v. 104. _Marche harum_] i. e. March hare.
v. 110. _to halow there the fox_]—_halow_, i. e. halloo. “Men blewe the hornes and cryed and _halowed the foxe_.” _Reynard the Fox_, sig. h 5. ed. 1481.
Page 159. v. 114. _lectryne_] “_Lecterne_ to syng at.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xliiii. (Table of Subst.).
“Sum syng at the _lectorne_ with long eares lyke an asse.”
Or simply, a reading-desk: see note on v. 120.
v. 116. _With, troll, cytrace, and trouy_] So in _Apius and Virginia_, by R. B., 1575;
“_With_ hey tricke, how _trowle_, trey trip, and trey _trace_.”
v. 117. _hankin bouy_] Compare _Thersytes_, n. d.;
“And we wyll haue minstrelsy that shall pype _hankyn boby_.”
and Nash’s _Haue with you to Saffron-walden_, 1596; “No vulgar respects haue I, what Hoppenny Hoe and his fellow _Hankin Booby_ thinke of mee.” Sig. K 2: and Brome’s _Joviall Crew_, 1652; “he makes us even sick of his sadness, that were wont to see my Ghossips cock to day, mould Cocklebread, daunce clutterdepouch and _Hannykin booby_, binde barrels, or do any thing before him, and he would laugh at us.” Act ii. sc. i. sig. D 2.
Page 159. v. 119. _fawconer_] i. e. falconer.
vv. 120, 121. _gospellers_ ... _pystillers_] “_Gospellar_ that syngeth the gospell.” “_Pysteller_ [Epistler] that syngeth the masse.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fols. xxxvii., liiii. (Table of Subst.). But in our author’s _Phyllyp Sparowe_ we find,
“Shal _rede the Gospell_ at masse ... Shal _rede_ there _the pystell_.”
and see Todd’s Johnson’s _Dict._ in vv. _Gospeller_, _Epistler_.
v. 125. _gydynge_] “He controlled my lyuynge and _gydynge_.... _mores_.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. N vi. ed. 1530.
“Wise women has wayis, and wonderfull _gydingis_.”
Dunbar’s tale of _The Tua Maryit Wemen and the Wedo_,—_Poems_, i. 77. ed. Laing.
v. 127. _The rode with Mary and John_] See note on v. 69. p. 206.
v. 129. _daw_] i. e. simpleton; see note, p. 113. v. 301.
v. 137. _hawkis bels_] i. e. the bells attached to the feet of the hawk.
v. 138. _losels_] i. e. good-for-nothing fellows,—the same as _lorels_, which has several times occurred before (see note, p. 132. v. 488, &c.): “Lorell or _losell_ or lurdeyn.” _Prompt. Parv._ ed. 1499. “Lorrell or _losell_.” Palsgrave’s _Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr._, 1530. fol. xlv. (Table of Subst.).