v. 374. _myche_] i. e. much. v. 378. _on and hothyr_] i. e. one and other. v. 380. _recheles_] i. e. reckless. v. 382. _prosses_] Equivalent here to—matter: see p. 230 (first note on prose). v. 383. _cowardes_] i. e. cowardice. v. 385. _connyng_] i. e. knowing, learned. v. 386. _postyll_] See note, p. 289. v. 755. Page 20. v. 393. _Lyacon_] See note on v. 291. p. 345. v. 394. _Racell, rulye_] i. e. Rachel, ruefully; compare v. 116. v. 395. _mawmett_] See note, p. 188. v. 170. —— _quod_] i. e. quoth. v. 407. _For passe a pase apase ys gon to cache a molle_] Qy. is there an allusion here to Secretary Pace? v. 408. _Scarpary_] See note on v. 133. p. 342. —— _sliddyr_] i. e. slippery. v. 409. _pendugims_] See note on v. 210. p. 344. Page 21. v. 412. _Difficille hit ys_] i. e. Difficult it is. v. 415. _raye_] i. e. array. v. 416. _Agayne_] i. e. Against. v. 417. _ensembyll_] i. e. together. (Fr.) v. 418. _The nebbis of a lyon they make to trete and trembyll_]—_nebbis_, i. e. neb, nib, nose: _to trete_, i. e. (I suppose) to become tractable. v. 419. _folys_] i. e. fools. v. 420. _to play cowche quale_] So in _Thersytes_, n. d.; “Howe I haue made the knaues for _to play cowch quaile_.” p. 42. Roxb. ed. “And thou shalt make him _couche as doth a quaille_.” _The Clerkes Tale_, v. 9082. ed. Tyr. v. 421. _polys_] i. e. pools. v. 422. _babylles_] i. e. (fools’) bawbles. v. 424. _He facithe owte at a fflusshe_] Compare _The Bowge of Courte_, v. 315. “And soo outface hym with a carde of ten.” v. 315. vol. i. 42. _fflusshe_, i. e. a hand of cards all of a sort. v. 425. _cardys_] i. e. cards. v. 427. _skyregalyard_] See note, p. 218. v. 101. —— _prowde palyard_] So, afterwards, the Duke of Albany is termed by Skelton in his tirade against that nobleman, v. 170. vol. ii. 73. “_Paillard._ A lecher, wencher, whoremunger, whorehunter; also, a knave, rascall, varlet, scoundrell, filthy fellow.” Cotgrave’s _Dict._ —— _vaunteperler_] “_Avant-parleur._ A forespeaker; or one that is too forward to speak.” Cotgrave’s _Dict._ “Whiche bee the _vauntperlers_ and heddes of thair faction.” _Letter of Bedyll to Crumwell_,—_State Papers_ (1830), i. 424. v. 428. _woluys hede_] i. e. wolf’s head. —— _bloo_] i. e. livid: see note, p. 103. v. 3. v. 429. _Hyt ys to fere_] i. e. It is to fear,—be feared. v. 430. _Peregall_] i. e. Equal (thoroughly equal). v. 431. _regiment_] i. e. rule. v. 432. _quod ex vi bolte harvi_]—_quod_, i. e. quoth: of the rest, the reader may make what he can. v. 435. _groynyd at_] i. e. grumbled at. Page 22. v. 436. _Grete reysons with resons be now reprobitante,_ _For reysons ar no resons, but resons currant_]