“Welchman’s hose. Equivalent, I imagine, to the breeches of a Highlander, or the dress of a naked Pict; upon the presumption that Welchmen had no hose.” Nares’s Gloss. in v. Unfortunately, however, for this ingenious conjecture, the expression is found varied to “shipman’s hose,”—which certainly cannot be considered as a non-entity. “Hereunto they adde also a Similitude not very agreeable, how the Scriptures be like to a Nose of Waxe, or a Shipmans Hose: how thei may be fashioned, and plied al manner of waies, and serue al mennes turnes.” Jewel’s Defence of the Apologie, &c. p. 465. ed. 1567. “And not made as a shippe mans hose to serue for euery legge.” Wilson’s Arte of Rhetorike, p. 102. ed. 1580. Surely Welshman’s hose (as well as shipman’s) became proverbial from their pliability, power of being stretched, &c.
v. 784. broke] i. e. brook.
v. 785. loke] i. e. look.
v. 786. boke] i. e. book.
Page 342. v. 800. the brode gatus] Means perhaps, Broadgates Hall, Oxford, on the site of which Pembroke College was erected.
v. 801. Daupatus] i. e. Simple-pate: see note, p. 113. v. 301.
v. 803. Dronhen as a mouse] So Chaucer;
“We faren as he that dronke is as a mous.”
The Knightes Tale, v. 1263. ed. Tyr.
v. 805. his pyllyon and his cap]—pyllyon, from Lat. pileus. Compare Barclay;