_Betwene my brestes softe_ _It wolde lye and rest_]
So Catullus, in the beginning of his verses _Ad Passerem Lesbiæ_, (a distinct poem from that mentioned at p. 120);
“Passer, deliciæ meæ puellæ, Quicum ludere, _quem in sinu tenere_,” &c.
v. 127. _It was propre and prest_] Compare v. 264, “As _prety_ and as _prest_,” where “prety” answers to “propre” in the present line. “_Proper_ or feate. _coint_, _godin_, _gentil_, _mignot_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._ 1530. fol. xciii. (Table of Adiect.):—_prest_, which generally means—ready, seems here to be nearly synonymous with _propre_; and so in a passage of Tusser,—“more handsome, and _prest_,”—cited by Todd (_Johnson’s Dict._ in v.), who explains it “neat, tight.”
v. 137. _gressop_] i. e. grasshopper.—“_Cicada_ ... anglice _a gresse hoppe_.” _Ortus Vocab._, fol. ed. W. de Worde, n. d.
v. 138. _Phyp, Phyp_] See note on v. 7. p. 121.
v. 147. _dome_] i. e. judgment, thinking.
v. 148. _Sulpicia_] Lived in the age of Domitian. Her satire _De corrupto statu reipub. temporibus Domitiani, præsertim cum edicto Philosophos urbe exegisset_, may be found in Wernsdorf’s ed. of _Poetæ Latini Minores_, iii. 83.
Page 56. v. 171. _perde_] i. e. _par dieu_, verily.
v. 173. _nyse_] i. e. foolish, inclined to folly, to toyish tricks: compare our author’s _Manerly Margery_, &c., v. 2. vol. i. 28.
v. 176. _To pyke my lytell too_]—_too_, i. e. toe.—In a comedy (already mentioned, p. 93. v. 15), _The longer thou liuest, the more foole thou art_, &c., n. d., by W. Wager, Moros sings
“I haue a prety tytmouse Come _picking on my to_.”
v. 186. _ryde and go_] A sort of pleonastic expression which repeatedly occurs in our early writers.
Page 57. v. 192. _Pargame_] i. e. Pergamus.
v. 205. _be quycke_] i. e. be made alive.
Page 57. v. 211. _the nones_] i. e. the occasion.
v. 213. _My sparow whyte as mylke_] Compare Sir P. Sidney;
“They saw a maid who thitherward did runne, To catch her sparrow which from her did swerue, As shee a black-silke Cappe on him begunne To sett, for foile of his _milke-white_ to serue.”
v. 242. _bederoule_] See note on v. 12. p. 122.
v. 244. _Cam, and Sem_] i. e. Ham, and Shem.
v. 247. _the hylles of Armony_]—_Armony_, i. e. Armenia.—So in _Processus Noe_;