v. 2124. _mowynge_] i. e. making mouths, grimacing.
v. 2132. _brothell_] Was formerly applied as a term of reproach to the worthless of either sex:
“Of this daye gladde was many a _brothell_ That myght haue an ore with Cocke Lorell.”
v. 2135. _Cockes armes_] i. e. God’s arms: see note on v. 518, p. 243.
v. 2138. _lurden_] See note on v. 423. p. 242.
v. 2143. _conuenyent_] i. e. fit, suitable.
Page 295. v. 2148. _poddynge prycke_] i. e. skewer that fastens the pudding-bag.
v. 2151. _the spence of a noble_] i. e. the expense or spending of a noble,—the gold coin so called.
v. 2152. _c. s._ i. e. a hundred shillings.
v. 2155. _occupyed_] Though our author, according to his occasionally pleonastic style, has in the next line but one, “_occupyed_ and vsyd,” the words are synonymous: see note, p. 86. v. 52.
v. 2164. _it shall not gretly skyll_] See note on v. 1615. p. 262.
v. 2166. _some fall prechynge at the Toure Hyll_] So in _Thenterlude of Youth_, n. d.;
“By our Lady he dyd promote the To make the _preche_ at the galowe tre.”
v. 2168. _nother they set by_] i. e. neither they value, regard.
v. 2171. _lusty to loke on_] i. e. pleasant to look on.
v. 2177. _rechate_] See note, p. 234. v. 215.
v. 2187. _spewe and cast_] One of Skelton’s pleonasms.
v. 2188. _gotted ... to thy share_]—_gotted_, i. e. gotten.
v. 2194. _to wed_] i. e. for a pawn, pledge.
v. 2195. _a daggeswane_] i. e. a rough sort of coverlet. “_Dagswayne._ Lodex.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. “My bedde is couered with a _daggeswayne_ and a quylte ... _gausape_ ...”—“Some _daggeswaynes_ haue longe thrummes & iagges on bothe sydes: some but on one.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. g iii. ed. 1530.
v. 2196. _metely well_] _“Metely: Moyennement. Assez,”_ &c. Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccccxliii. (Table of Aduerbes). “He is _metely_ lerned. _Mediocriter_ doctus est.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. R viii. ed. 1530.
v. 2198. _in the deuyls date_] See note, p. 116. v. 375.
Page 297. v. 2204. _hose_] i. e. breeches.
v. 2207. _skelpe_] i. e. slap, strike: see Jamieson’s _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._
v. 2209. _Cockes bones_] i. e. God’s bones: see note on v. 518. p. 243.
—— _blysse_] See note on v. 1641. p. 263.
v. 2210. _dynge the deuyll_]—_dynge_, i. e. strike, knock. So again in our author’s poem _Howe the douty Duke of Albany_, &c.;