 10 and 11 are by mistake in inverse order in E. [562] 'mockage' is neither English nor French. Palsgr., Cotgr., etc., do not have it; Halliwell quotes it from "Collier's _Old Ballads_ 48; Harrison, 235." [563] See II. iii, 32. [564] Cf. the figure of Crafty Conueyaunce in Skelton's _Magnyfycence_. [565] the 'Cotswold lyon' is the 'sheepe' of v. 29; cf. Heywood, _Prov._ I. ch. ii (78): 'as fierce as a Lion of Cotsolde'; _Thersites_ (Dodsley 1, 403), etc. [566] line, array. [567] Cf. Palsg. 695: assemble in routes, styrre about. [568] H. changes 'and' into 'as.' [569] Cf. 'chieve, 'low. [570] intercede. [571] Jocose formation; probably a "collock," a (kitchen) pail (_North-Engl._ acc. to Halliwell). A large pail generally with an erect handle in Yorks, Lancash., etc. (Wright, _Dial. Dict._). Cf. Heywood, _Prov._ 2, ch. 7, "give you a _recumbentibus_." If this fine Latin ending was a school-joke it would be of chronological importance. [572] Stupefied; cf. Pilsgr. p. 421. [573] for security; see _Robyn Hode_, st. 63; _Cock Lorels Bote_, etc. [574] T. in addressing the 'Miles' goes on with his military jargon. In E. this line is assigned to Royster, and the next two lines from '_But_' to 'befall' to T. Trustie. [575] By the mass! [576] IV. viii, Cf. Plaut. _Miles_, v. 1394 _seq._ [577] E. has 'you.' [578] the 'goose' would produce the same effect as the 'snail' in _Thersites_. [579] Heywood, _Prov._ 1, ch. 5 (21): "thus be I by this once _le senior de graunde_, | many that commaund me, I shall commaunde." [580] Cf. _Mil. Glor._ 1406. [581] Heywood's _Prov._ 2, ch. 8; _ib._ 1, ch. 2; Camden, _Prov._ 270; Ray, etc. [582] See the complete oath, III. iv, 127. [583] masculine, furious. [584] See Child's _Ballads, Index_; Flügel's _Lesebuch_, 440. [585] Gog's bones, _G. G. N. passim_. [586] E. has the stage direction: _Exeant om_ [587] The _Exeat_ in E. stands at the end of 61. [588] natural disposition. [589] make proof of; cf. Palsgr. p. 762. [590] Cf. Plaut. _Miles_, v. 957 (IV. i, 11). [591] straightway, therefore. [592] Note the rhyme. [593] Cf. Sherwood, s.v.: ... 'rude,' 'simple,' 'vil,' etc. [594] Note the rhyme. [595] Cf. stablishe, etc. [596] E. and A. have an interrogation mark. [597] Adulteress. [598] E., 'here were ye wished to haue.' [599] Nom.-vocative; cf. V. vi, 37.