—— _Dauncaster cuttys_] i. e. Doncaster horses.—_Cut_ was a term for a common horse, from its having the tail cut short. v. 297. _bolte_] i. e. arrow (for a description of it, see Nares’s _Gloss._ in v.). —— _shote_] i. e. shoot. v. 298. _hyght_] i. e. be called. v. 300. _this checke if ye voyde canne_] “_Checke_ a mery taunt.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, fol. xxiii. (Table of Subst.). “I _Voyde_ a thyng out of the way or out of syght, _Ie oste_.” _Id._ fol. ccclxxxxix. (Table of Verbes). v. 301. _to longe to scole_] i. e. too long to school. v. 302. _gose_] i. e. goose. v. 303. _pole_] i. e. pool, water. v. 304. _fole_] i. e. fool. v. 306. _Go, shake the dogge, hay_] See note, p. 226. v. 28. v. 310. _to play with me checke mate_] In allusion to the king being put in _check_ at the game of chess. v. 311. _your noble estate_] Equivalent to—your noble lordship. v. 312. _recorde_] i. e. testimony. v. 314. _Sad_] i. e. Grave, serious, sober. v. 318. _hele_] i. e. health. v. 319. _commaunde_] i. e. commend. v. 321. _ony_] i. e. any. v. 322. _sone_] i. e. soon. v. 323. _kepe_] i. e. heed, care, attention. Page 236. v. 325. _after none_] i. e. afternoon. v. 327. _Whylest_] i. e. Until. v. 333. _mynde_] i. e. fancy. v. 336. _beholde_] i. e. beholden. v. 341. _By lakyn_] i. e. by our Lady: _lakyn_ is the contraction of _ladykyn_, little lady. v. 346. _Pountesse_] i. e. Pontoise. Page 236. v. 347. _taken me_] i. e. committed, consigned to me. Page 237. v. 355. _Ye_] i. e. Yea. v. 357. _They bare me in hande that I was a spye_] i. e. They accused me, laid to my charge, that, &c. “This false knight, that hath this treson wrought, _Bereth hire in hond_ that she hath don this thing.” Chaucer’s _Man of Lawes Tale_, v. 5039. ed. Tyr. “I _Beare in hande_ I threp vpon a man that he hath done a dede, or make hym byleue so, _Ie fais accroyre_” ... “What crime or yuell mayest thou _beare me in hande of: Quel crime ou mal me peulx tu mettre sus_.” Palgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. clxii. (Table of Verbes). “Many be _borne an hande_ of a faute, and punysshed therfore, that were neuer gylty. Plerique facinoris _insimulantur_,” &c. Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. m ii. ed. 1530. This expression occurs with a different shade of meaning in our author’s _Why come ye nat to Courte_,— “_He bereth the kyng on hand_, That he must pyll his lande,” &c. v. 449. vol. ii. 40. v. 362. _And wolde haue made me Freer Tucke,_ _To preche out of the pylery hole_] Friar Tuck was one of Robin Hood’s merry companions. Concerning these lines Ritson remarks that there is “an evident allusion to some game or practice now totally forgotten and inexplicable.” _Robin Hood_, i. xxvi. v. 364. _antetyme_] i. e. text. So in the absurd story of Skelton’s preaching, _Merie Tales_, (reprinted in Appendix to _Account of his Life and Writings_), “I say, as I said before in my _antethem, vos estis_.” _Tale vii_.