A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume Vii Part 119

we find, "_Pingle_, to pick one's food, to eat squeamishly:" and in Moor's "Suffolk Words" is a similar explanation. See also Jamieson's "Et. Dict. of Scott. Lang."

[282] So second edit. Not in first edit.

[283] So second edit. First edit., _drinke_.

[284] So second edit. First edit., _Nich_.

[285] [This is probably intended to run into verse--

"For when a man doth to Rome come, He must do as there is done."]

[286] [Old copies, _crush_.]

[287] A form of _digest_, common in our early writers.

[288] [This emendation was suggested by Dyce.]

[289] [Old copies, _shape_.]

[290] So second edit. First edit., _fathers_.

[291] So second edit. First edit., _than_.

[292] Edits., _Franke_.

[293] [Old copies, _boye yee_.]

[294] [Old copies, _love capable to_.]

[295] So second edit. First edit., _Maister_.

[296] Some word most probably has dropped out from the line.

[Perhaps _not_.]

[297] So second edit. First edit., _craft_.

[298] A familiar term for the old English broadsword.

[299] The sharp point in the centre of the buckler.

[300] So second edit. First edit., _and_.

[301] [Dyce proposed to read _ont_.]

[302] i.e., Brave.

[303] [Old copies, _strukst_.]

[304] i.e., Manlike, masculine.

[305] See note [218].

[306] i.e., The parson: _Sir_ was a t.i.tle applied to clergymen.

[307] See note [255].

[308] [A line appears to be lost here, probably ending with _selves_, as the whole dialogue is in rhyme.]

[309] i.e., Forester.

[310] Seems to be used here for herd; an unusual meaning of the word.

[See Halliwell's "Diet." _v. Berry_, No. 3.]

[311] So second edit. First edit. _me_.

[312] So second edit. First edit. _th'_.

[313] Edits. _he_.

[314] So second edit. First edit. _thee_.

[315] So second edit. First edit. _thorowly_.

[316] See note [218].

[317] Swoon.

[318] Read, for the metre, _she is_.

[319] Edits., _wone_.

[320] i.e., An _I_ of the Christ-cross row or alphabet.

[321] A term of endearment, formed, perhaps, from _pink_, to wink, to contract the eyelids.

[322] Edits., _sower_.

[323] i.e., A good whip (_whipstock_ is properly the stock or handle of a whip).

[324] A term of endearment, which often occurs in our early dramatists.

[325] Edits., _patient_.

[326] [Old copies, _thy_.]

[327] So second edit. First edit., _cheesse_.

[328] So second edit. First edit., _to_.