v. 284. _hawte_] i. e. haughty. v. 285. _scornnys_] i. e. scorns. v. 286. _hode_] i. e. hood. v. 287. _by Cockes blode_] i. e. by God’s blood (_Cock_ a corruption of _God_). “The Host’s oath in Lydgate,” says Warton, note on _Hist. of E. P._, ii. 349. ed. 4to. It occurs often in other writers. v. 288. _bote_] i. e. bit. v. 289. _His face was belymmed, as byes had him stounge_] i. e. His face was disfigured, as if bees had stung him.—In a fragment of Lydgate’s _Fall of Prynces, MS. Harl._ 2251. fol. 97, we find “So that a _by_ myght close hem both two Vnder his wynges;” where Wayland’s ed. (B. ii. leaf li.) has “a _Bee_.” v. 290. _jape_] i. e. jest, joke. Page 41. v. 294. _this comerous crabes hyghte_] i. e. (I suppose) this troublesome crab was called.—Warton (_Hist. of E. P._ ii. 350) cites, without the authority of any ed., “—— crab is _hyghte_.” v. 297. _quod_] i. e. quoth. v. 298. _euyll apayed_] i. e. ill satisfied, ill pleased. v. 301. _Dawes_] Equivalent to—simpleton; the _daw_ being reckoned a silly bird: so again, in the next line but one, “doctour _Dawcocke_.” Page 42. v. 302. _in conceyte_] i. e. in the good opinion, favour of our Lady Fortune: compare v. 270. v. 303. _hyghte_] i. e. is called. v. 304. _sleyte_] i. e. sleight, artful contrivance. v. 311. _layne_] i. e. conceal. v. 312. _beyte_] i. e. bait. v. 315. _And soo outface hym with a carde of ten_] “A common phrase,” says Nares, “which we may suppose to have been derived from some game, (possibly _primero_), wherein the standing boldly upon a _ten_ was often successful. _A card of ten_ meant a tenth card, a ten.... I conceive the force of the phrase to have expressed originally the confidence or impudence of one who with a ten, as at brag, _faced_, or _outfaced_ one who had really a faced card against him. To face meant, as it still does, to bully, to attack by impudence of face.” _Gloss._ in v. _Face it_, &c. “The phrase of _a card of ten_ was possibly derived, by a jocular allusion, from that of _a hart of ten_, in hunting, which meant a full grown deer, one past six years of age.” _Ibid._ in v. _Card of ten_. v. 316. _assawte_] i. e. assault. v. 317. _meuyd all in moode_] i. e. moved all in anger. v. 318. _fawte_] i. e. fault. v. 320. _I wende he had be woode_] i. e. I thought he had been mad. v. 327. _hayne_] i. e. (perhaps) hind, slave, peasant. v. 329. _suche maysters to playe_] i. e. to play such pranks of assumed superiority. Compare v. 341. See Jamieson’s _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._ in v. _Maistryss_. Page 43. v. 330. _I am of countenaunce_] i. e. perhaps, I am a person of credit, good means, consequence (see Gifford’s note on B. Jonson’s _Works_, ii. 111). v. 332. _dyspleasaunce_] i. e. displeasure. v. 334. _no force_] i. e. no matter. v. 336. _auenture_] i. e. adventure. v. 337. _dreuyll_] i. e. drudge, low fellow. “_Dryuyll_ seruaunt.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499; and see also Todd’s _Johnson’s Dict._ in v. _Drivel_.