v. 852. _poynte deuyse_] i. e. perfectly exact: see Gifford’s note on B. Jonson’s _Works_, iv. 169.
v. 859. _My sleue is wyde_] So Barclay describes the young gallants of the time with “Their _sleues_ blasing like to a Cranes winges.” _The Ship of Fooles_, fol. 8. ed. 1570. Wide sleeves are also mentioned in the following curious passage of Medwall’s _Interlude of Nature_, n. d. (written before the year 1500); the speaker is Pride:
“Behold the bonet vppon my hed a staryng colour of scarlet red I promyse you a fyne threde and a soft wull It cost me a noble at one pyche The scald capper sware sythyche That yt cost hym euen as myche But there Pryde had a pull. I loue yt well to haue syde here Halfe a wote byneth myne ere For euer more I stande in fere That myne nek shold take cold I knyt yt vp all the nyght and the day tyme kemb yt down ryght And then yt cryspeth and shyneth as bryght as any pyrled gold. My doublet ys on laced byfore A stomacher of saten and no more Rayn yt snow yt neuer so sore Me thynketh I am to hote Than haue I suche a short gown Wyth _wyde sleues_ that hang a down They wold make some lad in thys town a doublet and a cote. Som men wold thynk that this were pryde But yt ys not so, ho ho abyde I haue a dagger by my syde yet therof spake not I I bought thys dagger at the marte A sharp poynt and a tarte He that had yt in hys hart Were as good to dye. Than haue I a sworde or twayn To bere theym my selfe yt were a payne They ar so heuy that I am fayne to puruey suche a lad Though I say yt a praty boy It ys halfe my lyues ioy He maketh me laugh wyth many a toy The vrchyn ys so mad.”
Page 253. v. 861. _hose_] i. e. breeches.
“To flatterynge, to smatterynge, _to to_ out of harre.”
Compare _M. Harry Whobals mon to M. Camel_, &c. (folio broadside among the “flytings” of Churchyard and Camell);
“My master Harry Whoball, sur, is _to to_ shamefull wrothe. ... ... for drinke is _to to_ nappye.”
Ray gives “_Too too_ will in two. _Chesh._” _Proverbs_, p. 163. ed. 1768.
Page 254. v. 885. _I befoule his pate_] i. e. I befool, &c. (not _befoul_), as it would seem from v. 1057, “I _befole_ thy face;” and v. 1829, “I _befole_ thy brayne pan.”
v. 886. _fonne iet_] i. e. foolish fashion (see note on v. 458. p. 242).