v. 1. tratlers] i. e. prattlers, tattlers.
v. 3. Scalis Malis] i. e. Cadiz. “The tounes men of Caleis, or Caleis males, sodainly rong their common bell,” &c. Hall’s Chronicle (Hen. viii.), fol. xiii. ed. 1548. “His fortunatest piece I esteem the taking of Cadiz Malez.” A Parallel of the Earl of Essex and the Duke of Buckingham,—Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, p. 177. ed. 1672.
Page 135. v. 4. nut shalis] i. e. nutshells.
v. 7. ren] i. e. run.
—— lesinges] i. e. falsehoods.
v. 8. wrate suche a bil] i. e. wrote such a letter.
v. 10. ill apayed] i. e. ill pleased, ill satisfied.
v. 1. hight] i. e. is called.
v. 2. quight] i. e. requite.
v. 5. Although he made it neuer so tough] The expression, to make it tough, i. e. to make difficulties, occurs frequently, and with several shades of meaning, in our early writers; see R. of Gloucester’s Chronicle, p. 510. ed. Hearne, and the various passages cited in Tyrwhitt’s Gloss. to Chaucer’s Cant. Tales in v. Tough. Palsgrave has “I Make it tough I make it coye as maydens do or persons that be strange if they be asked a questyon.” Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. ccxcii. (Table of Verbes).