Page 265. v. 1230. _cayser_] See note on v. 796. p. 247. v. 1232. _scoles_] i. e. schools,—teaching. v. 1234. _Ye_] i. e. Yea. v. 1241. _renneth_] i. e. runneth. v. 1242. _thefte and bryboury_]—_bryboury_, i. e. pilfering. “_Brybery_ or bribe. Manticulum.”—“_Briboure_. Manticulus.”—“_Bryben._ Latricino. Manticulo.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. “I _Bribe_ I pull I pyll, _Ie bribe_. _Romant_, _ie derobbe_, ... and _ie emble_ ... He _bribeth_ and he polleth and he gothe to worke: _Il bribe_,” &c. Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. clxxiiii. (Table of Verbes). “_Bribors_, Cometh of the French _Bribeur_, i. e. Mendicus: It seemeth in a legal Signification one that pilfereth other Mens Goods, as Cloaths out of a Window, or the like. _Anno 28 Ed. 2. Stat. 1. cap. unico._” Cowel’s _Law Dictionary, or The Interpreter_, &c. _augmented and improved_, &c. ed. 1727. So again our author; “Thefte also and pety _brybery_.” v. 1370 of the present drama. “Some haue a name for thefte and _brybery_.” _Garlande of Laurell_, v. 183. vol. i. 369. So too in _The Hye Way to the Spyttell Hous_, by Copland, n. d.; “_Brybe_, and conuey, fro mayster and maystres.” Utterson’s _Early Pop. Poet._ ii. 37. and in _Gentylnes and Nobylyte_, n. d. (attributed without reason to Heywood); “For _brybe_ and stele euery thyng they wyll If they may secretly come theruntyll.” Sig. B iii. Other passages might be cited from various poets. And see Tyrwhitt’s _Gloss._ to Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_, and Richardson’s _Dict._ v. 1244. _a nysot_] In _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499 is “_Anysot_ or a folt. Stolidus. Baburrus. Insons.” But in the present passage _nysot_ seems, from the context, to be equivalent to—lazy jade: and in the work just cited we find “_Nyce_. Iners.”—“_Nycehede_ or _nycete_. Inercia.” Page 265. v. 1246. _warke_] i. e. work. v. 1247. _lyther_] i. e. wicked, evil. v. 1249. _Bytwene the tappet and the wall_]—_tappet_, i. e. tapestry. This line has occurred before, in our author’s fourth poem _Against Garnesche_, v. 75. vol. i. 128. v. 1252. _ony_] i. e. any. v. 1254. _sorte_] i. e. set, company,—people. v. 1257. _ferre_] i. e. far. Page 266. v. 1258. _dawys_] i. e. simpletons: see note, p. 113. v. 301. v. 1261. _He frownyth fyersly, brymly browde,_ _The knaue wolde make it koy, and he cowde_] —_fyersly_ and _brymly_ are nearly synonymous: _make it koy_ means here—affect (not merely reserve, but) haughtiness;—and so in our author’s _Bowge of Courte_,— “He bote the lyppe, he loked passynge _coye_.” v. 288. vol. i. 41. v. 1265. _besy_] i. e. busy. v. 1270. _quod_] i. e. quoth. v. 1275. _lese moche_] i. e. lose much. v. 1278. _mo_] i. e. more. v. 1280. _scolys_] i. e. schools. v. 1281. _folys_] i. e. fools. v. 1282. _lyther_] i. e. wicked,—rascals (as in the next line but one—“these _lythers_”). v. 1283. _Symkyn Tytyuell_] See note on _Colyn Cloute_, v. 418. v. 1284. _lere_] i. e. learn.