To _groin_ is explained to groan, to grunt, to growl; but perhaps our author may have used it like the French “_Groigner_. To nuzle, or to root with the snout.” Cotgrave’s _Dict._
v. 3. _alle to peuiche_] See note, p. 100. v. 32.
v. 4. _mantycore_] See note, p. 127. v. 294.
—— _maltaperte_] i. e. malapert, (perhaps an error of the transcriber).
_Ye cappyd Cayface copious, your paltoke on your pate,_ _Thow ye prate lyke prowde Pylate, be ware yet of chek mate_]
—_Cayface_, i. e. Caiaphas: _copious_ is perhaps an allusion to some sort of cope, in which that personage might have figured on the stage. The usual explanations of _paltock_ (“_Paltok._ Baltheus,” _Prompt. Parv._; “a short garment of the doublet kind,” Strutt’s _Dress and Habits_, &c. ii. 352) do not seem to suit the present passage. In Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr_., 1530. fol. lii. (Table of Subst.) we find “_Paltocke_ a patche _palleteau_;” and see what immediately follows in this poem: _Thow_, i. e. Though: _chek mate_; see note, p. 96. v. 29.
Compare _The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy_ (see note, p. 177. v. 4)
“Thow irefull attircop, _Pylat_ appostata.” ... ...“_Cayphass_ thy fectour.”
—— _Deu[ra]ndall_] Was the celebrated sword of Roland: see (among other works which might be referred to) Caxton’s _Lyf of Charles the Grete_, &c., 1485, “How Rolland deyed holyly after many martyres and orysons made to god ful deuoutely, and of the complaynte maad for _hys swerde durandal_.” Sig. m i.
v. 11. _Ye countyr vmwhyle to capcyously, and ar ye be dysiryd_]—_countyr_; see note, p. 92: _vmwhyle_, i. e. some time: _to_, i. e. too: _ar_, i. e. ere.
v. 12. _all to-myryd_] See note, p. 100. v. 32,—meaning, I suppose, all befouled.
v. 15. _Gabionyte of Gabyone_] So in his _Replycacion agaynst certayne yong scolers_, &c. Skelton calls them “_Gabaonitæ_,” vol. i. 218.
—— _gane_] “I _Gane_ or gape.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccxliii. (Table of Verbes).
_Mary Magdalene,—An. Mysteries from the Digby MSS._ p. 85. ed. Abbotsf.
“Make rome syrs and let vs be mery With _huffa galand_ synge tyrll on the bery.”
_Interlude of the iiii. Elementes_, n. d. sig. B ii.
In some _Glossary_, to which I have lost the reference, is “_Huff_, a gallant.”