v. 535. _A strawe, sayde Bele, stande vtter_]—_stande vtter_, i. e. stand more out, back.
“_Straw_, quod the thridde, ye ben lewed and nice.”
Chaucer’s _Chanones Yemannes Tale_, v. 16393. ed. Tyr.
“_Stonde vtter_ felowe where doest thou thy curtesy preue?”
_The Worlde and the Chylde_, 1522. sig. B iv.
—— _fysgygge_] “_Trotiere_: A raumpe, _fisgig_, fisking huswife, raunging damsell, gadding or wandring flirt.” Cotgrave’s _Dict._ “_Fiz-gig_, a wild flirting wench.” _Dialect of Craven_, &c.
v. 553. _Wheywormed_] i. e. covered with _whey-worms_,—pimples from which a whey-like moisture exudes.
Page 113. v. 555. _puscull_] i. e. pustule.
v. 556. _muscull_] i. e. muscle,—the shell of which is frequently “scabbyd.”
v. 560. _mote I hoppy_] i. e. may I have good hap.
v. 563. _Haue here is for me_] See note, p. 118. v. 413.
v. 582. _a pryckemedenty_] i. e. one affectedly nice, finical.
_Sat lyke a seynty,_ _And began to paynty_ _As thoughe she would faynty_]
—_seynty_, i. e. saint: _paynty_, i. e. paint,—feign: _faynty_, i. e. faint. Compare our author’s _Colyn Cloute_;
“That counterfaytes and _payntes_ As they were very _sayntes_.”
v. 587. _a lege de moy_] So again in our author’s _Colyn Cloute_;
“And howe Parys of Troy Daunced a _lege de moy_, Made lusty sporte and ioy With dame Helyn the quene.”
I have not found elsewhere the term _lege de moy_. Mace, in his _Musick’s Monument_, 1676, mentions a _Tattle de Moy_,—“a New Fashion’d Thing, much like a Seraband; only It has more of Conceit in It, as (in a manner) speaking the word (Tattle de Moy),” &c. p. 129.
Page 114. v. 594. _I wys_] i. e. truly, certainly (_i-wis_, adv.).
v. 598. _spence_] i. e. store-room, for drink, or victuals: “_Spens_ a buttrye _despencier_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. lxvi. (Table of Subst.).
v. 610. _Neyther gelt nor pawne_] i. e. Neither money nor pledge.
v. 615. _balke_] i. e. beam, post: “_Balke_ of an house _pouste_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xix. (Table of Subst.).
v. 616. _tayle_] i. e. tally. “A payre of _taylles_, suche as folke vse to score vpon for rekennyng.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xiii. (Thirde Boke).
v. 617. _yll hayle_] i. e. ill health,—ill luck,—a common imprecation in our old poetry;