v. 1157. _syr Guy of Gaunt_] See note, p. 184. v. 70. v. 1158. _lewde_] i. e. wicked, vile. Page 356. v. 1159. _doctour Deuyas_] See note, p. 95. v. 55. v. 1162. _dawcocke_] i. e. simpleton: see note, p. 113. v. 301. —— _mell_] i. e. meddle. v. 1164. _Allygate_] i. e. Allege. v. 1170. _lurdeyne_] See note, p. 242. v. 423. v. 1171. _Lytell Ease_] “_Little Ease_ (prison), mala mansio, arcæ robustæ.” Coles’s _Dict._—“LITTLE-EASE. A familiar term for a pillory, or stocks; or an engine uniting both purposes, the bilboes.” Nares’s _Gloss._ v. 1178. _rechelesse_] i. e. reckless. Page 357. v. 1184. _Poules Crosse_] i. e. Paul’s Cross. v. 1186. _Saynt Mary Spyttell_] In Bishopsgate Ward: see Stow’s _Survey_, B. ii. 97. ed. 1720. v. 1187. _set not by vs a whystell_] i. e. value us not at a whistle, care not a whistle for us. Compare Lydgate; “For he _set not by_ his wrethe _a whistel_.” _The prohemy of a mariage_, &c.,—_MS. Harl._ 372. fol. 45. v. 1188. _the Austen fryers_] In Broad-street Ward: see Stow’s _Survey_, B. ii. 114, ed. 1720. Page 357. v. 1190. _Saynt Thomas of Akers_] Concerning the “Hospital intituled of S. Thomas of Acon or Acars [Acre in the Holy Land], near to the great Conduit in Cheape,” see Stow’s _Survey_, B. iii. 37. ed. 1720, and Maitland’s _Hist. of London_, ii. 886. ed. 1756. v. 1191. _carpe vs_] Is explained by the various reading of the MS.,—“clacke of us.” —— _crakers_] i. e., as the context shews, (not—vaunters, but) noisy talkers. v. 1193. _reason or skyll_] See note, p. 238. v. 106. v. 1196. _at a pronge_] See note, p. 243. v. 506. v. 1199. _fonge_] i. e. take, get. v. 1201. _the ryght of a rambes horne_] An expression which our author has again in _Speke, Parrot_, v. 498. vol. ii. 24. So in a metrical fragment, temp. Edward ii.; “As _ryt as ramis orn._” _Reliquiæ Antiquæ_ (by Wright and Halliwell), ii. 19. And Lydgate has a copy of verses, the burden of which is,— “Conveyede by lyne _ryght as a rammes horne_.” _MS. Harl._ 172. fol. 71. See too Ray’s _Proverbs_, p. 225. ed. 1768. v. 1206. _yawde_] i. e. hewed, cut down. “To _Yaw_, to hew.” Gloss. appended to _A Dialogue in the Devonshire Dialect_, 1837. Page 358. v. 1208. _Ezechyas_] Ought to be “Isaias;” for, according to a Jewish tradition, Isaiah was cut in two with a wooden saw by order of King Manasseh. v. 1216. _agayne_] i. e. against. v. 1223. _cough, rough, or sneuyll_]—_rough_, i. e., perhaps, _rout_, snore, snort. I may just observe that Palsgrave not only gives “_rowte_” in that sense, but also “I _Rowte_ I belche as one dothe that voydeth wynde out of his stomacke, _Ie roucte_.” _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. cccxliiii. (Table of Verbes); and that Coles has “To _rout_, Crepo, pedo.” _Dict._ v. 1224. _Renne_] i. e. Run. v. 1227. _set not a nut shell_] i. e. value not at a nut-shell, care not a nut-shell for. v. 1229. _gyse_] i. e. guise, fashion.