Pike, "pike thee home" (WS[157],a)—"they bad me pike me home" (R[256],a), walk, be off, get home. Mr. Magnus glosses the Respublica example, "pick." "He bad them then go pyke them home."—Ane Ballat of Matrymonie (c. 1570) in Laing, Pop. Poet. Scotland, ii. 77.
Pip, "God send them both the pip" (R[215],c), properly a disease peculiar to poultry and the like, but frequently used jocosely by old writers for various diseases in human beings, specifically, however, of the pox. "I have a master: I wolld he had ye pyppe."—Play Sacram (c. 1460), 525.
Piss, see Rods.
Plain, "did not ich plain me to you?" (R[229],d), complain, lament, bewail.
"Erles & barons at ther first samnyng,
For many maner resons pleyned of the king."
—Robert de Brunne, p. 312.
Players (The names of the). The following references to Players' Names in this volume and the Play in which they occur may be of service.
Abstinence (N); Abundance (IP); Actio (JE); Adulation (R); Avarice (R).
Bodily Lust (N).