—— a fyest] So Hawes;
“She let no ferte nor yet fyste truelye.”
The Pastime of pleasure, sig. Q viii. ed. 1555.
“A fiest, Tacitus flatus.” Withals’s Dict. p. 343. ed. 1634.
v. 346. wyth shamfull deth] Equivalent to—may you die with a shameful death! see Tyrwhitt’s Gloss. to Chaucer’s Cant. Tales, in v. With.
v. 347. callettes] i. e. trulls, drabs, jades.
v. 348. I shall breake your palettes]—palettes, i. e. crowns, pates. So in a poem by Sir R. Maitland;
“For your rewarde now I sall brek your pallat.”
Anc. Scot. Poems from. Maitl. MSS., ii. 317. ed. Pinkerton,—
who, in the Gloss., wrongly explains it “cut your throat.”