225 Title wodmanship* the business, or skill of a woodsman 5 carren a poor, wretched or worthless beast 7 barren doe without fawns 8 happe luck, chance

225 22 Litteton Sir Thomas Litdeton (1402–81), judge and author of Tenures, the first printed treatise on English law 23 dawe jackdaw, simpleton, fool 25 Fitzharbert Sir Anthony Fitzherbert (1470–1538), judge and author of standard legal reference works 26 Tully Cicero 31 winked aimed 33 catch… grace try to become a courtier 36 rover mark selected for shooting 45 fleareth grins, grimaces

225 49 buttened… gold furnished with gold buttons 50 begarded** adorned with lace, embroidery 51 bumbast padded out 53 Peter pence a tax (abolished in 1534) of a penny per household payable to the See of St Peter, the Roman Church; money for bribery 58 bit bite 64 personage bodily frame, figure 67 flussing Flushing in the Low Countries, where Gascoigne fought in the spring of 1572 73 catchers cp. the proverb ‘catch as catch can’ 75 sakeles sackless, innocent 77 pinch stint painefull hard-working 78 sheare divide 79 stop stoop pray booty, plunder 80 groveling prone, because drunk

225 81 pill pillage 95 constellation stars at birth 96 molde earth 105 Parkyns John Perkins (?–1545), author of a popular legal textbook on conveyancing Rastall John Rastell (1475–1536), legal author, printer, and publisher Dan master Bractens Henry de Bracton (?–1268), author of the first systematic statement of English law, which was published by Tottel (see no. 57) in 1569 108 mawe stomach 109 maystries mastery of arts and sciences 110 pricke bull’s-eye 112 white white part of the target, near the centre

225 116 mule Lord Mayors traditionally rode mules 123 discusse decide 128 standings hunter’s stand 139 sodaine** sudden, suddenness

225 [151] Haud ictus sapio ‘I know nothing of shooting’; ‘ictus’ can mean ‘stress’ or ‘beat’ in poetry as well as ‘shot’