Page 45. v. 398. _The armes of Calyce_] In our author’s _Magnyfycence_ is the same exclamation; “By _the armes of Calys_, well conceyued!” V. 685. vol. i. 247. Whether Calais in France, or Cales (Cadiz) be alluded to, I know not. —— _crosse_] See note on v. 363. p. 116. v. 399. _renne_] i. e. run. v. 401. _To wete yf Malkyn, my lemman, haue gete oughte_] i. e. To know if Malkin, my mistress, has got aught:—whether _Malkin_ is the diminutive of _Mal_ (Mary) has been disputed. v. 406. _Bordews_] i. e. Bordeaux. v. 408. _auenture_] i. e. adventure. v. 411. _curtel_] i. e. curtal. v. 412. _lege_] i. e. allege. v. 413. _haue here is myne hat to plege_] Marshe’s ed., as I have noticed _ad loc._, omits “is:” but compare our author’s _Elynour Rummyng_; “_Haue here is_ for me, A cloute of London pynnes.” v. 563. vol. i. 113. “_Haue._ i. take the this torne or thredebare garment.” Palsgrave’s _Acolastus_, 1540. sig. U ii. Page 46. v. 414. _rybaude_] i. e. ribald. v. 418. _kyste_] i. e. cast. v. 420. _sadde_] i. e. serious, earnest. v. 423. _stede_] i. e. place. v. 425. _Me passynge sore myne herte than gan agryse_] For the reading of all the eds. “aryse,” I have ventured to substitute “agryse,” i. e. cause to shudder. Compare; “_Sore_ might _hir agrise_.” _Arthour and Merlin_, p. 34. ed. Abbotsf. “Of his sweuen _sore him agros_.” _Marie Maudelein_, p. 226,—Turnbull’s _Legendæ Catholicæ_ (from the Auchinleck MS.). “The kinges _herte_ of pitee _gan agrise_.” Chaucer’s _Man of Lawes Tale_, v. 5034. ed. Tyr. “Swiche peines, that your _hertes_ might _agrise_.” Chaucer’s _Freres Tale_, v. 7231. ed. Tyr. v. 426. _I dempte and drede_] i. e. I deemed and dreaded. v. 428. _Than in his hode, &c._]—_hode_, i. e. hood.—This passage is quoted by Warton, who observes, “There is also merit in the delineation of DISSIMULATION ... and it is not unlike Ariosto’s manner in imagining these allegorical personages.” _Hist. of E. P._ ii. 349. ed. 4to. Page 46. v. 431. _coost_] i. e. coast, approach. v. 433. _I sawe a knyfe hyd in his one sleue_]—_sleue_, i. e. sleeve.—This picture somewhat resembles that of False Semblant; “But _in his sleue he gan to thring_ _A rasour sharpe_.” Chaucer’s _Rom. of the Rose_,—_Workes_, fol. 141. ed. 1602. v. 434. _Myscheue_] i. e. Mischief. v. 436. _spone_] i. e. spoon. v. 437. _to preue a dawe_] i. e. to prove, try a simpleton: see note on v. 301. p. 113.—Warton, who gives the other reading, “_to preye_ a dawe,” explains it—to catch a silly bird. Note on _Hist. of E. P._ ii. 349. ed. 4to. v. 438. _wrete_] i. e. writ. Page 47. v. 440. _His hode was syde, his cope was roset graye_] i. e. His hood was long (or full), his cope was russet grey. v. 445. _a connynge man ne dwelle maye_] i. e. a wise, a learned man may not dwell. v. 448. _that nought can_] i. e. that knows nothing. v. 454. _clerke_] i. e. scholar. v. 455. _in the deuylles date_] See note on v. 375. p. 116.