target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_115bc041-cd94-540b-a8d1-7e09d69a61cd">[503] fonny] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “fanny.”
[504] Instede of coyne, &c.] In Skelton’s Workes, 1736, the passage is thus exhibited:
“Some instede of coine and monny
Will come and brynge her a conny
Or else a pot with honni
Some a knife and some a spone
Some brynge their hose, some ther shone.”
[505] ran] Rand’s ed. “run,”—rightly, perhaps.
[506] Start] So Rand’s ed. Other eds. “Some start,” the eye of the original compositor having caught the word “Some” from the preceding line.
[507] haruest] So Day’s ed. Other eds. “heruest,” “hernest,” “harnest.”
[508] Layde] So Lant’s ed. Other eds. “Laye,” and “Lay.”
[509] Some brought, &c.] This line not in eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand.)
[510] sallowe] So Lant’s ed. (and Rand’s ed.) Other eds. “swallowe.”
[511] stale] Eds. “stare.” See notes.
[512] met] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, “meate.”
[513] sayne] Lant’s ed. “sayde.”
[514] the peace] Eds. “the dronken peace” (except Rand’s ed., which has “a drunken,” &c.): but no doubt the word “dronken” crept into the original edition by a mistake of the compositor, his eye having caught it in the following line. See notes.
[515] fyll] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “fell.”
[516] bones] Day’s ed. “bornes.”
[517] fylly] Marshe’s ed. (and Rand’s ed.) “silly.” See notes.
[518] brought] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, “brought vp.”
[519] stubbed] So Lant’s ed. Other eds. “stubbled.”
[520] walnuttes] So Lant’s ed. (Rand’s, “walnuts.”) Other eds. “walnutes” and “waluntes.”
[521] stynkes] So other eds. Ed. of Kynge and Marche, “stynges.”
[522] Burdeou] Eds. of Kynge and Marche, and of Lant, “burde on.” Eds. of Day, and Marshe, “bourde on.” (Rand’s ed. “bord on.”)
[523] She] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “Some.”
[524] They] Day’s ed. “The.”
[525] wretchockes] Day’s ed. “wrethockes.” Marshe’s ed. (and Rand’s ed.), “wrethocke.”
[526] dregges] So Marshe’s ed. (and Rand’s ed.) Other eds. “dragges.”
[527] And] Not in eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand).
[528] thy] So Lant’s ed. Other eds. “the.”
[529] wide] So other eds. Ed. of Kynge and Marche, “wyse.”
[530] hedes] Eds. “heddes” and “heds.”
[531] Some of, &c.] The line which rhymed with this has dropt out.
[532] And of, &c.] The line which rhymed with this has dropt out.
[533] fysgygge] So other eds. Ed. of Kynge and Marche, “sysgygge.”
[534] hyght] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, “high.”
[535] croppy] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, (and Rand), “coppy.”
[536] swynged] Marshe’s ed. “swinge.”
[537] lege de moy] So other eds. Ed. of Kynge and Marche, “lege moy.”
[538] awne] So Lant’s ed. Other eds. “owne,” and “one.”
[539] fyngers] So other eds. Ed. of Kynge and Marche, “fynger.”
[540] Invide] Eds. “Inuidi.”
[541] jocis] Eds. “locis.”
[542] qua spurca] Eds. of Day, and Marshe, “quam spuria.”
[543] sua gesta libellus] Ed. of Day, “sua libellus.” Ed. of Marshe, “sua facta libellus.” (The Latin at the end of this
