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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_.
