Nick_, No. 6.
[228] i.e., By God'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_.
[255] Reprove.
[256] The colophon is: Imprinted at London, in Paules Churche yearde at
the Sygne of the Swane by John Kyng.
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