518. _Cure_, edit. 1569.--_Collier_. [The former editor printed _cuer_.]
519. Sweet or fresh-made, from the old word _sote_.
522. First edition reads, "Dyd laugh full well together lyke frendes."
523. First edition reads, "Then to Lucyfer low as I coude."
527. So 1st edit., and properly, the meaning being that the Pardoner is ready to requite part of this favour whenever it shall be the devil's pleasure.--Collier_.
536. I suppose _wrabbed_ to be a word coined for the sake of rhyme.--_S_. [But see Nares, 1859, in v., where it is said: "Probably for _rabid_, but so written for the sake of looking to the eye more like a rhyme to _crabbed_."]
539. _Maryed_, 1st edit. It will be observed that there is no rhyme to the line--
"And oft with them have long tyme taried,"
and it is probable that a line has here dropped out ending with _maryed_, which is the word in the oldest of the three editions.--_Collier_.
540. i.e., Fetch'd. The word is used by Tusser, Spenser, and Shakespeare.--_S_.
541. i.e., Five knaves and two more there, iii.
542. _Overcome_. See note 1 on "God's Promises." So Eleanor, in the "Second Part of King Henry VI.," A. 1, S. 3, says--
"I'd set my _ten commandments_ in your face"
_Ten Commandments_ seem to have been cant terms for the nails of the hands. See also Mr Steevens's note on the above passage.
551. i.e., One who struts or agitates his body in a pompous manner. So, in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"--
"How he jets under his advanced plumes."--_S_.
553. I believe we should read _affin'd_, i.e. joined by affinity to each other. So in "Othello":
"If partially _affin'd_ or leagued in office."--_S_.
It probably means _assigned_ to the Palmer to wait on him, which was part of the agreement, before the contention began.--_Collier_.
562. Perhaps by _parels_ is meant _pareilles_, Fr., _i.e_., things similar, or _parels_. Or it may be only a corruption of _perils_.--_S_.
567. [The colophon of the first edition is: "Imprynted at London in Fletestrete at the sygne of the George, by Wyllyam Myddylton." For the particulars of the other two editions, that by Copland being unknown to the former editors, see Hazlitt's "Handbook," p. 269.]
568. Two Interludes: Jack Juggler and Thersites. Edited by Joseph Haslewood, 4to, 1820.