v. 485. _knokylbonyarde_] Compare Palsgrave’s _Acolastus_, 1540; “Do I raygne here on this facion, being a swynherde amongest swyne of Boeatia. i. amongest a meyny of iacke holde my staues, or _knockyldeboynyardes_, beinge but of late a kynge,” &c. Sig. Y iiii.; and Heywood’s _Dialogue_, &c.,— “He is a _knuckilbonyard_ very meete To match a minion neither fayre nor sweete.” Sig. D 4.,—_Workes_, ed. 1598. v. 486. _to_] i. e. too. v. 488. _warke_] i. e. work, business, matter. v. 489. _yarke_] i. e. strike, lash. v. 490. _custrell_] “_Coustrell_ that wayteth on a speare _covsteillier_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xxvii. (Table of Subst.). “_Coustillier_: An Esquire of the body; an Armour-bearer unto a Knight; the servant of a man at Armes; also, a groom of a stable, a horse-keeper.” Cotgrave’s _Dict._ v. 492. _this_] i. e. thus; see note, p. 86. v. 38 (and so in the next line). —— _freers_] i. e. friars. —— _famine_] “_Famen_, sermo, verbum.” Du Cange’s _Gloss._ v. 506. _By God, I haue bene about a praty pronge_]—_praty_, i. e. pretty: in the present line at least, _pronge_ seems to mean—prank (Dutch _pronk_), whatever be its signification in the following passage of our author’s _Colyn Cloute_; “And howe at _a pronge_ We tourne ryght into wronge.” v. 1196. vol. i. 357. Page 242. v. 510. _pagent_] i. e. part: see notes, p. 88. v. 85; p. 189. v. 190. v. 512. _by lakyn_] See note on v. 341. p. 240. v. 513. _heyre parent_] i. e. heir apparent. v. 514. _rome_] i. e. room, place. v. 516. _to_] i. e. too. v. 518. _Cockys harte_] i. e. God’s heart (_Cock_, a corruption of _God_). v. 521. _thee_] i. e. thrive. v. 526. _hyght_] i. e. am called. v. 529. _large_] A play on the meanings of the word,—big, and liberal. Page 242. v. 533. _cofer kay_] i. e. coffer-key. v. 535. _auowe_] i. e. vow: see note, p. 109. v. 199. Page 243. v. 539. _alowde_] i. e. approved. v. 554. _in same_] i. e. in the same place (a pleonasm,—since “_togyder_” precedes). v. 561. _Can_] i. e. Know. v. 562. _spedde_] i. e. versed. v. 564. _iapes_] i. e. jests, jokes. v. 568. _ouerwharte_] i. e. overthwart—cross, perverse, wrangling. v. 569. _beshrowe_] i. e. curse. v. 571. _iangle_] i. e. babble, chatter. Page 244. v. 573. _Ye_] i. e. Yea. v. 575. _my botes and my spores_] i. e. my boots and my spurs. v. 578. _Cockes woundes_] i. e. God’s wounds; see note on v. 518, preceding page. v. 580. _loketh_] i. e. looketh. v. 585. _iurde hayte_] Words (French perhaps) which I do not understand. v. 591. _quod_] i. e. quoth. v. 592. _a leysshe of ratches to renne an hare_] i. e. a leash of—three—hounds to run a hare. v. 597. _prece_] i. e. press. Page 245. v. 609. _to_] i. e. too. v. 625. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary. v. 628. _do togyder_] i. e. put it together. v. 629. _ony_] i. e. any. v. 633. _wonne_] i. e. dwell.