v. 178. _Soche pelfry thou hast pachchyd_] I do not understand this line: _pelfry_ is, perhaps, pilfery; but does it not rather mean—petty goods,—which Garnesche had _pachchyd_, fraudulently got together? “Muche of theyr fishe they do barter with English men, for mele, lases, and shoes, and other _pelfery_.” Borde’s _Boke of knowledge_, sig. I, reprint. “Owt of whyche countre the sayd Scottys fled, and left mych corne, butters, and other _pylfre_, behinde theim, whyche the ost hade.” Letter from Gray to Crumwell, _State Papers_, iii. 155,—the Vocabulary to which renders _pylfre_, pillage—wrongly, I believe. v. 179. _houyr wachyd_] i. e. over watched. v. 180. _thou xuldyst be rachchyd_] i. e. thou shouldest be stretched—have thy neck stretched. So in _The Flytyng of Dunbar and Kennedy_ (see note, p. 177. v. 4); “For substance and geir thow hes _a widdy_ teuch On Mont Falcone, about _thy craig to rax_.” Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 79. ed. Laing. Page 125. v. 182. _be bedawyd_] Does it mean—be daunted? or, be called simple fellow? see note, p. 113. v. 301. v. 183. _fole_] i. e. fool. v. 184. _gronde_] i. e. ground. v. 186. _Syr Dalyrag_] So our author elsewhere; “Let syr Wrigwrag wrastell with _syr Delarag_.” _Speke, Parrot_, v. 91. vol. ii. 6. “Adue nowe, sir Wrig wrag, Adue, _sir Dalyrag_!” _Howe the douty Duke of Albany_, &c. v. 297. vol. ii. 76. v. 187. _brag_] i. e. proud, insolent. v. 189. _kyt_ ... _to large_] i. e. cut ... too large. v. 190. _Suche pollyng paiaunttis ye pley_] i. e. Such plundering pageants, thievish pranks, you play. The expression to “play a pageant”—to play a part,—has before occurred, see note, p. 88. v. 85. With the present passage compare: “This one _pageant_ hath stayned al other honest dedes ... _flagitium_.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. N v. ed. 1530. “That was a wyly _pageaunt_ ... _commentum_.” Id. sig. N vi. “Thou gatest no worshyp by this _pageant_ ... _facinore_.” _Id._ sig. P v. “He had thought to playe me a _pagent_: _Il me cuyda donner le bont._” _Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. cccxvii. (Table of Verbes). “A felowe which had renued many of Robin Hodes _Pagentes_.” Fabyan’s _Chron._ vol. ii. fol. 533. ed. 1559. “After he had _plaied_ all his troublesome _pageants_,” &c. Holinshed’s _Chron._ (Hen. viii.) vol. iii. 830. ed. 1587. v. 191. _poynt_] i. e. appoint, equip. —— _fresche_] i. e. smart. v. 192. _he_] i. e. Godfrey; see note on title of the second of these poems, p. 180. v. 193. _rowllys_] i. e. rolls. v. 194. _sowllys_] i. e. souls. v. 197. _That byrd ys nat honest_ _That fylythe hys owne nest_] —_fylythe_, i. e. defileth. This proverb occurs in _The Owl and the Nightingale_ (a poem of the 12th century), p. 4. Rox. ed. v. 199. _wyst what sum wotte_] i. e. knew what some know.