—— mell] i. e. meddle.
v. 1164. Allygate] i. e. Allege.
v. 1170. lurdeyne] See note, p. 242. v. 423.
v. 1171. Lytell Ease] “Little Ease (prison), mala mansio, arcæ robustæ.” Coles’s Dict.—“Little-Ease. A familiar term for a pillory, or stocks; or an engine uniting both purposes, the bilboes.” Nares’s Gloss.
v. 1178. rechelesse] i. e. reckless.
Page 357. v. 1184. Poules Crosse] i. e. Paul’s Cross.
v. 1186. Saynt Mary Spyttell] In Bishopsgate Ward: see Stow’s Survey, B. ii. 97. ed. 1720.
v. 1187. set not by vs a whystell] i. e. value us not at a whistle, care not a whistle for us. Compare Lydgate;
“For he set not by his wrethe a whistel.”
The prohemy of a mariage, &c.,—MS. Harl. 372. fol. 45.