192. Kept, supported.

193. Divide in two.

194. Vague, loose.

195. Young.

196. By an error of the press this word is printed "wyghtly" in the original.

197. In a row.

198. Make mouths.

199. Tell a falsehood.

200. See "Popular Antiquities of Great Britain," ii. 305.

201. Air or bar.

202. List.

203. To take hire.

204. Hence it is evident that the audience was to suppose seven years to elapse during the speaking of this soliloquy. The progress of time is elsewhere sufficiently marked.

205. Fellow; here, of course, a mate or mistress.

206. Promised, pret. of _Behete_.

207. Mightily.

208. Hold thee ready; be forward.

209. Watch.

210. Wait on.

211. Where.

212. Placed.

213. Done.

214. Time, occasion.

215. i.e., St. Thomas a. Becket, at Canterbury.

216. Original reads _right of_.

217. _Hende_, Sax.: civil, courteous.

218. _Do_ in the original.

219. Original has _ladies brightest_.

220. Countenance, more literally, colour, complexion; the more correct orthography seems to _blea_--yellow. Some have _rudde_ in the same sense.

221. Samoa.

222. Original has _Ynde the loys_.

223. _Tene_, Sax,: grieve.

224. See Nares, edit. 1859, p. 111.

225. Man.

226. Mated, matched.

227. Made lame.

228. Dream or muse under the branch of a tree.

229. For _necessary_.

230. This term used to be applied indifferently to both s.e.xes.

231. Taken.

232. Belongeth.

233. i.e., _Lout_, or bow.

234. See Hazlitt's "Popular Poetry," i. 264, et seq.

235. Straw.

236. Lend, lean.

237. _King_ seems a misprint here; perhaps _kind_ or _mind_ ought to be subst.i.tuted.

238. Less.

239. If.

240. Fear.

241. Friar.