85. The other edition by Skot reads _will not_, according to Hawkins.
87. The earliest instance in print, perhaps, of this proverb being used.
93. Skot's other edition, _from hell and from the fire_.
96. Five Wits, i.e., the Five Senses. These are frequently exhibited as five distinct personages upon the Spanish stage. See Riccoboni, p. 98; but our moralist has represented them all by one character. In Shakespeare's "King Lear," the Madman says, "Bless thy Five Wits!" meaning the Five Senses.--_Percy_.
98. This portion has been collated with the Douce fragment printed by Pynson ("Shakespeare Society's Papers," iii. 149), as well as with the other impression by Pynson in the British Museum.
100. Out of the peril or danger of anything, equal to out of its control or cognizance.
104. Older, chief. Hawkins omitted the word _Christ_.
105. The proverb. This is the earliest use of it which has occurred.
108. The colophon in one of Skot's editions is at the end; in his other there is only his mark. But see Hazlitt's "Handbook," p. 463-4.
109. The only one known. There is a later edition in the Bodleian, printed by John Waley, and also apparently unique.
110. [This is an odd remark, the woodcuts being all common cuts of the time, turned to an extraordinary variety of uses. They are very ineffectively given by Hawkins, whoever his _masterly hand_ may have been.]
111. Holt sometimes signifies a wood, grove, or forest: so Chaucer:--
"When Zephyrus eke, with his sweet breath Inspired hath, in every holt and heath The tender croppis;"
it sometimes signifies a hill: so in the old Scotish song of "Robin and Makin"--
"Makyne went home blyth anneuche, Attour the holttis hair." --_Henryson's Works_, by Laing, p. 7. 112. Wilderness.
115. Apparently the prison cell, divided into two parts, so as to hold two persons.
[_Nim_. The good humour is to steal at a minim's rest. _Pist_. Convey, the wise it call: steal? foh; a fico for the phrase. --_Merry Wives of Windsor_.
119. [A proverb. See Hazlitt's "English Proverbs," 1869, p. 395.]
127. See "Halliwell'a Dictionary," in v. The exact origin and meaning of the word, which seems to be a mere fantastic phrase, is apparently unknown.
133. _At nale_, at the alehouse. So Chaucer in the "Frere's Tale":--