Page 340. v. 755. _To postell vpon a kyry_] i. e. to comment upon a Kyrie eleison: (a _postil_ is a short gloss, or note).
Page 341. v. 779. _blother_] i. e. gabble.
_make a Walshmans hose_ _Of the texte and of the glose_]
So again our author in his _Garlande of Laurell_;
“And after conueyauns as the world goos, It is no foly to vse _the Walshemannys hose_.”
Compare _The Legend of the Bischop of St Androis_;
“Of omnigatherene now his glose, He _maid it lyk a Wealchman hose_.”
_Scot. Poems of the Sixteenth Century_, (by Dalyell), p. 332.
“WELCHMAN’S HOSE. Equivalent, I imagine, to the breeches of a Highlander, or the dress of a naked Pict; upon the presumption that Welchmen had no hose.” Nares’s _Gloss._ in v. Unfortunately, however, for this ingenious conjecture, the expression is found varied to “_shipman’s hose_,”—which certainly cannot be considered as a non-entity. “Hereunto they adde also a Similitude not very agreeable, how the Scriptures be like to a Nose of Waxe, or _a Shipmans Hose_: how thei may be fashioned, and plied al manner of waies, and serue al mennes turnes.” Jewel’s _Defence of the Apologie_, &c. p. 465. ed. 1567. “And not made as _a shippe mans hose_ to serue for euery legge.” Wilson’s _Arte of Rhetorike_, p. 102. ed. 1580. Surely _Welshman’s hose_ (as well as shipman’s) became proverbial from their pliability, power of being stretched, &c.
Page 342. v. 800. _the brode gatus_] Means perhaps, Broadgates Hall, Oxford, on the site of which Pembroke College was erected.
v. 801. _Daupatus_] i. e. Simple-pate: see note, p. 113. v. 301.
v. 803. _Dronhen as a mouse_] So Chaucer;
“We faren as he that _dronke is as a mous_.”
v. 805. _his pyllyon and his cap_]—_pyllyon_, from Lat. _pileus_. Compare Barclay;
“Mercury shall geue thee giftes manyfolde, His _pillion_, scepter, his winges, and his harpe.”
and Cavendish’s _Life of Wolsey_; “and upon his head a round _pillion_, with a noble of black velvet set to the same in the inner side” [where surely we ought to read, “and upon his head a round _pillion_ of black velvet, with a noble set to the same in the inner side”]. p. 105. ed. 1827.
Page 342. v. 811. _As wyse as Waltoms calfe_] So Heywood;
“And thinke me _as wise as Waltams calfe_, to talke,” &c.