Page 43. v. 338. _have deynte_] See note on v. 150. p. 108. v. 340. _Well, ones thou shalte be chermed, I wus_] i. e. Well, one time or other thou shalt be charmed (quelled, as if by a charm), certainly (_I wus—i-wis,_ adv.). v. 344. _Ryotte_] “Is forcibly and humorously pictured.” Warton, _Hist. of E. P._ ii. 348. ed. 4to. v. 345. _A rusty gallande, to-ragged and to-rente_] i. e. A shabby gallant, utterly ragged and tattered: see note on v. 32. p. 100. v. 346. _bones_] i. e. dice. v. 348. _by saynte Thomas of Kente_] i. e. by saint Thomas a Becket: “Thought I, _By saint Thomas of Kent_,” &c. Chaucer’s _House of Fame_,—_Workes_, fol. 267. ed. 1602. The picture of Ryotte in the present passage and in v. 389 sqq. gave birth no doubt to the following lines in a poem called _Syrs spare your good_; No by my faith he saide incontinente But by saint Thomas of Kente I woulde haue at the hasarde a cast or two For to learne to caste the dyce to and fro And if here be any body that wyll for money playe I haue yet in my purse money and pledges gaye Some be nobles some be crownes of Fraunce Haue at all who wyll of this daunce One of them answered with that worde And caste a bale of dyce on the borde,” &c. I quote from _Brit. Bibliog._ ii. 371, where are extracts from an ed. of the poem printed by Kytson, n. d.: it originally appeared from the press of W. de Worde; see _Cens. Liter._ i. 55. sec. ed. v. 349. _kyst I wote nere what_] i. e. cast I know never (not) what. v. 350. _His here was growen thorowe oute his hat_] i. e. His hair, &c. Compare Barclay’s _Argument of the first Egloge_; “At diuers holes _his heare grewe through his hode._” Sig. A i. ed. 1570. and Heywood’s _Dialogue_; “There is a nest of chickens which he doth brood That will sure _make his hayre growe through his hood_.” Sig. G 2.,—_Workes_, ed. 1598. Ray gives, “_His hair grows through his hood_. He is very poor, his hood is full of holes.” _Proverbs_, p. 57. ed. 1768. Page 43. v. 351. _how he dysgysed was_] i. e. what a wretched plight he was in: “Ragged and torne, _disguised_ in array.” Chaucer’s _Court of Loue_, fol. 329,—_Workes_, ed. 1602. v. 352. _watchynge ouer nyghte_] i. e. over-night’s debauch: “Withdraw your hand fro riotous _watchyng_.” Lydgate’s _Fall of Prynces_, B. ix. fol. xxxi. ed. Wayland. v. 354. _ne couer myghte_] i. e. might not cover. v. 355. _he wente so all for somer lyghte_]—_somer_, i. e. summer. Compare; “For he sente hem forth selverles, in _a somer garnement_.” _Peirs Plouhman_, Pass. Dec. p. 153. ed. Whit. “It semed that he caried litel array, _Al light for sommer_ rode this worthy man.” Chaucer’s _Chanones Yemannes Prol._ v. 16035. ed. Tyr. See too Bale’s _Kyng Iohan_, p. 34. ed. Camd. Soc.; and our author’s _Phyllyp Sparowe_, v. 719. vol. i. 73.