v. 371. _klycked_] i. e. fastened. In Chaucer’s _Marchantes Tale_, v. 9991. ed. Tyr., “_clicket_” means a key. Todd (_Johnson’s Dict._ in v.) cites Cotgrave and Skinner for its having the signification of the ring, knocker, or hammer of a door. Richardson (_Dict._ in v.) remarks that the word was “applied to any fastening which was accompanied by a _clicking_, snapping noise.” v. 372. _rebaudrye_] i. e. ribaldry. v. 375. _in the deuylles date_] An exclamation several times used by Skelton.—In _Pierce Plowman_, a charter, which is read at the proposed marriage of Mede, is sealed “_in the date of the deuil_,” sig. C i. ed. 1561. v. 378. _auowe_] i. e. vow: see note on v. 199. p. 109. Page 44. v. 380. _done_] i. e. do. v. 382. _wake_] See note on v. 352. p. 115. —— _none_] i. e. noon. v. 383. _mone_] i. e. moon. Page 45. v. 386. _Plucke vp thyne herte vpon a mery pyne_] “Vpon a mery pynne: _De hayt_, as _Il a le cueur de hayt_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccccxlvi. (Table of Aduerbes). The expression occurs often in our early poetry; and is found even in one of Wycherley’s comedies. v. 387. _And lete vs laugh a placke or tweyne at nale_]—“plucke,” as I have observed _ad loc._, seems to be the right reading, though the word occurs in the preceding line: compare _Thersytes_, n. d. “Darest thou trye maystries with me a _plucke_.” p. 60. Rox. ed. and a song quoted in the note on our author’s _Magnyfycence_, v. 757; “A stoupe of bere vp at _a pluk_.” _at nale_, (_atten ale_, _at then ale_; see Price’s note, Warton’s _Hist. of E. P._ ii. 501. ed. 1824), i. e. at the ale-house. v. 389. _of dyce a bale_] i. e. a pair of dice. v. 390. _A brydelynge caste_] An expression which I am unable to explain. It occurs (but applied to drinking) in Beaumont and Fletcher’s _Scornful Lady_; “Let’s have _a bridling cast_ before you go. Fill’s a new stoop.” act ii. sc. 2. —— _male_] i. e. bag, wallet, pouch. v. 391. _burde_] i. e. board. v. 393. _the dosen browne_] Is used sometimes to signify thirteen; as in a rare piece entitled _A Brown Dozen of Drunkards_, &c., 1648. 4to., who are _thirteen_ in number. But in our text “the dosen browne” seems merely to mean the full dozen: so in a tract (_Letter from a Spy at Oxford_) cited by Grey in his notes on _Hudibras_, vol. ii. 375; “and this was the twelfth Conquest, which made up the Conqueror’s _brown Dozen_ in Number, compared to the twelve Labours of Hercules.” v. 394. _pas_] Seems here to be equivalent to—stake; but I have not found _pass_ used with that meaning in any works on gaming. See _The Compleat Gamester_, p. 119. ed. 1680. v. 397. _in my pouche a buckell I haue founde_] So in our author’s _Magnyfycence_, after Foly and Fansy have exchanged purses, the latter says “Here is nothynge but _the bockyll of a sho_, And in my purse was twenty marke.” v. 1120. vol. i. 261.