v. 1074. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary.
v. 1082. _so hye fro me doth sprynge_] i. e. doth (dost) grow so much taller than I.
v. 1093. _flete_] i. e. float, flow, abound.
v. 1096. _Cockys harte_] i. e. God’s heart: see note on v. 518. p. 243.
v. 1104. _a fole the tone_] i. e. a fool the one.
Page 261. v. 1107. _warke_] i. e. work, business.
v. 1109. _a fonde gest_] i. e. a foolish guest.
v. 1111. _so folysshe and so fonde_] i. e. so foolish and so silly (one of Skelton’s pleonasms).
v. 1120. _Here is nothynge but the bockyll of a sho_] Compare _The Bowge of Courte_, v. 397. vol. i. 45.
v. 1121. _marke_] i. e. marks,—the coins so named.
v. 1126. _a botchment_] “_Botchement_. Additamentum.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499.
v. 1127. _forfende_] i. e. prohibit, forbid.
v. 1128. _For Goddes cope_] So we find as an oath, “By gods blew _hood_.” _Tom Tyler and his Wife_, p. 5. ed. 1661.
v. 1136. _Aungey_] Does it mean Angers, or Anjou?
v. 1143. _puddynges_] See note, p. 173. v. 443.
—— _wortes_] Is here, I suppose, equivalent to—cabbages.
v. 1147. _marmosete_] A kind of ape, or monkey.
Page 262. v. 1150. _pultre_] i. e. poultry, fowl.
v. 1154. _rode_] i. e. rood, cross: see note, p. 206. v. 69.
v. 1157. _nyfyls_] A word sufficiently explained by the context, and of frequent occurrence. So in _A Mery Play between Johan the Husbande, Tyb his Wyfe, and Syr Jhan the Preest_, 1533, attributed to Heywood;
“By God, I wolde ye had harde the tryfyls, The toys, the mokkes, the fables, and the _nyfyls_, That I made thy husbande to beleve and thynke.”
v. 1159. _mased_] i. e. bewildered, confounded.
v. 1165. _It forseth not_] i. e. It matters not.
v. 1168. _Mary_] i. e. By the Virgin Mary.
v. 1175. _a farle freke_] i. e. a strange fellow: see notes, p. 109. v. 187; p. 178. v. 15.
v. 1176. _play well at the hoddypeke_]—_hoddypeke_ is a common term of contempt or reproach (as in our author’s _Why come ye nat to Courte_, v. 326. vol. ii. 37), and is generally equivalent to—fool. The original meaning of the word is altogether uncertain. Steevens (note on _Gammer Gurtons Nedle_) explains it—hodmandod (shell-snail); and Nares (_Gloss._ in v.) is inclined to agree with him. In a passage of Dunbar’s _Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis_ (_Poems_, i. 51. ed. Laing), “_hud-pykis_” has been explained (on account of the context)—misers. In Cotgrave’s _Dict._ is “Noddy peke.”