Note 37 — INTRODUCTION.
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Bene Lightmans, good day. [38] Quarromes, body. [39] Lipken, house. [40] Lypped, slept. [41] Darkemans, night. [42] Lybbege, bed. [43] Strummel, straw. [44] Couched a hogshead, lay down to sleep. [45] Skypper, barn. [46] I towre, I see. [47] Trine, hang. [48] Nachbet, cap. [49] Togman, coat. [50] Salomon, mass. [51] Lage it of, wipe it off. [52] Gage of bene bouse, quart of good drink. [53] Cut to my nose watch, say what you will to me. [54] Lowre, money. [55] Bonge, purse. [56] To bouse, to drink. [57] Flagge, groat. [58] Wyn, penny. [59] Make, halfpenny. [60] Kene, house. [61] Bene mort, good woman. [62] Prauncer, horse. [63] Quyer, bad. [64] Bord, shilling. [65] Beneship, excellent. [66] Dup the gygger, open the door. [67] Maund, ask. [68] Rome bouse, wine. [69] Nase nabes, drunken head. [70] Pecke, meat. [71] Cacling chete, fowl. [72] Grunting chete, pig. [73] Ruff pecke, bacon. [74] Cassan, cheese. [75] Poplarr of yarum, milk porridge. [76] To our watche, for us. [77] Strike some chete, steal something. [78] Quyer cuffen, magistrate. [79] Myll, rob. [80] Bynge we a waste, let us away. [81] Pad, road. [82] Ruffmanes, wood. [83] Harmanes, stocks. [84] Cly the Tarke, be whipped. [85] Quyerken, prison. [86] Skower quyaer crampings, be shackled with bolts and fetters. [87] Chates, gallows. [88] Gerry gan, hold your tongue. [89] Ruffian, devil. [90] Clye the, take thee. [91] Stowe your bene, hold your peace. [92] Cofe, good fellow. [93] Sut benat wydds, speak better words. [94] Rome vyle, London. [95] Nyp a bonge, cut a purse. [96] Bousing ken, alehouse. [97] Deuseauyel, country. [98] Duddes, linen clothes. [99] Ruffemans, hedges. [100] Lagge of dudes, parcel of clothes.