v. 1143. _puddynges_] See note, p. 173. v. 443. —— _wortes_] Is here, I suppose, equivalent to—cabbages. v. 1147. _marmosete_] A kind of ape, or monkey. v. 1148. _iapes_] i. e. jests, jokes. Page 262. v. 1150. _pultre_] i. e. poultry, fowl. —— _catell_] i. e. beast. v. 1154. _rode_] i. e. rood, cross: see note, p. 206. v. 69. v. 1157. _nyfyls_] A word sufficiently explained by the context, and of frequent occurrence. So in _A Mery Play between Johan the Husbande, Tyb his Wyfe, and Syr Jhan the Preest_, 1533, attributed to Heywood; “By God, I wolde ye had harde the tryfyls, The toys, the mokkes, the fables, and the _nyfyls_, That I made thy husbande to beleve and thynke.” p. 21. reprint. v. 1158. _canest_] i. e. knowest. v. 1159. _mased_] i. e. bewildered, confounded. v. 1165. _It forseth not_] i. e. It matters not. v. 1168. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary. —— _sone_] i. e. soon. Page 263. v. 1172. _Ye_] i. e. Yea. v. 1175. _a farle freke_] i. e. a strange fellow: see notes, p. 109. v. 187; p. 178. v. 15. v. 1176. _play well at the hoddypeke_]—_hoddypeke_ is a common term of contempt or reproach (as in our author’s _Why come ye nat to Courte_, v. 326. vol. ii. 37), and is generally equivalent to—fool. The original meaning of the word is altogether uncertain. Steevens (note on _Gammer Gurtons Nedle_) explains it—hodmandod (shell-snail); and Nares (_Gloss._ in v.) is inclined to agree with him. In a passage of Dunbar’s _Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis_ (_Poems_, i. 51. ed. Laing), “_hud-pykis_” has been explained (on account of the context)—misers. In Cotgrave’s _Dict._ is “Noddy peke.” v. 1182. _ne reckys_] i. e. recks not. v. 1185. _mo folys_] i. e. more fools. v. 1189. _kesteryll_] A sort of base-bred hawk. v. 1190. _I wys_] i. e. truly, certainly (_i-wis_, adv.). —— _doteryll_] See note, p. 129. v. 409. v. 1191. _In a cote thou can play well the dyser_] “_Dysoure_. Bomolochus. Nugaculus.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. “_Dissar_ a scoffar _saigefol_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xxix. (Table of Subst.). “He can play the _desarde_ with a contrefet face properly. _Morionem_ scite representat.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. bb iiii. ed. 1530. “One that were skylled in the crafte of _dysours_ or skoffyng fellowes.” Palsgrave’s _Acolastus_, 1540. sig. H ii. v. 1195. _gatte_] i. e. got. v. 1200. _fon_] i. e. fool. Page 264. v. 1205. _do mastryes_] See note on v. 151. p. 238. v. 1206. _cocke wat_] See note, p. 108. v. 173. v. 1211. _rode_] i. e. rood, cross: see note, p. 206. v. 69. —— _semblaunt_] i. e. semblance. v. 1215. _lyste_] i. e. liest. v. 1216. _moght ... lyste_] i. e. moth ... list. v. 1220. _Johnn a Bonam_] One of the persons who figure in the old metrical tale, _The Hunttyng of the Hare_, is called “Jac of Bonam:” see Weber’s _Met. Rom._ iii. 279. v. 1223. _Shyt_] i. e. Shut. —— _dawe_] i. e. simpleton; see note, p. 113. v. 301.