Page 57. v. 980. _Brose them on a brake_]—_Brose_, i. e. bruise, break: _brake_ (which has occurred before in a different sense, see note, p. 168. v. 324) means here an engine of torture: “I Brake on _a brake_ or payne bauke as men do mysdoers to confesse the trouthe.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. clxxi. (Table of Verbes). In the Tower was a celebrated _brake_ known by the nick-name of the Duke of Exeter’s Daughter: see the woodcut in Steevens’s note on _Measure for Measure_,—_Shakespeare_ (by Malone and Boswell), ix. 44. Page 57. v. 984. _a grym syer_]—_syer_, i. e. sire, lord. “Ryght _a grym syre_ at domys day xal he be.” _Coventry Mysteries_,—_MS. Cott. Vesp. D_ viii. fol. 37. v. 985. _potestolate_] Equivalent, I suppose, to—legate. v. 986. _potestate_] “_Potestat._ A Potestat, principall Officer, chiefe Magistrate.” Cotgrave’s _Dict._ v. 989. _echone_] i. e. each one. v. 990. _trone_] i. e. throne. v. 996. _Folam peason_] i. e. Fulham pease. v. 997. _geson_] i. e. scarce, rare. v. 1000. _herbers_] See note, p. 101. v. 13. v. 1001. _bryght and shene_] Are synonymous: yet Spenser also has; “Her garment was so _bright_ and wondrous _sheene_,” &c. _The Faerie Queene_,—_Mutabilitie_, vii. 7. Page 58. v. 1014. _The deuyll spede whitte_] See note, p. 252. v. 1018. v. 1016. _rechelesse_] i. e. reckless. v. 1019. _bended_] i. e. banded. “A knotte or a _bende_ of felowes.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. Z viii. ed. 1530. v. 1020. _condyscended_] See note, p. 237. v. 39. Page 59. v. 1055. _Remordynge_] See note, p. 193. v. 101. v. 1056. _flytynge_] i. e. scolding, rating. v. 1058. _dawis_] i. e. simpletons: see note, p. 113. v. 301. v. 1059. _sawis_] i. e. sayings, texts. v. 1060. _gygawis_] i. e. gewgaws, trifles. v. 1066. _let_] i. e. hinder, obstruct. v. 1067. _maumet_] See note, p. 188. v. 170. v. 1070. _crakynge_] i. e. vaunting, talking bigly. Page 60. v. 1077. _him lykys_] i. e. pleases him. v. 1086. _For all priuileged places, &c._.] See note, p. 342. v. 126. v. 1094. _Saint Albons to recorde, &c._.] Wolsey, at that time Archbishop of York and Cardinal, was appointed to hold the abbacy of St. Alban’s _in commendam_; and is supposed to have applied its revenues to the expensive public works in which he was then engaged, the building of his colleges at Oxford and Ipswich, &c.,—a great infraction, as it was considered, of the canon law. Page 60. v. 1100. _legacy_] i. e. legatine power. v. 1104. _ben_] i. e. be. v. 1105. _take_] i. e. took.