v. 2295. _queysy mete_] “_Quaisy_ as meate or drike is, _dangereux_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xciii. (Table of Adiect.). Compare _Jyl of Braintfords Testament_, n. d.; “I pray you fil you not to much of the _mutton_ I promise you that it is very _queisy_.” Sig. A. Page 300. v. 2297. _In fay_] i. e. In faith. —— _froty_] Is frequently, as here, used by our early writers for—_forty_. v. 2303. _at all assayes_] See note on v. 433. p. 242. Page 301. v. 2311. _sleeth_] i. e. slayeth. v. 2315. _bronde_] i. e. brand. v. 2316. _stonde_] i. e. stand. v. 2319. _lewdly_] i. e. vilely, basely (but here it seems to be used as an adjective). v. 2320. _to_] i. e. too. v. 2322. _fer_] i. e. far. v. 2324. _loke_] i. e. look. v. 2330. _agayne_] i. e. against. Page 302. v. 2332. _wyte_] i. e. blame. v. 2333. _rede_] i. e. counsel. v. 2335. _Ye_] i. e. Yea. —— _ryd thy selfe_] i. e. set free thyself,—despatch thyself. v. 2336. _to_] i. e. too. v. 2340. _honge_] i. e. hang. v. 2342. _tonge_] i. e. thong. v. 2343. _throte bole_] i. e. throat-bowl,—protuberance of the throat. “Throte gole or _throte bole_, _neu de la gorge_, _gosier_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxx. (Table of Subst.). In _Ortus Vocab._ fol. ed. W. de Worde, n. d. is “Epiglotum, _a throte bolle_.”—“It is not impossible,” says Warton, alluding to this passage, “that Despare [Myschefe] offering the knife and the halter, might give a distant hint to Spenser.” _Hist. of E. P._ (Em. and Ad. to p. 363 of vol. ii.) ed. 4to. See _The Faerie Queene_, i. ix. 50. —— _slee_] i. e. slay. v. 2351. _to_] i. e. too. v. 2352. _Out, harowe_]—_harowe_ (variously spelt) is common in our early poetry as an exclamation of alarm or sudden distress, or an outcry for help. “Interiectyons of outkrye: _Haro._ as Haro alarme _trahy trahy_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530, last folio. On the origin of the word see Du Cange’s _Gloss._ in vv. _Haro_, _Haroep_; Tyrwhitt’s note on v. 3286 of Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_; Jamieson’s _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._ in v. _Harro_; and Roquefort’s _Gloss. to La Lang. Rom._ in v. _Harau_. —— _hyll_] i. e. hell. v. 2353. _combred_] i. e. encumbered, troubled. v. 2354. _sloo_] i. e. slay. —— _nature and kynde_] A pleonastic expression. Page 303. v. 2357. _sautes_] i. e. assaults. v. 2361. _soner_] i. e. sooner. v. 2362. _luge_] i. e. (I suppose) lodge, abode. v. 2365. _wanhope_] i. e. want of hope,—despair. “Desperatio. _wanhope_.” _Ortus Vocab._ fol. ed. W. de Worde, n. d. “_Wanhope desespoir_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxxiii. (Table of Subst.). In some of our early writers, however, we find a distinction made between _wanhope_ and _despair_. v. 2370. _dysease_] i. e. uneasiness, pain. v. 2373. _ony_] i. e. any. v. 2375. _ne_] i. e. nor. v. 2383. _lectuary_] i. e. electuary. v. 2387. _gommes goostly_] i. e. gums ghostly, spiritual. —— _herte_] i. e. heart.