163. Comrade, friend.
164. Ale-stake, a maypole, a sign before an alehouse. Chaucer, in "The Pardoner's Prologue," calls it ale-stake—
"But first, quod he, here at this ale-stake
I wil both drynke and byten on a cake."
—Bell's Chaucer, iii. 68.
165. Query, an euphemism for theft.
166. Nearest.
167. The colophon is: Enprynted by me Wynken de Worde.
168. Mr Child, in "Four Old Plays," Cambridge, U.S., 1848.
169. Old copy reads shepe.
170. Owneth.
171. Mistrust.