Page 352. v. 1051. _this_] Perhaps for—thus; see note, p. 86. v. 38.
v. 1054. _vncouthes_] i. e. strange matters.
Page 352. v. 1075. _motyng_] i. e. mooting. “Certamen ... anglice flytynge chydynge or _motynge.” Ortus Vocab._ fol. ed. W. de Worde, n. d.
v. 1076. _totyng_] i. e. prying, peeping.
Page 353. v. 1084. _hole route_] i. e. whole crowd, set.
v. 1098. _escrye_] i. e. call out against: see notes, p. 145. v. 903. p. 152. v. 1358. p. 283. v. 337.
Page 354. v. 1106. _hynderyng_] See note, p. 245. v. 719.
—— _dysauaylyng_] “I _Disauayle_ one, I hynder his auauntage, _Ie luy porte dom̄aige_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccxii. (Table of Verbes).
v. 1116. _to be gramed_] i. e. to be angered: _gramed_ is doubtless the right reading here, though the eds. have “greued” and the MS. “grevyd”—(_grame_ has already occurred in _Magnyfycence_, v. 1864).
Page 355. v. 1134. _depraue_] i. e. vilify, defame.
v. 1154. _Not so hardy on theyr pates_] See note on v. 1025, preceding page.
v. 1155. _losell_] See note, p. 209. v. 138.
v. 1157. _syr Guy of Gaunt_] See note, p. 184. v. 70.
Page 356. v. 1159. _doctour Deuyas_] See note, p. 95. v. 55.
v. 1162. _dawcocke_] i. e. simpleton: see note, p. 113. v. 301.
v. 1170. _lurdeyne_] See note, p. 242. v. 423.
v. 1171. _Lytell Ease_] “_Little Ease_ (prison), mala mansio, arcæ robustæ.” Coles’s _Dict._—“LITTLE-EASE. A familiar term for a pillory, or stocks; or an engine uniting both purposes, the bilboes.” Nares’s _Gloss._
Page 357. v. 1184. _Poules Crosse_] i. e. Paul’s Cross.
v. 1186. _Saynt Mary Spyttell_] In Bishopsgate Ward: see Stow’s _Survey_, B. ii. 97. ed. 1720.
v. 1187. _set not by vs a whystell_] i. e. value us not at a whistle, care not a whistle for us. Compare Lydgate;
“For he _set not by_ his wrethe _a whistel_.”
_The prohemy of a mariage_, &c.,—_MS. Harl._ 372. fol. 45.
v. 1188. _the Austen fryers_] In Broad-street Ward: see Stow’s _Survey_, B. ii. 114, ed. 1720.
Page 357. v. 1190. _Saynt Thomas of Akers_] Concerning the “Hospital intituled of S. Thomas of Acon or Acars [Acre in the Holy Land], near to the great Conduit in Cheape,” see Stow’s _Survey_, B. iii. 37. ed. 1720, and Maitland’s _Hist. of London_, ii. 886. ed. 1756.