[Line: 4 _1677_, &c. 'Ape', but 'Ap' in the Welsh sense (Welsh having just been mentioned) does well enough. It would go, not too roughly for Cleveland's syntax, with 'conjurer'. Let some wizard, descended from all these, _and therefore knowing all tongues_, translate.] [Line: 6 This is rather interesting. Does it refer to Wessex or Devonshire dialect of the day, or to old West Saxon? Junius did not edit Cædmon till fourteen years later, but there was study of Anglo-Saxon from Parker's time at Cambridge.] [Line: 7 the brotherhood] 'Brother' and 'sister' being constant sneers at the Puritan. play their prizes] = 'fight'.] [Line: 10 Perhaps another sneer at the 'train-bands' of the City.] [Line: 15 'distinctly' _1677_.] [Line: 16 '_in_ a' _1677_.] [Line: 18 I suppose _à la mode_, which is in _1677_, is right; but the '_all_-a-mode' of _1647_, _1651_, _1653_ is tempting.] [Line: 20 'murnival' or 'mournival'. Four aces, kings, &c., especially at gleek.] [Line: 22 _1677_, &c. 'Or like _the College_'.] [Line: 24 'h_a_llow' _1653_.] [Line: 25 I knew not this monster, and suspected that he would not be a delicate monster to know. But Mr. Thorn-Drury has found him in the _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1777, p. 482. Lazarus Collondo, a Genoese, had a small brother growing out of his side, with one leg, two arms, &c., &c.] [Line: 29 'Smec' will now be an even greater attraction at the Sturbridge fair at Cambridge. All fairs rejoiced in monsters.] [Line: 36 '_The_ change', as in _1647_, _1651_, _1653_ and its group, including the _Rump_ version, is not so good as 'her', which _1677_ reads.] [Line: 38 i.e. 'to go on to any _other_ body'.] [Line: 40 'Purlieu' seems to be used in the sense of 'precinct' or 'province'.] [Lines: 41-2 These lines are in all the seventeenth-century editions I have seen, but not in Mr. Berdan's. The Scots pound was of course only twenty English pence, and so the mark (two thirds) 'shrank' accordingly.] [Line: 49 _1647_, _1651_, _1677_ insert 'a' before 'sheet'. The metaphor is probably as old as hunting. 'Spend', as Professor Case reminds me, has had already in _The Miser_, l. 67, the sense of 'give tongue'. 'Scanned their feet' for 'kept pace' is good enough; but why the five should leap a truss, and why this should be litigious, I again frankly confess myself to have been ignorant. Mr. Simpson, however, quotes R. Fletcher in _Ex Otio Negotium_, 1656, p. 202, 'The model of the new Religion': How many Queere-religions? clear your throat, May a man have a penyworth? four a groat? Or do the _Iuncto_ leap at truss a fayle? Three tenents clap while five hang on the tayle?