—— _haskardis_] “_Haskerdes_ went in the queste: not honeste men. _Proletarii & capite censi_: non classici rem trāsegerunt.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. n iiii. ed. 1530. “Wyne was not made for euery _haskerde_.” Copland’s _Hye Way to the Spyttell Hous_, _Early Pop. Poetry_, ii. 33. ed. Utterson, who in the Gloss. queries if _haskerde_ mean “dirty fellow? from the Scotch _hasky_.” The latter word is explained by Jamieson “dirty, slovenly.” _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._ —— _rebawdis_] i. e. ribalds. v. 608. _Dysers, carders_] Dicers, card-players. —— _gambawdis_] i. e. gambols. Page 386. v. 609. _Furdrers of loue_] i. e. Furtherers of love—pimps, pandars. v. 610. _blow at the cole_] A friend suggests that there is an allusion here to alchemists; but I believe he is mistaken. It is a proverbial expression. So our author again; “We may _blowe at the cole_.” _Why come ye nat to Courte_, v. 81. vol. ii. 29. The proverb given by Davies of Hereford; “_Let them that bee colde, blow at the cole._ So may a man do, and yet play the foole.” _Scourge of Folly_,—_Prouerbes_, p. 171. and by Ray, _Proverbs_, p. 90. ed. 1768, seems to have a quite different meaning. Page 386. v. 611. _kownnage_] i. e. coinage,—coining. v. 612. _Pope holy ypocrytis_] i. e. Pope-holy hypocrites: see note, p. 230. l. 24 (prose). —— _as they were golde and hole_]—_hole_, i. e. whole. Heywood also has this expression; “In words _gold and hole_, as men by wit could wish, She will [lie] as fast as a dog will lick a dish.” _Dialogue_, &c.—_Workes_, sig. H 2, ed. 1598. v. 613. _Powle hatchettis_] See note, p. 98. v. 28. —— _ale pole_] i. e. pole, or stake, set up before an ale-house by way of sign. v. 614. _brybery, theft_] See note, p. 256. v. 1242. v. 615. _condycyons_] See note, p. 183. v. 12. v. 616. _folys_] i. e. fools. v. 618. _dysdanous dawcokkis_] i. e. disdainful simpletons, empty fellows: see note, p. 113. v. 301. v. 619. _fawne thé_] i. e. fawn on thee. —— _kurris of kynde_] i. e. curs by nature. v. 620. _shrewdly_] i. e. evilly. v. 625. _broisid_] i. e. bruised, broke. v. 626. _peuysshe_] i. e. foolish, silly. —— _porisshly pynk iyde_] “_Porisshly_, as one loketh yᵗ can nat se well, _Louchement_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccccxliiii. (Table of Aduerbes): _pynk iyde_, i. e. pink-eyed; “Some haue myghty eyes, and some be _pynkeyed ... peti_.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. G vi. ed. 1530; and see Nares’s _Gloss._ in v. v. 627. _aspyid_] i. e. espied, marked. v. 629. _a gun stone_] After the introduction of iron shot (instead of balls of stone) for heavy artillery, the term _gunstone_ was retained in the sense of—bullet: “_Gonne stone_, _plombee_, _boulet_, _bovle de fonte_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xxxvii. (Table of Subst.). —— _all to-iaggid_] See notes, p. 100. v. 32. p. 163. v. 124. v. 630. _daggid_] See note, p. 163. v. 123. v. 631. _byrnston_] i. e. brimstone.