"Besides he's deft and wondrous airy, And of the noblest of the fairy! Chiefe of the Crickets of much fame In fairy a most ancient name." So in _Merry Wives_, v. 5, l. 47. [118] Quy. What kind o' God, &c. [119] "There is a kind of crab-tree also or _wilding_ that in like manner beareth twice a yeare." Holland's Plinie, b. xvi. [120] "Assoyle" usually = _absolve_; here _resolve, explain_. [121] The italics are my own, as I suppose that the four lines were intended to be sung. [122] 4to. It is, it is not, &c. [123] The sense of "fine, rare," rather than that of "frequent, abundant" (as Nares explains), would seem to suit the passages in Shakespeare and elsewhere where the word is used colloquially. [124] "Sib" = akin. Possibly the word still lingers in the North Country: Sir Walter Scott uses it in the _Antiquary_, &c. [125] "Wonning" sc. dwelling (Germ. wohnen). Spenser frequently uses the word. [126] A Spenserian passage (as Mr. Collier has pointed out): vid. F.Q., B. 2. C. xii. 71. [127] 4to. then. [128] 4to. And here she woman. [129] "Caul" = part of a lady's head-dress: "reticulum crinale vel retiolum," Withals' Dictionarie, 1608 (quoted by Nares). [130] "The battaile. The Combattantes Sir Ambrose Vaux, knight, and Glascott the Bayley of Southwarke: the place the Rule of the Kings Bench." [131] In some copies the name "John Kirke" is given in full. [132] _Bottom_ = a ball of worsted. George Herbert in a letter to his mother says: "Happy is he whose _bottom_ is wound up, and laid ready for work in the New Jerusalem." So in the _Virgin Martyr_ (v. 1),--"I, before the Destinies my _bottom_ did wind up, would flesh myself once more upon some one remarkable above all these." [133] 4to. your. [134] Cf. the catalogue of torments in the _Virgin Martyr_ (v. 1). [135] The 4to prints the passage thus:-- "I have now livd my full time; Tell me, my _Henricke_, thy brave successe, That my departing soule May with thy story," &c. Several times further on I shall have to alter the irregular arrangement of the 4to in order to restore the blank verse; but I shall not think it necessary to note the alteration. [136] 4to, Horne. [137] 4to, Aloft. [138] The 4to gives '_The_ further,' and in the next line '_Or_ further.' [139] The whole of this scene is printed as verse in the 4to. I have printed the early part as prose, that the reader's eye may not be vexed by metrical monstrosities. [140] Sharpe i.e. sword. Vid. Halliwell's Dictionary. [141] 4to. field.