“WELCHMAN’S HOSE. Equivalent, I imagine, to the breeches of a Highlander, or the dress of a naked Pict; upon the presumption that Welchmen had no hose.” Nares’s _Gloss._ in v. Unfortunately, however, for this ingenious conjecture, the expression is found varied to “_shipman’s hose_,”—which certainly cannot be considered as a non-entity. “Hereunto they adde also a Similitude not very agreeable, how the Scriptures be like to a Nose of Waxe, or _a Shipmans Hose_: how thei may be fashioned, and plied al manner of waies, and serue al mennes turnes.” Jewel’s _Defence of the Apologie_, &c. p. 465. ed. 1567. “And not made as _a shippe mans hose_ to serue for euery legge.” Wilson’s _Arte of Rhetorike_, p. 102. ed. 1580. Surely _Welshman’s hose_ (as well as shipman’s) became proverbial from their pliability, power of being stretched, &c. v. 784. _broke_] i. e. brook. v. 785. _loke_] i. e. look. v. 786. _boke_] i. e. book. Page 342. v. 800. _the brode gatus_] Means perhaps, Broadgates Hall, Oxford, on the site of which Pembroke College was erected. v. 801. _Daupatus_] i. e. Simple-pate: see note, p. 113. v. 301. v. 803. _Dronhen as a mouse_] So Chaucer; “We faren as he that _dronke is as a mous_.” _The Knightes Tale_, v. 1263. ed. Tyr. v. 805. _his pyllyon and his cap_]—_pyllyon_, from Lat. _pileus_. Compare Barclay; “Mercury shall geue thee giftes manyfolde, His _pillion_, scepter, his winges, and his harpe.” _Fourth Egloge_, sig. C iiii. ed. 1570. and Cavendish’s _Life of Wolsey_; “and upon his head a round _pillion_, with a noble of black velvet set to the same in the inner side” [where surely we ought to read, “and upon his head a round _pillion_ of black velvet, with a noble set to the same in the inner side”]. p. 105. ed. 1827. Page 342. v. 811. _As wyse as Waltoms calfe_] So Heywood; “And thinke me _as wise as Waltams calfe_, to talke,” &c. _Dialogue_, &c. sig. F 3,—_Workes_, ed. 1598. Ray gives, “_As wise as Waltham’s calf_, that ran nine miles to suck a bull.” _Proverbs_, p. 220. ed. 1768. v. 812. _a Goddes halfe_] See note, p. 174. v. 501. v. 817. _scole matter_] i. e. school-matter. Page 343. v. 820. _elenkes_] i. e. elenchs (_elenchus_—in logic). v. 822. _mell_] i. e. meddle. v. 826. _neuen_] i. e. name. v. 831. _mo_] i. e. more. v. 836. _Lymyters_] i. e. Friars licensed to beg within certain districts. v. 840. _Flatterynge, &c._] Compare Barclay; “We geue wooll and _cheese_, our wiues coyne and egges, When _freers flatter_ and prayse their proper legges.” _Fifth Egloge_, sig. D v. ed. 1570. v. 843. _lese_] i. e. lose. Page 344. v. 846. _bacon flycke_] i. e. flitch of bacon. v. 849. _couent_] i. e. convent. v. 852. _theyr tonges fyle_]—_fyle_, i. e. smooth, polish: the expression occurs in earlier and in much later writers. v. 854. _To Margery and to Maude,_ _Howe they haue no fraude_]