[Line: 5 Cleveland gibed at Sternhold and Hopkins in prose (_The Character of a London Diurnall_) as well as verse. _1647_, _1651_ misprint 'rhythm'.] [Line: 11 The text, from _1677_, is a clear improvement at first sight on the earlier '_This_ is _a_ feast': though I would not be too sure that Cleveland did not write it thus.] [Line: 16 _1677_ '_the_ heavenly'.] [Line: 17 _1677_ 'he made'.] [Line: 18 Meaning, apparently, that, as was the custom, the table between these sham feast-days was moved off its trestles and cleared away; but the feast was a 'standing' one, kept to reappear.] [Line: 20 in th'] i' th' _1647_, _1651_.] [Line: 26 is] it _1647_, _1651_.] [Line: 28 _1677_ 'Whe_re_'.] [Line: 29 Stout] What _1651_, _1653_.] [Line: 31 _1677_ '_the_ roast'.] [Line: 34 carves] One edition, of no value (_1665_), '_se_rves'.] [Line: 35 soul] fool _1677_.] [Line: 38 Lancaster, because of the Lancashire witches. See Heywood, _Lancashire Witches_, Act V.] [Line: 39 Morglay] The sword of Bevis.] [Line: 43 'Tis] It's _1677_.] [Line: 44 'him' _1647_: 'them' _1651_, _1653_.] [Line: 46 These lines appear with some variants and are not clear in any text: 'which he had cluck'd under his wing' _1677_, for the earlier 'when he hath clock't under her wing' _1647_, _1651_, _1653_. Professor Case suggests 'cloakt' (i.e. 'hidden') for 'clock't'.] [Line: 50 Mr. Berdan says, '_Englishmen supposed_ that the Scotch did not eat pork'. But, until quite recently, it was a fact; and even now there is much less eaten north than south of the Tweed. As for Cleveland's day, James the First's aversion to it was well known and had been celebrated by Ben Jonson. In _1647_, _1651_, _1653_ 'But not a mouth is muzzled by the Jew'.] [Line: 51-2 Not in earlier editions. Added in _1677_.] [Line: 54 _1677_ 'margin of _his_ dish'.] [Line: 55 _1647_, _1651_, _1653_, &c. omit 'care' and read 'tells them'.] [Line: 59 _1677_ 'Thou that didst'.] [Line: 60 'turned thine' _1677_, _1687_: 'turn'st thy' _1647_, _1651_, _1653_, &c. mull] Dialectic for 'cow', especially as a call-name. It seems to be connected with the sense of the word for 'lips', especially large loose ones.] [Line: 61 _1677_ allay my grief, O spare me this, this monumental beef. ] [Line: 66 'hath' _1677_, _1687_: 'has' _1651_, _1653_ and its group.] [Line: 73 'may' _1651_, _1653_, &c.: 'we' _1677_.] [Lines: 79, 80 Added in _1677_ &c., with very doubtful advantage.] A Young Man to an Old Woman courting him.