p. 21. reprint.
v. 1158. canest] i. e. knowest.
v. 1159. mased] i. e. bewildered, confounded.
v. 1165. It forseth not] i. e. It matters not.
v. 1168. Mary] i. e. By the Virgin Mary.
—— sone] i. e. soon.
Page 263. v. 1172. Ye] i. e. Yea.
v. 1175. a farle freke] i. e. a strange fellow: see notes, p. 109. v. 187; p. 178. v. 15.
v. 1176. play well at the hoddypeke]—hoddypeke is a common term of contempt or reproach (as in our author’s Why come ye nat to Courte, v. 326. vol. ii. 37), and is generally equivalent to—fool. The original meaning of the word is altogether uncertain. Steevens (note on Gammer Gurtons Nedle) explains it—hodmandod (shell-snail); and Nares (Gloss. in v.) is inclined to agree with him. In a passage of Dunbar’s Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis (Poems, i. 51. ed. Laing), “hud-pykis” has been explained (on account of the context)—misers. In Cotgrave’s Dict. is “Noddy peke.”
v. 1182. ne reckys] i. e. recks not.