[155] given less freedom. [156] the kingdom of saints. [157] assembly. [158] scatter, blow about. [159] flying apart. [160] murrain, plague. [161] dispensed with. [162] roundly, completely. [163] the psalms appointed for the Hours of the Blessed Virgin. [164] esteem. [165] admit. [166] hair-breadth. [167] float. [168] sent. [169] moderate cool breezes. [170] choir. [171] _Sic_ in all editions. [172] of not sufficient advantage. [173] Indistinguishable from trifles. [174] off. [175] The earliest reference to a dearth of corn in the reign of Henry VIII. which I can find in Holinshed is _sub anno_ 1523, when he states that the price in London was 20 _s._ a quarter, but without assigning any cause. The reference here is, I think, clearly to the great rains of the autumn of 1527 and April and May, 1528, of which Holinshed writes that they "caused great floods and did much harme namelie in corne, so that the next yeare [1528?] it failed within the realme and great dearth ensued." [176] one. [177] preliminary. [178] moderate, adjust. [179] morass. [180] stands still. [181] the flat fixed stone (or bed stone) over which the turning stone, or _runner_, moved. [182] reviling. [183] decayed. [184] be leaky; misprinted _belyke_ by Kitson. [185] or _jet_ (l. 835), strut. [186] parrot. [187] simpletons. [188] Jesus. [189] trim. [190] smart. [191] guess. [192] Mlle. Simper de Coquette. [193] communicate. [194] wanton. [195] Cf. note on _Roister Doister_, I. iv. 12. _Merygreeke_: "But with whome is he nowe so sadly roundyng yonder?" _Dougerie_: "With _Nobs nicebecetur miserere_ fonde." Explained by Flügel as a contraction of _Nescio quid dicitur_ = Mistress 'What's-her-name.' _Gen. Ed._ [196] At regard, _i.e._ as the object of. [197] perils. [198] sweeter. [199] fetch. [200] thee. [201] In _The Play of Love_, Heywood writes of "bybbyll babbyll, clytter clatter." [202] hospital, lazar-house. [203] rubbing. [204] casualties, chance perquisites. [205] swing to and fro with your heels before the sheriff, as a censer is swung by a thurifer. [206] made arrangements. [207] once. [208] Cardinal Wolsey suggests himself as the person most likely to be thus referred to, but if the reference of l. 636 is to the excessive rain of 1527-28, Wolsey's disgrace followed it rather too closely for the phrase "within this seven yere." [209] Rastell ed., 'whose.' [210] provided. [211] Usually a mere exclamation, but here apparently as if from _non_, not. [212] bargained for. [213] assemblage. [214] oyez, hearken. [215] likely. [216] foolish. [217] plunder. [218] Cf. l. 590, "meane cooles." [219] reached. [220] pressed, have hastened. [221] in order. [222] use. [223] whole. [224] solely. [225] wholly. [226] St. John's copy ends. JOHAN JOHAN