v. 2135. _Cockes armes_] i. e. God’s arms: see note on v. 518, p. 243. v. 2138. _lurden_] See note on v. 423. p. 242. v. 2141. _largesse_] i. e. liberality. v. 2143. _conuenyent_] i. e. fit, suitable. Page 295. v. 2148. _poddynge prycke_] i. e. skewer that fastens the pudding-bag. v. 2150. _pot sharde_] i. e. potsherd. v. 2151. _the spence of a noble_] i. e. the expense or spending of a noble,—the gold coin so called. v. 2152. _c. s._ i. e. a hundred shillings. v. 2155. _occupyed_] Though our author, according to his occasionally pleonastic style, has in the next line but one, “_occupyed_ and vsyd,” the words are synonymous: see note, p. 86. v. 52. v. 2156. _Ye_] i. e. Yea. v. 2159. _retchlesse_] i. e. reckless. Page 285. v. 2162. _rynne_] i. e. run. v. 2164. _it shall not gretly skyll_] See note on v. 1615. p. 262. v. 2165. _spyll_] i. e. destroy. v. 2166. _some fall prechynge at the Toure Hyll_] So in _Thenterlude of Youth_, n. d.; “By our Lady he dyd promote the To make the _preche_ at the galowe tre.” Sig. B i. v. 2168. _nother they set by_] i. e. neither they value, regard. v. 2171. _lusty to loke on_] i. e. pleasant to look on. v. 2172. _nonnes_] i. e. nuns. —— _ryn_] i. e. run. v. 2173. _Freers_] i. e. Friars. —— _fayne_] i. e. glad, joyful. v. 2177. _rechate_] See note, p. 234. v. 215. Page 296. v. 2186. _brast_] i. e. burst. v. 2187. _spewe and cast_] One of Skelton’s pleonasms. v. 2188. _gotted ... to thy share_]—_gotted_, i. e. gotten. v. 2193. _ye_] i. e. yea. v. 2194. _to wed_] i. e. for a pawn, pledge. v. 2195. _a daggeswane_] i. e. a rough sort of coverlet. “_Dagswayne._ Lodex.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. “My bedde is couered with a _daggeswayne_ and a quylte ... _gausape_ ...”—“Some _daggeswaynes_ haue longe thrummes & iagges on bothe sydes: some but on one.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. g iii. ed. 1530. —— _ony_] i. e. any. v. 2196. _metely well_] _“Metely: Moyennement. Assez,”_ &c. Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccccxliii. (Table of Aduerbes). “He is _metely_ lerned. _Mediocriter_ doctus est.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. R viii. ed. 1530. v. 2197. _dele_] i. e. part, bit. v. 2198. _in the deuyls date_] See note, p. 116. v. 375. v. 2201. _the messe_] i. e. the Mass. Page 297. v. 2204. _hose_] i. e. breeches. v. 2207. _skelpe_] i. e. slap, strike: see Jamieson’s _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._ v. 2208. _loke_] i. e. look. v. 2209. _Cockes bones_] i. e. God’s bones: see note on v. 518. p. 243. —— _blysse_] See note on v. 1641. p. 263. v. 2210. _dynge the deuyll_]—_dynge_, i. e. strike, knock. So again in our author’s poem _Howe the douty Duke of Albany_, &c.; “And _the deuill downe dynge_.” v. 210. vol. ii. 74. Compare _The Droichis Part of the Play_, attributed to Dunbar; “That _dang the devill_, and gart him yowle.” Dunbar’s _Poems_, ii. 38. ed. Laing. Page 297. v. 2210. _holde_] i. e. holden, held. v. 2211. _rede_] i. e. advice.