v. 162. _a tyd_] i. e. betime. v. 164. _Haruy Haftar_] See note, p. 107. v. 138. v. 166. _xulde_] i. e. should. v. 170. _hay ... ray_] Names of dances, the latter less frequently mentioned than the former: “I can daunce _the raye_, I can both pipe and sing.” Barclay’s _First Egloge_, sig. A ii. ed. 1570. v. 171. _fonde_] i. e. foolish. v. 173. _lewdenes_] i. e. ignorance, baseness, worthlessness. v. 176. _spynt_] i. e. spent, employed. v. 180. _I xall thé aquyte_] i. e. I shall requite thee. AGAINST VENEMOUS TONGUES. Page 132. _Psalm cxlij._] _Vulg._ cxix. 3. _Psal. lxvii._] _Vulg._ li. 7. v. 4. _Hoyning_] “_Hoigner._ To grumble, mutter, murmure; to repine; also, to whyne as a child or dog.” Cotgrave’s _Dict._ “_Hoi_, a word vsed in driuing hogges,” says Minsheu; who proceeds to derive it “a Gr. κοΐ, quod est imitatio vocis porcellorum.” _Guide into Tongues_. —— _groynis_] See note, p. 180. v. 2. —— _wrotes_] i. e. roots. Page 132. v. 2. _made ... a windmil of an olde mat_] The same expression occurs again in our author’s _Magnyfycence_, v. 1040. vol. i. 258. v. 4. _commaunde_] i. e. commend. —— _Cok wat_] See note, p. 108. v. 173. Page 133. v. 2. _lack_] i. e. fault, blame. v. 3. _In your crosse rowe nor Christ crosse you spede_]—_crosse rowe_, i. e. alphabet; so called, it is commonly said, because a cross was prefixed to it, or perhaps because it was written in the form of a cross. See Nares’s _Gloss._ in v. _Christ-cross_. _Christ crosse you spede_ alludes to some other elementary form of instruction: “How long agoo lerned ye _Crist crosse me spede_?” Lydgate’s _Prohemy of a mariage_, &c.,—_MS. Harl._ 372. fol. 50. and see title of a poem cited p. 167. v. 296. v. 7. _cognisaunce_] i. e. badge. v. 1. _scole_] i. e. school, teaching. —— _haute_] i. e. high, lofty. v. 2. _faute_] i. e. fault. v. 2. _faitours_] Has been explained before (see p. 91. v. 172)—deceivers, dissemblers; and is rendered by Tyrwhitt (_Gloss._ to Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_), lazy, idle fellows; but here the word seems to be used as a general term of reproach,—scoundrels. —— _half straught_] i. e. half in their senses. v. 4. _liddrous_] See note, p. 193. v. 146. —— _lewde_] i. e. ignorant, vile. v. 3. _vale of bonet of their proude sayle_]—_vale_, i. e. lower: _bonet_ means a small sail attached to the larger sails. v. 4. _ill hayle_] See note, p. 176. v. 617. Page 134. v. 4. _vntayde_] i. e. untied, loose. —— _renning_] i. e. running. v. 7. _lewdly alowed_] i. e., perhaps, ignorantly approved of. v. 9. _vertibilite_] i. e. variableness. v. 10. _folabilite_] i. e. folly. v. 12. _coarte_] i. e. coarct, constrain. v. 13. _hay the gy of thre_] Perhaps an allusion to the dance called _heydeguies_ (a word variously spelt). v. 2. _Pharaotis_] i. e. (I suppose) Pharaoh. v. 1. _vnhappy_] i. e. mischievous. Page 135. v. 2. _atame_] i. e. tame. v. 1. _tratlers_] i. e. prattlers, tattlers.