Page 350. v. 1003. _vre_] “_Evr_ happe or lucke with his compoundes _bonevr_ and _malevr_,” &c. Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. vi. (Thirde Boke). “My goddesse bright, my fortune, and my _vre_.” Chaucer’s _Court of Loue_, fol. 330,—_Workes_, ed. 1602. “The grace and _ewer_ and hap of olde fortune.” Lydgate’s _Warres of Troy_, B. iv. sig. Z v. cd. 1555. “But wayte his death & his fatall _eure_.” _Id_. sig. A a i. “And fortune which hath the such _vre_ y sent.” _Poems by C. Duke of Orleans,—MS. Harl._ 682, fol. 24. v. 1014. _played so checkemate_] In allusion to the king’s being put in _check_ at the game of chess. v. 1017. _mell_] i. e. meddle. v. 1019. _kayser_] See note, p. 247. v. 796. v. 1020. _at the playsure of one, &c._] Meaning, surely, Wolsey. v. 1025. _not so hardy on his hede_] An elliptical expression; compare v. 1154. In the _Morte d’Arthur_ when Bors is on the point of slaying King Arthur, “_Not soo hardy_ sayd syr launcelot _vpon payn of thy hede_, &c.” B. xx. c. xiii. vol. ii. 411. ed. Southey. v. 1026. _To loke on God in forme of brede_]—_loke_, i. e. look: _brede_, i. e. bread. A not unfrequent expression in our early writers. “Whan I sacred our lordes body Chryste Jesu _in fourme of brede_.” _The Lyfe of saint Gregoryes mother_, n. d. sig. A v. See too Ritson’s _An. Pop. Poetry_, p. 84; and Hartshorne’s _An. Met. Tales_, p. 134. Page 351. v. 1030. _sacryng_] “_Sacryng_ of the masse _sacrement_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lx. (Table of Subst.). And see Todd’s _Johnson’s Dict._ in v. v. 1041. _preas_] i. e. press. v. 1047. _ne_] i. e. nor. v. 1050. _warke_] i. e. work, business. Page 352. v. 1051. _this_] Perhaps for—thus; see note, p. 86. v. 38. v. 1054. _vncouthes_] i. e. strange matters. v. 1055. _ken_] i. e. know. v. 1070. _premenire_] i. e. præmunire. v. 1074. _fotyng_] i. e. footing. Page 352. v. 1075. _motyng_] i. e. mooting. “Certamen ... anglice flytynge chydynge or _motynge.” Ortus Vocab._ fol. ed. W. de Worde, n. d. v. 1076. _totyng_] i. e. prying, peeping. Page 353. v. 1084. _hole route_] i. e. whole crowd, set. v. 1098. _escrye_] i. e. call out against: see notes, p. 145. v. 903. p. 152. v. 1358. p. 283. v. 337. v. 1102. _werke_] i. e. work. Page 354. v. 1106. _hynderyng_] See note, p. 245. v. 719. —— _dysauaylyng_] “I _Disauayle_ one, I hynder his auauntage, _Ie luy porte dom̄aige_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccxii. (Table of Verbes). v. 1116. _to be gramed_] i. e. to be angered: _gramed_ is doubtless the right reading here, though the eds. have “greued” and the MS. “grevyd”—(_grame_ has already occurred in _Magnyfycence_, v. 1864). Page 355. v. 1134. _depraue_] i. e. vilify, defame. v. 1154. _Not so hardy on theyr pates_] See note on v. 1025, preceding page. v. 1155. _losell_] See note, p. 209. v. 138. v. 1156. _wesaunt_] i. e. weasand.