v. 382. _wake_] See note on v. 352. p. 115.
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_.”
and a song quoted in the note on our author’s _Magnyfycence_, v. 757;
_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.”
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.”
Page 45. v. 398. _The armes of Calyce_] In our author’s _Magnyfycence_ is the same exclamation;
“By _the armes of Calys_, well conceyued!”
Whether Calais in France, or Cales (Cadiz) be alluded to, I know not.
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.