—— _fro me she dyde fare_] i. e. from me she did go. v. 83. _mased_] i. e. amazed, confounded. v. 87. _Abasshe you not_] i. e. Be not abashed. —— _hardely_] i. e. confidently. v. 88. _Auaunce_] i. e. Advance. v. 89. _chaffer_] i. e. merchandise. v. 90. _I auyse you to speke, for ony drede_] i. e. I advise you to speak, notwithstanding any dread you may feel. Compare Lydgate; “And _for_ al strengthe that gad yaf hym [Samson] before, Thei hym captived.” _The prohemy of a mariage_, &c.,—_MS. Harl._ 372. fol. 48. Page 33. v. 92. _quod_] i. e. quoth. Page 34. v. 94. _And this an other_] i. e. And this is another reason. v. 95. _not worth a bene_] _Bene_ (bean) is frequently used by our early poets to express any thing worthless: “I yeue not of her harme _a bene_.” Chaucer’s _Rom. of the Rose_,—_Workes_, fol. 137. ed. 1602. v. 96. _lene_] i. e. lend, furnish with. v. 100. _cheuysaunce_] i. e. achievement,—profit, gain. v. 101. _nys_] i. e. ne is,—is not. v. 106. _werne_] i. e. warn. v. 107. _styreth_] i. e. steereth, directeth. v. 108. _quod_] i. e. quoth. v. 114. _luste_] i. e. pleasure, liking. Page 35. v. 117. _casseth_] “_Casser_ ... to _casse_, cassere, discharge, turne out of service, deprive of entertainment.” Cotgrave’s _Dict._ v. 120. _route_] i. e. company, crowd. v. 122. _thronge_] i. e. thronged. v. 134. _Fauell_] Our author in his _Magnyfycence_ has, “My tonge is with _fauell_ forked and tyned.” v. 737. vol. i. 249. Some readers need not be told how _Fauel_ figures in _Pierce Plowman_. Ritson (_An. Pop. Poetry_, p. 77) explains the word by deceit, referring to the present passage of _The Bowge of Courte_; but Mason (note on Hoccleve’s _Poems_, p. 42) observes that here “_Favel_ and _Disceyte_ are distinct personages, though the latter (for the sake of rhyme,) is first called _Subtylte_,” and considers that Carpentier, in his Sup. to Du Cange, gives the truest explanation of _Favel_ by _Cajolerie_. See also _Supplement_ to Roquefort’s _Gloss. de la Lang. Rom._ in v. _Favelle_. The origin of the word, after all that has been written on it, seems still uncertain. v. 137. _Mysdempte_] i. e. Misdeemed. v. 138. _Haruy Hafter_] Eds., as already noticed, have “_Haruy_ Haster;” and in the fourth of Skelton’s _Poems against Garnesche_, v. 164. vol. i. 131, the MS. gives the name with the same error. Compare our author’s _Why come ye nat to Courte_; “Hauell and Haruy _Hafter_.” v. 94. vol. ii. 29. and his _Magnyfycence_; “Nowe, _benedicite_, ye wene I were some _hafter_.” v. 259. vol. i. 233. “Craftynge and _haftynge_ contryued is by me.” v. 707. vol. i. 248. “For to vse suche _haftynge_ and crafty wayes.” v. 1698. vol. i. 280. “And from crafters and _hafters_ I you forfende.” v. 2485. vol. i. 307.