v. 1370. _pety brybery_] See note on v. 1242. p. 256.
v. 1378. _checke_] i. e. taunt: see note on v. 300. p. 240.
v. 1379. _weltyth_] To _welt_ means—to border: but qy. is _weltyth_ here used for _weldyth_, i. e. wieldeth, directeth?
v. 1382. _sadnesse_] i. e. gravity, seriousness, soberness, discreetness.
Page 270. v. 1389. _sorte_] i. e. set, company.
v. 1390. _hokes vnhappy_]—_hokes_, i. e. hooks, a word frequently applied to persons as a term of reproach. “_Vnhappy_ of maners _maluays_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xcviii. (Table of Adiect.). So in _Jacke Jugelar_, n. d.;
“Loo yender cumithe that _vnhappye hooke_.”
“Since thou art crosse sailde, auale _vnhappie hooke_.”
v. 1395. _dawe_] i. e. simpleton; see note, p. 113. v. 301.
v. 1396. _occupyed_] i. e. used, employed; see note, p. 86. v. 52.
v. 1397. _reason and skyll_] See note on v. 106. p. 238.
v. 1401. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary.
v. 1411. _Had I wyst_] See note, p. 86. v. 40.
v. 1421. _Ye haue eten sauce_] Compare our author’s _Bowge of Courte_, v. 72. vol. i. 33.
v. 1425. _worshyp_] i. e. honour, dignity.
Page 272. v. 1441. _menys of to moche_] i. e. means of too much.
v. 1442. _What, can ye agree thus and appose?_]—_and appose_, i. e. and yet keep questioning, disputing: see note on _Colyn Cloute_, v. 267.
—— _Jacke a thrommys bybyll_] See note, p. 189. v. 204.
v. 1446. _loke you vnder kay_] i. e. lock you under key.
v. 1456. _Take it in worthe_] See note, p. 95. v. 68.
Page 273. v. 1473. _fonde_] i. e. foolish.
Page 273. v. 1474. _loke that ye occupye_] i. e. look that ye use; see note, p. 86. v. 52.
v. 1475. _For nowe, syrs, I am lyke as a prynce sholde be, &c._] This speech of Magnyfycence is very much in the style of Herod in the old miracle-plays: see, for instance, the _Coventry Mysteries_, _MS. Cott. Vesp. D._ viii. fol. 92. sqq.
“For _abandonit_ will he noght be to berne that is borne.”
_Golagros and Gawane_, p. 142,—_Syr Gawayne_, &c.
Barbour’s _Bruce_, B. iii. v. 883. ed. Jam.
v. 1481. _mene_] See note on v. 138. p. 238.
v. 1493. _ryall trone_] i. e. royal throne.
v. 1505. _the cane_] Does it mean—the khan?
v. 1507. _I set not by_] i. e. I value not, regard not.
v. 1518. _to lowte man be sene_] i. e. (if the text be right; see foot-note _ad l._) must be seen to bow, pay obeisance.