v. 251. ale stake] i. e. stake set up before an ale-house by way of sign.
v. 252. welcome hake and make] An expression which I have not elsewhere met with. Ray gives among North Country words, “To hake, To sneak, or loiter:” in Hunter’s Hallam. Gloss. is “A haking fellow, an idle loiterer;” and in a song cited by Mr. J. P. Collier (Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poet., ii. 472) from a MS. drama called Misogonus by T. Richards, we find,—
“With Bes and Nell we love to dwell
In kissinge and in hakinge.”
—make is common in the sense of—mate, companion.
Page 321. v. 262. stylla] i. e. still.
v. 263. wylla] i. e. will.
v. 264. pekes] See note, p. 129. v. 409.
v. 266. faute] i. e. fault.
v. 267. apposed] i. e. questioned, examined. “He was apposed, or examyned of his byleue. De religione appellatus est.” Hormanni Vulgaria, sig. D ii. ed. 1530.