v. 974. crake] i. e. vaunt, talk bigly.
v. 975.
he wolde than make
The deuyls to quake]
So Roy in his satire against Wolsey, Rede me, and be nott wrothe, &c.;
“Yf he be as thou hast here sayde,
I wene the devils will be afrayde
To have hym as a companion;
For what with his execracions,
And with his terrible fulminacions,