[59.] Dutch Schrobben, To Rubb, to Scrape, to Scratch. Hexham.
[60.] Iettyn verno. P. Parv. Mr Way quotes from Palsgrave, “I iette, I make a countenaunce with my legges, ie me iamboye,” &c.; and from Cotgrave, “Iamboyer, to iet, or wantonly to go in and out with the legs,” &c.
[61.] grinding.
[62.] gnastyn (gnachyn) Fremo, strideo. Catholicon. Gnastyng of the tethe—stridevr, grincement. Palsg. Du. gnisteren, To Gnash, or Creake with the teeth. Hexham.
[63.] Short coats and tight trousers were a great offence to old writers accustomed to long nightgown clothes. Compare Chaucer’s complaint in the Canterbury Tales, The Parsones Tale, De Superbiâ, p. 193, col. 2, ed. Wright. “Upon that other syde, to speke of the horrible disordinat scantnes of clothing, as ben these cuttid sloppis or anslets, that thurgh her schortnes ne covereth not the schamful membre of man, to wickid entent. Alas! som men of hem schewen the schap and the boce of the horrible swollen membres, that semeth like to the maladies of hirnia, in the wrapping of here hose, and eek the buttokes of hem, that faren as it were the hinder part of a sche ape in the fulle of the moone.” The continuation of the passage is very curious. “Youre schort gownys thriftlesse” are also noted in the song in Harl. MS. 372. See Weste, [Booke of Demeanour, l. 141], below.
[64.] Fr. tache, spot, staine, blemish, reproach. C.
[65.] sobriety, gravity.
[66.] Edward IV. had ‘Bannerettes IIII, or Bacheler Knights, to be kervers and cupberers in this courte.’ H. Ord., p. 32.
[67.] See the [Termes of a Keruer] in Wynkyn de Worde’s Boke of Keruynge below.
[68.] to embrew. Ferrum tingere sanguine. Baret.