“For thou can not but brag, Lyke a Scottyshe _hag_.” v. 294. vol. ii. 76. v. 20. _Haue in sergeaunt ferrour_] i. e. Bring in sergeant farrier. “_Ferrour._ Ferrarius. Ferrator.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. The title _sergeant_ belongs properly to certain of the king’s servants: so in an unpublished _Liber Excerpt. Temp. Hen. vii. et Hen. viii._ in the Chapter-house, Westminster; (xix. of “Item payd to the _sergeant_ plummer and } Hen. vii.) bartram opon their indentures for grenewiche } _xxli._” Page 24. v. 23. _keylyth_] i. e. (perhaps) cooleth—but I do not understand the passage. v. 24. _neuer a dele_] i. e. not a bit. v. 25. _wrenche_] “_Wrenche_, a wyle _gauche_, _ruse_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxxvi. (Table of Subst.). v. 30. _dyntes_] i. e. blows. v. 31. _He bresyth theyr braynpannys_] i. e. He bruiseth, breaketh their skulls, heads: “_Pan_ of the hede. _Cranium._” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. v. 32. _all to-brokyn_] A writer in the new ed. of Boucher’s _Gloss._ (in v. _All_) justly observes that it is a mistake to suppose that in such expressions _all_ is coupled with _to_, and that it becomes equivalent to _omnino_ from being thus conjoined. The augmentative _to_ is connected with the following word as a prefix, and often occurs without being preceded by _all_: so in our author’s _Bowge of Courte_, “A rusty gallande, _to-ragged_ and _to-rente_.”—v. 345. vol. i. 43. —— _clappys_] i. e. strokes. v. 33. _to lepe the hach_] i. e. to run away:—(_hatch_—the fastened half or part of the door, the half-door). “I pretende [i. e. intend] therefore _to leape ouer the hatche_.” _The Triall of Treasure_, 1567. sig. E ii. v. 34. _By theyr conusaunce knowing how they serue a wily py_] _Conusaunce_ is cognizance,—a badge worn by servants; _py_ is magpie: there seems to be some allusion to armorial bearings. v. 36. _It can be no counsell that is cryed at the cros_] i. e. It can be no secret that is proclaimed at the market-place. v. 38. _furst_] i. e. first. —— _los_] May mean _loss_, but, rather, it would seem, “_Loos_ or bad name. Infamia.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. v. 39. _warke_] i. e. work. _Qd_] i. e. Quod, quoth. Page 25. v. 3. _Corage wyth lust_] See notes, p. 98. v. 23., p. 99. v. 19: but the whole stanza is very obscure. v. 7. _surmountyng_] i. e. surpassing. v. 8. _Allectuary_] i. e. Electuary. —— _arrectyd_] i. e. perhaps, considered sovereign; to _arrect_ is to impute: or it may simply mean—raised up; our author’s _Garlande of Laurell_ begins “_Arectyng_ my syght towarde the zodyake.”—vol. i. 361. —— _redres_] i. e. relieve, remedy. v. 9. _axys_] i. e. fits, paroxysms. “Yet I haue felt of the sicknesse through May Both hote and cold, and _axes_ euery day.” Chaucer’s _Cuckow and Nightingale_,—_Workes_, fol. 316. ed. 1602. “Ther comyth a _quarteyn_, seith in his gret _accesse_,” &c. Lydgate’s verses _Against Self-love_,—_MS. Harl._ 2255. fol. 8.