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[207] Spring.
[208] Calicow or Calicut, i.e., Calcutta.
[209] Shut.
[210] Original has _I_.
[211] [The colophon is: Imprinted at London in Lothbury by me Wyllyam Copland. The only copy known, formerly Inglis's and Heber's, is now in the Devons.h.i.+re collection.
The piece is undated, but it was licensed for the press in 1562-3.]
[212] Nursled.
[213] [Pets. See Halliwell's "Dictionary," _v. Tiddle_.]
[214] [I do not find this word in any other glossaries; but it occurs again below.]
[215] Old copy, _Kynge_.
[216] Trudging.
[217] Thirst.
[218] So in old copy, which is perhaps right. _To-to_, as an intensitive, is a common form.
[219] Are jealous of them.
[220] Barnabas.
[221] Old copy, _Gupliade_.
[222] This word, as a verb, has occurred above. It is evidently used in a bad sense, to signify an idle, _loafing_ person.
[223] Mistress.
[224] Old copy, _an_.
[225] Old copy, _a leaven_.
[226] Altogether.
[227] i.e., Do ye nick a cast! See Halliwell, _v. Nick_, No. 6.
[228] i.e., By G.o.d's wounds, a common phrase.
[229] Care.
[230] A term of contempt. A skinflint, a curmudgeon.
[231] Pet, spoil.
[232] Old copy, _no_.
[233] Old copy, _your_.
[234] Old copy, _you_.
[235] Old copy, _siker_, i.e., certainly, securely.
[236] Old copy, _whaler_.
[237] Old copy, _or_.
[238] Jury. Compare Hazlitt's "Popular Poetry," ii. 149.
[239] Here probably the word means literally _briber_; but _bribour_ also means _a thief_. See Way's edition of the "Promptorium," p. 50, and Halliwell in _v. Brybe_ and _brybour_.
[240] Old copy, _intided_.
[241] In the old copy, this and the following line are transposed, and some of the speeches are wrongly addressed.
[242] Old copy, _in_.
[243] Old copy, _none_.
[244] Old copy, _hanged_.
[245] Old copy, _neder_.
[246] Old copy, _ever_.
[247] Swoon.
[248] See Hazlitt's "Popular Poetry," iv. 239. The term _goldylocks_, curiously enough, seems to have been in early use in a contemptuous or bad sense.
[249] Old copy, _bid_.
[250] Old copy, _exhorting_.
[251] Old copy, _yea_.
[252] Old copy, _is_.
[253] Old copy, _cam me mery?_
[254] This marginal note has partly been cut off by the binder:--
resyng, _answer- ing other t always_ staff, , ysing to _other_.
