v. 501. _on Gods halfe_] i. e. “on God’s part, with God’s favour.” Tyrwhitt’s _Gloss._ to Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_. “_A goddes halfe: De par dieu._” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccccxxxvi. (Table of Aduerbes). Page 111. v. 503. _beshrew_] i. e. curse. v. 506. _lampatrams_] A word which I am unable to explain. v. 507. _shap_] i. e. pudendum: see Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xxvi. (Table of Subst.). So in a description of purgatory-punishments in the metrical legend of _Owayne Myles_; “And some were yn to _shappus_ And some were vp to the pappus.” _MS. Cott. Calig._ A ii. fol. 91. v. 512. _stert_] i. e. started. v. 515. _dant_] In Kilian’s _Dict._ is “_Dante. Ambubaia, mulier ignaua._” ed. 1605; and in _Gloss. to West. and Cumb. Dialect_, “_Dannet_, a ... woman of disreputable character:” but, for aught I know, the word in the text may have some very different signification. v. 516. _a gose and a gant_] Must mean here,—a goose and a gander: yet Skelton in _Phyllyp Sparowe_ mentions first “the gose and the _gander_,” and afterwards “the gaglynge _gaunte_:” see note, p. 130. v. 447. v. 517. _wesant_] i. e. weasand. v. 519. _olyfant_] i. e. elephant. v. 520. _bullyfant_] Another word which I do not understand. v. 522. _hedes_] i. e. heads. Page 112. v. 525. _ale pole_] i. e. pole, or stake, set up before an ale-house by way of sign. v. 535. _A strawe, sayde Bele, stande vtter_]—_stande vtter_, i. e. stand more out, back. “_Straw_, quod the thridde, ye ben lewed and nice.” Chaucer’s _Chanones Yemannes Tale_, v. 16393. ed. Tyr. “_Stonde vtter_ felowe where doest thou thy curtesy preue?” _The Worlde and the Chylde_, 1522. sig. B iv. v. 538. _sterte_] i. e. started. —— _fysgygge_] “_Trotiere_: A raumpe, _fisgig_, fisking huswife, raunging damsell, gadding or wandring flirt.” Cotgrave’s _Dict._ “_Fiz-gig_, a wild flirting wench.” _Dialect of Craven_, &c. v. 543. _gat_] i. e. got. v. 549. _quod_] i. e. quoth. —— _hyght_] i. e. called. v. 550. _bybyll_] i. e. drink, tipple. v. 553. _Wheywormed_] i. e. covered with _whey-worms_,—pimples from which a whey-like moisture exudes. Page 113. v. 555. _puscull_] i. e. pustule. v. 556. _muscull_] i. e. muscle,—the shell of which is frequently “scabbyd.” Page 113. v. 557. _noppy_] i. e. nappy. v. 558. _soppy_] i. e. sop. v. 560. _mote I hoppy_] i. e. may I have good hap. v. 561. _coleth_] i. e. cooleth. —— _croppy_] i. e. crop, stomach. v. 563. _Haue here is for me_] See note, p. 118. v. 413. v. 573. _defoyled_] i. e. defiled. v. 575. _sorte_] i. e. set, company. v. 582. _a pryckemedenty_] i. e. one affectedly nice, finical. v. 583. _Sat lyke a seynty,_ _And began to paynty_ _As thoughe she would faynty_] —_seynty_, i. e. saint: _paynty_, i. e. paint,—feign: _faynty_, i. e. faint. Compare our author’s _Colyn Cloute_; “That counterfaytes and _payntes_ As they were very _sayntes_.” v. 922. vol. i. 347.