v. 300. blode] i. e. blood.

v. 301. hode] i. e. hood.

v. 308. astate] i. e. estate, state, rank, dignity.

v. 312. foles and dawes] i. e. fools and simpletons; see note, p. 113. v. 301.

v. 313. eke] i. e. also.

v. 315. pletynge] i. e. pleading.

v. 316. Commune Place] i. e. Common Pleas.

[Page 37.] v. 326. huddypeke] See note, p. 255. v. 1176.

v. 327. Thy lernynge is to lewde]—to lewde, i. e. too bad, too mean. So in our author’s Speke, Parrot we find “lewdlye ar they lettyrd.” v. 296. vol. ii. 15.

v. 328. well thewde] i. e. well mannered.