“Darest thou trye maystries with me a plucke.”
p. 60. Rox. ed.
and a song quoted in the note on our author’s Magnyfycence, v. 757;
“A stoupe of bere vp at a pluk.”
at nale, (atten ale, at then ale; see Price’s note, Warton’s Hist. of E. P. ii. 501. ed. 1824), i. e. at the ale-house.
v. 389. of dyce a bale] i. e. a pair of dice.
v. 390. A brydelynge caste] An expression which I am unable to explain. It occurs (but applied to drinking) in Beaumont and Fletcher’s Scornful Lady;
“Let’s have a bridling cast before you go.
Fill’s a new stoop.”
act ii. sc. 2.