This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...hood." Tom Tyler and his Wife, p. 5. ed. 1661. v. 1131. be tyme i. e. by time. v. 1134. praty i. e. pretty. v. 1136. Aungey Does it mean Angers, or Anjou? v. 1142. gate i. e. got. v. 1143. puddynges See note, p. 117. v. 443. wortes Is here, I suppose, equivalent to--cabbages. v. 1147. marmosete A kind of ape, or monkey ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...hood." Tom Tyler and his Wife, p. 5. ed. 1661. v. 1131. be tyme i. e. by time. v. 1134. praty i. e. pretty. v. 1136. Aungey Does it mean Angers, or Anjou? v. 1142. gate i. e. got. v. 1143. puddynges See note, p. 117. v. 443. wortes Is here, I suppose, equivalent to--cabbages. v. 1147. marmosete A kind of ape, or monkey. Page 54. v. 1148. tapes i. e. jests, jokes. v. 1150. pultre i. e. poultry, fowl. catell i. e. beast. v. 1154. rode i. e. rood, cross: see note, p. 159. v. 69. v. 1157. nyfyls A word sufficiently explained by the context, and of frequent occurrence. So in A Mery Play between Johan the Husbande, Tyb his Wyfe, and Syr Jhan the Preest, 1533, attributed to Heywood; " By God, I wolde ye had harde the tryfyls, The toys, the mokkes, the fables, and the nyfyls, That I made thy husbande to beleve and thynke." p. 21. reprint. Page 54. v. 1158. canest i. e. knowest. v. 1159. mased i. e bewildered, confounded. v. 1165. It forseth not i. e. It matters not. Page 55. v. 1172. Ye i. e. Yea. v. 1175. a farle freke i. e. a strange fellow: see notes, p. 18. v. 29; p. 32. v. 168. v. 1176. play well at the hoddypeke--hoddypeke is a common term of contempt or reproach (as in our author's Why come ye nat to Courte, v. 326. vol. ii. 28 7), and is generally equivalent to--fool. The original meaning of the word is altogether uncertain. Steevens (note on Gammer Gurtons Nedle (explains it--hodmandod (shell-snail); and Nares Gloss. in v.) is inclined to agree with him. Qy. compounded of hoddy, i. e. doddy, stupid, and peke, fool? In a passage of Dunbar's Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis (Poems, i. 51. ed. Laing), " hud-pykis " has been explained (on account of the context)--misers. In Cotgrave's Diet. is " Noddy peke." v. 1182. ne recky...
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