_Paid_, beat, beaten. _Palmer._ A _palmer_ was, properly, a pilgrim who had visited the Holy Land, from the palm-branch or cross which he bore as a sign of such visitation: but it is probable that the distinction between _palmers_ and other _pilgrims_ was never much attended to in this country. The palmer in the text seems to be no more than a common beggar; as is, likewise, the one in the romance. _Partakers_, assistants, persons to take thy part. _Passe_, extent, bounds, limits, district; as the _Pas de Calais_. Copland’s edition reads _compas_. _Pauage_, _Pavag_, _Pavage_, _Pawage_, a toll or duty payable for the liberty of passing over the soil or territory of another: _paagium_, L. _Pay_, content, satisfaction, money. _Peces_, p. 32. _Pecocke_, _With pecocke well ydight_, handsomely dressed with peacock feathers. Thus Chaucer, describing his “_squire’s yeman_:” “A shefe of _peacocke arwes_ bright and kene, Under his belt he bare ful thriftely.” In a little treatise of “_The Hors, the Shepe, and the Ghoos_,” printed by Caxton, it is said— “Thurgh all the londe of Brutes Albyon For fetherd arowes as I reherce can _Ghoos_ is the best to make comparison Excepte fethers of _pecok_ and of _swan_.” _Pinder._ The _pinder_ is the _pounder_ or _pound-keeper_; the petty officer of a manor, whose duty it is to impound all strange cattle straying upon the common, &c. {396} _Plucke-buffet_, p. 75. _Polle_, pull. _Poke_, bag. _Preke_, prick, a piece of wood in the centre of the target. _Prese_, company. _Prest_, ready, ready to go. _Puding-pricks_, skewers that fasten the pudding-bag. _Pyne_, _Goddes pyne_, Christ’s passion or crucifixion. _Quequer_, quiver: Gocur, Saxon. _Queyt_, quit, recompense. _Qod_, quoth, says, said. _Raked_, walked apace. _Ray_, _Battle ray_, Battle-array. The same expression occurs in _The Tragicall History of Didaco and Violenta_, 1567: “To traverse forth his grounde, to place His troupes _in batayle ray_.” _Ray_, array, put in order. _Raye._ _Cloth of ray_ was cloth not coloured or dyed. It is mentioned in many old statutes in contradistinction to _cloth of colour_. See 17 E. 3. c. 1, 7 H. 4. c. 10, 11 H. 4. c. 6, 1 R. 3. c. 8. The “_reied or striped cloth_” (Stow’s _Survay_, 1598, p. 436, 430) must have been very different. _Reachles_, careless, regardless, unobservant. _Red_, clear. _Reuth_, pity, compassion. _Reve_, taken by force. _Reves_, bailiffs, receivers. _Ripe_, cleanse. _Riped_, cleansed. _Rod_, poles, perches. A rod, pole, or perch is usually sixteen feet and a half, but in Sherwood forest (according to Blount) it is 21 feet, the foot there being 18 inches. _Rode_, rood, cross. _Rung_, staff. _Ryall_, royal. _Ryalty_, royalty. _Ryghtwys_, righteous, just. _Sack_, a kind of Spanish wine, perhaps sherry, formerly much drank in this country; very different, at least, from the sweet (or canary) wine now so called. _Sair_, sore.