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FOOTNOTES:
[1] The "Interlude of Youth." From the rare black-letter edition,
printed by Waley about the year 1554. Edited by James Orchard
Halliwell, Esq. ... Brixton Hill, 1849, 4to. 75 copies privately
printed.
[2] Apparently of an otherwise undescribed edition. See Hazlitt's
"Handbook," p. 464.
[3] Part asunder.
[4] _hearte_, Waley's ed.
[5] [Waley's and Copland's eds., _fair_.]
[6] Hinder.
[7] Regret.
[8] A line, rhyming with this, seems to have dropped out.
[9] Solve.
[10] [Old copies, _Sir_.]
[11] [Old copies, _i-wis_.]
[12] See Hazlitt's "Popular Poetry," iv., 239.
[13] Found.
[14] [Vele's ed. _nilet_.]
[15] [Intended as a sneer at Charity's pious sentiments. _Sir John_ is
the common term in old plays, and literature generally, for a parson.]
[16] Cool.
[17] [Trumpington is in Essex, a county proverbial, rightly or wrongly,
for the stupidity of its inhabitants.]
[18] [Equivalent to calling him a churl. See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869,
pp. 315-316 and 489; and Halliwell's "Dictionary," _v_. Hogsnorton. But
in none of the instances cited there do we find Trumpington mentioned.]
[19] See "Popular Antiquities of Great Britain," ii. 286.
[20] "Popular Antiquities of Great Britain," ii. 315.
[21] Should we not read _Hey-go-bet_?
[22] See Hazlitt's "Popular Poetry," iii. 73-4.
[23] _Post and pair_.
[24] [We do not find this mentioned elsewhere.
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