505. On thys castell lyght, 1st edit.
506. This, edit. 1569. 507. Our, 1st edit.
508. The edit. of 1569 has this line—
"And done more cures ghostely."—Collier.
509. [Mr Child observes: "The Pardoner's descent into hell, in the 'Four P.P.,' is one of the most capital passages in our comic poetry" ("Four Old Plays," 1848, xxvi.)]
510. A beck, among other significations, has that of a salutation with the head. So, in Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens"—
"_A serving of becks, and jutting out of bums_."—S.
511. Thys, 1st edit.
512. "Before the suppression of the monasteries, this city (i.e., Coventry) was very famous for the pageants that were played therein upon Corpus Christi day (this is one of their ancient faires), which occasioning very great confluence of people thither from far and near, was no small benefit thereto; which pageants being acted with mighty state and reverence by the friers of this house, had theaters for the several scenes very large and high, placed upon wheels, and drawn to all the eminent parts of the city, for the better advantage of spectators, and contained the story of the New Testament, composed in old English rithme, as appeareth by an ancient MS. entitled 'Ludus Corporis Christi,' or 'Ludus Coventriae,' in Bibl. Cotton, (sub Effigie Vesp. D. 9)" (Dugdale's "Warwickshire," p. 116). [See the "Coventry Mysteries," edited by Halliwell, 1841.]
513. Addition in the 2d edit.