Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

4 NOTES.367. Sfainyardes onyons, Spanish onions, i. e. Spanish people, whomSkellon calls Spanish onions for the sake of a rime, and because theseonions are well-known by the name Spanish.,^74. 'Mutrell is Montreuil [in the extreme north of France, not far fromCrety and Agincourt ]; and the allusion must be to some attack intendedor actual on that town, of which I tan find no account agreeingwith the date of the present poem.'—D.380. • I.e. for dread that the Cardinal, Wolsey, take offence." He taketh pepper in the nose, that I complayneVpon his faultes."Heywood's Dialogue, &c. sig. G. ;3S2. Hede of gose, head goes off.Workes, ed. 1598,'—D.401. Hampton Court; 'the palace of Wolsey, which he afterwards,w ith all its magnificent furniture, presented to the king.'— D.'407. Yorkes Place ; the palace of Wolsey, as Archbishop of York,which he had furnished in the most sumptuous manner : after his disgrace,it became a royal residence under the name of Whitehall.'—D.417. 7'rt«crg/f, transcript. Roquefort has ' 7'a«c?-f; ; Transcrit, copie.'425. Hym lyst, it pleases him.427. Saunz, i.e. satis, without.Aulter is the Old Fr. aultre, now spelt autre, other.429. Marshalsy.'The highway from St. Margaret's Hill to NewingtonCauseway is called Blackmati Street, on the east side of which is theMarshalsea, which is both a court of law and a prison.'— Hughson'sWalks through London, p. 325. 'At the south-west corner of Blackmanstreet,in the road to the obelisk, St. George's Fields, is situated theKing's Bench Prison, fordebtors, and every one sentenced by the Courtof King's Bench.'—lb. p. 327. See Dickens's ' Little Dorrit.'434' Vndermynde, undermine. Cf. sound for Old Eng. soivne, Fr. son.438. ' Coarted, i. e. coarcted, confined.'—D.Streatly means narrowly, closely.449. Bereih on hand, ' i. e. leads on to a belief, persuades. See Chaucer,Wif of Bathes Prol. 11. 232, 380, 393, &c. " He is my countre man : ashe beretb me an bande—vW mihi vult persuasum."sig. X viii. ed. 1530.'—D.Hormanni Vulgaria,463. CtEciam, probably another form of ccecitatetn. Mr. Dyce quotesfrom Du Cange, ' Ccecia, (r/toToSivia,' i. e. a vertigo with loss of sight.A orcitate. Sec This refers to the phrase in the Litany, ' Fromall blindness of heart,' &c.475. Amalecke, Amalekite ; cf. i Sam. xv. 3.47'>. Mamelek, i.e. a Mameluke. The Mamehi'kes were mercenaryhorse-soldiers employed by the Turks. They afterwards made them-