[99] A "Hunts up" was a hunting song, a réveillée, to rouse the hunters. An example of a "_Hunts up_" may be found, set to music by J. Bennet, in a collection of Ravenscroft, 1614. [100] Quy. "kind;" but our author is not very particular about his rhymes. [101] "Rascal" was the regular name for a lean deer (_As You like It_, iii. 3, &c.). [102] The whole scene is printed as verse in the 4to. [103] This very uncommon word (French: légèreté) occurs in _Henry V_. (iv. i. l. 23). [104] More commonly written "cote," a cottage. [105] To "draw dry foot" meant to follow by the scent. (_Com. of Errors_, iv. 2.) [106] No doubt the writer had in his mind the description of "Morpheus house" in the _Faerie Queene_ (Book i., Canto I). [107] "Whisht" (more commonly "whist") = hushed, stilled. Cf. Milton, _Ode on the Nativity_:-- "The winds with wonder _whist_ Smoothly the waters kist." [108] "Plancher" (Fr. planche) = a plank. Cf. _Arden of Feversham_, I. i. "Whilst on the _planchers_ pants his weary body," Shakespeare (_Measure for Measure_, iv. 1) has "a _planched_ gate." [109] "Incontinent" = immediately. The expression is very common (_Richard II_., v. 6, &c.). [110] These verses and Frisco's "Can you blow the little horne"? are evidently fragments of Old Ballads--to be recovered, let us hope, hereafter. [111] These four lines are from the old ballad of _Fortune my foe_, which will be found printed entire in the _Bagford Ballads_ (Ed. J.W. Ebsworth, part iv. pp. 962-3); the music is given in Mr. W. Chappell's _Popular Music of the Olden Time_, I. 162. Mr. Ebsworth writes me:-- "I have ascertained (assuredly) that what I at first thought to be a reference to 'Fortune my foe' in the Stationers' Registers, 1565-66, entered to John Charlewood (_Arber's Transcripts_, l. 310), as 'of one complaining of ye mutabilitie of Fortune' is _not_ 'Fortune my foe,' but one of Lempill's ballads, printed by R. Lekpriwicke (_sic_), and still extant in the Huth Collections--the true title being 'Ane Complaint vpon Fortoun;' beginning 'Inconstant world, fragill and friuolus.'" [112] Nares quotes from Chapman's _May Day_, "Lord, how you roll in your _rope-ripe_ terms." Minshew explains the word as "one ripe for a rope, or for whom the gallows groans." I find the expression "to rowle in their ropripe termes" in William Bullein's rare and curious "Dialogue both pleasaunt and pietiful," 1573, p. 116. [113] A very common term for a pimp. [114] "Bale of dice"--a pair of dice; the expression occurs in the _New Inn_, I. 3, &c. [115] This song is set to music in an old collection by Ravenscroft, 1614. [116] More usually written "mammets," i.e., puppets (_Rom. & Jul_. iii. 5; though, no doubt, in _Hen. IV_., ii. 3, Gifford was right in connecting the word with Lat. mamma). [117] Cf. Drayton's _Fairy Wedding_:--