- pardee! "pardee" = "by God", cf.
French "par dieu" As help me God, I
laughe whan I
thynke How
pitously a-nyght I made hem swynke! (III.204–08) "hem"...
- friends, and his
refusal to
attend court: "Now nothing, but pay pay with
laughe and lay
downe Borough,
Citie and
towne good
Springe of
Lanam must count...