Plette, "whom should I plette" (IP[341],d), plead.

"About eftsoones for to plete,
And bring on you advocacies new?"

—Chaucer, Troilus and Creseide, ii.

Pleyseris, "ye may be pleyseris with the angels above" (M[40],d), so in original: Manly suggests partakers.

Policate, "such a policate wit" (R[213],b), polished: ? a compound of polished + delicate, or a corruption of politic = sharp, clever, well-devised.

Poll, "I see you would poll me" (R[220],c), plunder, pillage, rob.

Populorum, "by his precious populorum" (R[259],b) A coinage of no special worth save a bare record.

Port, "Wealth hath great port" (WH[279],d), carriage, mien, bearing, state. "With another port."—Jacob and Esau, Anon. Pl., 2 Ser. (E.E.D.S.), 72,c. "Keep house, and port, and servants as I should."—Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew (1593), i. 1.

Potestate, "a worthy potestate" (N[71],b), potentate, chief authority. "And whanne thei leeden you unto synagogis and to magistratis and potestatis; nyle ye be bisy how or what ye schulen answere, or what ye schulen scye."—Wycliffe, Luke xii.

Poticary (N[125],a), apothecary: see Heywood, The Four P.P.