That euery man myght se the token.”
Sig. D i. ed. n. d.
v. 498. wroken] i. e. wreaked.
v. 501. on Gods halfe] i. e. “on God’s part, with God’s favour.” Tyrwhitt’s Gloss. to Chaucer’s Cant. Tales. “A goddes halfe: De par dieu.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. ccccxxxvi. (Table of Aduerbes).
Page 111. v. 503. beshrew] i. e. curse.
v. 506. lampatrams] A word which I am unable to explain.
v. 507. shap] i. e. pudendum: see Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. xxvi. (Table of Subst.). So in a description of purgatory-punishments in the metrical legend of Owayne Myles;
“And some were yn to shappus
And some were vp to the pappus.”