v. 330. _Angry as a waspy_]—_waspy_, i. e. wasp. So Heywood;
“Now mery as a cricket, and by and by, _Angry as a waspe_.”
_Dialogue_, sig. C 4,—_Workes_, ed. 1598.
v. 331. _yane_] “I _yane_ I gaspe or gape.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccccxi. (Table of Verbes).
“Arondel, queth Beues tho, For me loue _go bet_, go.”
_Sir Beues of Hamtoun_, p. 129. Maitl. ed.
“_Go bet_, quod he, and axe redily, What corps is this,” &c.
Chaucer’s _Pardoneres Tale_, v. 12601. ed. Tyrwhitt,—
who observes that in the following lines of Chaucer’s _Legend of Dido_ (288), _go bet_ seems to be a term of the chase;
“The herd of hartes founden is anon, With hey, _go bet_, pricke thou, let gon, let gon.”
“He hath made me daunce, maugre my hede, Amonge the thornes, hey _go bette_.”
_The Frere and the Boye_,—_An. Pop. Poetry_, p. 46. ed. Ritson,—
who supposes the words to be the name of some old dance.
v. 335. _spycke_] “_Spyk_ of flesshe. Popa.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. The copy of that work, _MS. Harl._ 221, has “_Spyk_ or fet flesche,” &c.
“She let no ferte nor yet _fyste_ truelye.”
_The Pastime of pleasure_, sig. Q viii. ed. 1555.
“_A fiest_, Tacitus flatus.” Withals’s _Dict_. p. 343. ed. 1634.
v. 346. _wyth shamfull deth_] Equivalent to—may you die with a shameful death! see Tyrwhitt’s _Gloss._ to Chaucer’s _Cant. Tales_, in v. _With_.
v. 347. _callettes_] i. e. trulls, drabs, jades.
v. 348. _I shall breake your palettes_]—_palettes_, i. e. crowns, pates. So in a poem by Sir R. Maitland;
“For your rewarde now _I sall brek your pallat_.”
_Anc. Scot. Poems from. Maitl. MSS._, ii. 317. ed. Pinkerton,—
who, in the Gloss., wrongly explains it “cut your throat.”
v. 350. _And so was made the peace_] In confirmation of the reading which I have given, compare _Reynard the Fox_; “Thus was _the pees made_ by fyrapel the lupaerd frendly and wel.” Sig. e 5. ed. 1481; and see note on v. 319. p. 168.
v. 354. _sainct James in Gales_] The body of Saint James the Great having, according to the legend, been buried at Compostella in Galicia (_Gales_), a church was built over it. Pilgrims flocked to the spot; several popes having granted the same indulgences to those who repaired to Compostella, as to those who visited Jerusalem. In _The foure P. P._ by Heywood, the Palmer informs us that he has been