—— _gaudry_] i. e., perhaps, trickery. In the _Towneley Mysteries_, _gawde_, trick, occurs several times. v. 41. _Fanchyrche strete_] i. e. Fenchurch Street. v. 42. _lemmanns_] i. e. mistresses. v. 43. _Bas_] i. e. Kiss. —— _buttyng_] A term of endearment, which I do not understand. —— _praty_] i. e. pretty. v. 47. _Bowgy row_] i. e. Budge Row: “This Ward [Cordwainers Street Ward] beginneth in the East, on the West side of Walbrooke, and runneth West, thorow _Budge row_ (a street so called of the Budge Furr, and of Skinners dwelling there),” &c. Stow’s _Survey_, B. iii. 15. ed. 1720. v. 50. _mow_] i. e. mouth,—mock. Page 128. v. 54. _lust_] i. e. liking, inclination. v. 55. _broke_] i. e. badger. v. 56. _Gup, Syr Gy_] See notes, p. 99. v. 17. p. 184. v. 70. v. 57. _xulde_] i. e. should. v. 59. _herey_] i. e. hairy. v. 60. _on Goddes halfe_] See note, p. 174. v. 501. v. 61. _pray_] i. e. prey. v. 63. _auncetry_] i. e. ancestry. v. 66. _askry_] See notes, p. 145. v. 903. p. 152. v. 1358. v. 68. _Haroldis_] i. e. Heralds. v. 69. _Thow_] i. e. Though. v. 73. _brothells_] i. e. harlots. “_Brothell pailliarde putayn._” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xxii. (Table of Subst.). Page 128. v. 75. _Betweyn the tappett and the walle_] A line which occurs again in our author’s _Magnyfycence_, v. 1249. vol. i. 265: _tappett_, i. e. tapestry, hangings. v. 76. _Fusty bawdyas_] An expression used again by Skelton in his _Garlande of Laurell_; “Foo, _foisty bawdias_! sum smellid of the smoke.” v. 639. vol. i. 387. It occurs in the metrical tale _The Kyng and the Hermyt_; “When the coppe comys into the plas, Canst thou sey _fusty bandyas_, [_baudyas_] And think it in your thouht? And you schall here a totted frere Sey _stryke pantnere_, And in ye [the] cope leve ryht nouht.” _Brit. Bibliogr._ iv. 90. and several times after, in the same poem. v. 77. _harres_] Equivalent to—collection. Fr. _haras_, a stud. “_Haras_ of horse. Equicium.” _Prompt. Parv._,—_MS. Harl._ 221. v. 78. _clothe of Arres_] i. e. tapestry; so called from Arras in Artois, where the chief manufacture of such hangings was. v. 79. _eylythe_] i. e. aileth. —— _rebawde_] i. e. ribald. v. 82. _Auaunsid_] i. e. Advanced. v. 83. _hole_] i. e. whole. v. 85. _lorell_] See note, p. 183. v. 14. —— _to lewde_] i. e. too ignorant, vile. v. 86. _Lythe and lystyn_] i. e. Attend and listen—a sort of pleonastic expression common in our earliest poetry. —— _all bechrewde_] See note, p. 97. v. 28. Page 129. v. 88. _pointyd_] i. e. appointed. v. 89. _semyth_] i. e. beseemeth. —— _pyllyd pate_] See note, p. 184. v. 68. v. 91. _scryue_] i. e. write. v. 92. _cumys_] i. e. becomes. v. 93. _tumrelle_] i. e. tumbrel. v. 94. _melle_] i. e. meddle. v. 95. _The honor of Englande_] i. e. Henry the Eighth. v. 97. _wyl_] i. e. well; as afterwards in this poem. —— _parcele_] i. e. part, portion. v. 98. _yaue_] i. e. gave.