v. 575. _wode_] i. e. mad. v. 576. _mode_] i. e. mood, passion. v. 577. _swerde_] i. e. sword. v. 579. _sone_] i. e. soon. Page 45. v. 583. _trone_] i. e. throne. v. 584. _a great astate_] i. e. a person of great estate, or rank. v. 585. _play checke mate_] In allusion to the king’s being put in _check_ at the game of chess. v. 586. _ryall_] i. e. royal. v. 591. _fynd_] i. e. fiend. v. 594. _Lyke Mahounde in a play_] In none of the early miracle-plays which have come down to us is Mahound (Mahomet) a character, though he is mentioned and sworn by. v. 601. _rebads_] i. e. ribalds. v. 602. _beggers reiagged_] i. e. beggars all-tattered. v. 603. _recrayed_] i. e. recreant. v. 604. _hauell_] See note on v. 94. p. 353. v. 605. _Rynne_] i. e. Run. —— _iauell_] See note, p. 271. v. 2218. v. 606. _peuysshe pye_] i. e. silly magpie. v. 607. _losell_] i. e. good-for-nothing fellow, scoundrel. v. 613. _Iacke breche_] i. e. Jack-ass (-arse). Page 46. v. 618. _shrewdly_] i. e. badly. v. 621. _kayser_] See note, p. 247. v. 796. v. 622. _My lorde is nat at layser;_ _Syr, ye must tary a stounde, &c._] —_layser_, i. e. leisure: _a stounde_, i. e. a time, a while. Compare _A Character of the insolent behaviour of Cardinal Wolsey as given by Thomas Allen Priest and Chaplain to the Earl of Shrewsbury in a Letter to his Lordshyp about Apr._ 1517, among Kennett’s Collections,—_MS. Lansd._ 978. fol. 213. “Pleseth your Lordshyp to understande upon Monday was sennight last past I delivered your Letter with the examinacyon to my Lord Cardynall at Guilford, whence he commanded me to wait on him to the Court. I followed him and there gave attendance and could have no Answer. Upon ffriday last he came from thence to Hampton Court, where he lyeth. The morrow after I besought his Grace I might know his plesure; I could have no Answer. Upon Mondaye last as he walked in the parke at Hampton Court, I besought his Grace I might knowe if he wolde command me anye servyce. He was not content with me that I spoke to hym. So that who shall be a Suitour to him may have no other busynesse but give attendance upon his plesure. He that shall so doe, it is needfull shuld be a wyser man then I am. I sawe no remedy, but came without Answere, except I wolde have done as my Lord Dacre’s Servaunt doth, who came with Letters for the Kynges servyce five moneths since and yet hath no Answere. And another Servaunt of the Deputy of Calais likewyse who came before the other to Walsyngham, I heard, when he aunswered them, ‘If ye be not contente to tary my leysure, departe when ye wille.’ This is truthe, I had rather your Lordshyp commaunded me to Rome then deliver him Letters, and bring Aunswers to the same. When he walketh in the Parke he will suffer no Servaunt to come nyghe him, but commands them awaye as farre as one might shoote an arrowe.” Page 46. v. 631. _flyt_] i. e. remove. v. 635. _neuer the nere_]—_nere_, i. e. nearer.