Page 37. v. 174. _hardely_] i. e. assuredly.
v. 175. _but no worde that I sayde_] i. e. but mention not a word that I said.
“As grunting and drinking, _reboking_ vp agayne.”
Barclay’s _Ship of Fooles_, fol. 229. ed. 1570.
v. 181. _at a brayde_] i. e. at a start, at a turn, on a sudden, forthwith.
v. 187. _a soleyne freke_]—_soleyne_, i. e. sullen: _freke_ is here equivalent to—fellow. See Jamieson’s _Et. Dict. of Scot. Lang._ in v. _Freik_, for the various senses in which the word was used.
Page 38. v. 198. _commaunde_] i. e. communed, conversed.
—— _party space_] May mean—a short space; but (as I have noticed _ad loc._) “_party_” is probably a misprint for “_praty_” (pretty).
v. 215. _shryue me_] i. e. confess myself, tell my mind.
v. 221. _with all my besy cure_] i. e. with all my busy care,—a common expression in our early poetry.
v. 226. _all and some_] Another expression frequently used by our early poets. “All and some: _Tout entierement_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. ccccxlviii. (Table of Aduerbes).
v. 228. _he wolde be come_] i. e. he would go.
v. 231. _lyghte as lynde_] So in _Annunciacio_;
“Be ay of chere _as light as_ lefe on _linde_.”
_Lynde_ is properly the linden or lime-tree,—used for a tree in general.
Page 39. v. 232. _a versynge boxe_] Does it mean—a dice-box?
v. 235. _Sythe I am no thynge playne_] i. e. Since I, &c.—the commencement of some song.
v. 236. _pykynge_] i. e. picking, stealing.
v. 245. _and ye wolde it reherse_] i. e. if you would recite it.
Page 40. v. 252. _Heue and how rombelow_] A chorus of high antiquity, (sung chiefly, it would seem, by sailors):
“They sprede theyr sayles as voyde of sorowe Forthe they rowed saynt George to borowe For ioye theyr trumpettes dyde they blowe And some songe _heue and howe rombelowe_.”
“Synge _heaue and howe rombelowe_, trolle on away.”
Burden to the Ballad _On Thomas Lord Cromwell_,—Percy’s _Rel. of A. E. P._, ii. 64. ed. 1794.
Skelton’s _Epitaphe_, &c., v. 61. vol. i. 171.
“They rowede hard, and sungge thertoo, With _heuelow and rumbeloo_.”
_Richard Coer de Lion_,—Weber’s _Met. Rom._ ii. 99.
“Maydens of Englande sore may ye morne For your lemmans ye haue loste at Bannockys borne, Wyth _heue a lowe_. What weneth the king of England So soone to haue wone Scotland, Wyth _rumbylowe_.”