v. 908. _trotters_] “_Trotters_ shepes fete.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxxi. (Table of Subst.). v. 909. _potshordis_] i. e. potsherds. v. 910. _shrewdly_] i. e. badly. Page 55. v. 914. _syr Trestram_] See note, p. 137. v. 634. The name is, of course, used here for a person of rank generally. v. 916. _Cane_] i. e. Caen, in Normandy. v. 917. _wane_] i. e. decreased. v. 918. _royals_] } v. 919. _nobles_] } The coins so called. v. 920. _Burgonyons_] i. e. Burgundians. v. 928. _With, laughe and lay downe_] A punning allusion to the game at cards so called. v. 930. _Sprynge of Lanam_]—_Lanam_, i. e. Langham in Essex. In the Expenses of Sir John Howard, first Duke of Norfolk, we find, under the year 1463, “Item, Apylton and _Sprynge off Lanam_ owyth my mastyr, as James Hoberd and yonge Apylton knowyth wele [a blank left for the sum].” _Manners and Household Expenses of England_, &c. p. 180. ed. Roxb. It seems probable, however, from the early date, that the person mentioned in the entry just cited was the father (or some near relative) of the Spring noticed by Skelton. But Stow certainly alludes to the clothier of our text, where he records that, during the disturbances which followed the attempt to levy money for the king’s use in 1525, when the Duke of Norfolk inquired of the rebellious party in Suffolk “what was the cause of their disquiet, and who was their captaine?... one Iohn Greene a man of fiftie yeeres olde answered, that pouertie was both cause and captaine. For the rich clothiers _Spring of Lanam_ and other had giuen ouer occupying, whereby they were put from their ordinarie worke and liuing.” _Annales_, p. 525. ed. 1615. Neither Hall nor Holinshed, when relating the same circumstance, make any mention of Spring. Page 55. v. 935. _He must tax for his wull_] i. e. He must pay tax for his wool. Page 56. v. 952. _the streytes of Marock_] i. e. the straits of Morocco. “Thurghout the see of Grece, unto _the straite_ _Of Maroc_.” Chaucer’s _Man of Lawes Tale_, v. 4884. ed. Tyr. v. 953. _the gybbet of Baldock_] See note, p. 340. v. 75. v. 958. _mellys_] i. e. meddles. v. 972. _fendys blake_] i. e. fiends black. v. 974. _crake_] i. e. vaunt, talk bigly. v. 975. _he wolde than make_ _The deuyls to quake_] So Roy in his satire against Wolsey, _Rede me, and be nott wrothe_, &c.; “Yf he be as thou hast here sayde, I wene the devils will be afrayde To have hym as a companion; For what with his execracions, And with his terrible fulminacions, He wolde handle theym so, That for very drede and feare, All the devils that be theare Wilbe glad to let hym go.” _Harl. Miscell._ ix. 29. ed. Park. v. 978. _fyer drake_] i. e. fiery dragon. v. 979. _a cole rake_] “_Colerake ratissover_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xxv. (Table of Subst.).