[712] Ed. 1575 _bauet not i_. [713] Ed. 1575 _moned_. [714] (I) make. [715] t'other, the other. [716] Ed. 1575 _The ii Acte. The iiii Sceane._ [717] anxiety. [718] In Colwell's edition this scene extends to the end of the act. There should probably be a division after line 63, and again after line 105 (as in Professor Manly's edition), but we have retained the original arrangement. [719] went. [720] Ed. 1575, _worthe_. [721] ere, before. [722] M. begins a new scene here; H. says it should begin at line 68. [723] Brewing trough. [724] M. begins a new scene here. [725] H. inserts '_with_' before 'them.' But 'beares' means 'support, uphold.' [726] Printed _of_, ed. 1575. [727] This is said to Scapethryft, who is nowhere mentioned in the text. 'Fellow' (equivalent to 'comrade') was originally a courteous mode of addressing a servant, like the French _mon ami_. [728] Ill may he thrive; the phrase is common in the fourteenth century. Cf. also "y-the," _Hickscorner_, l .187. [729] Ed. 1575 _you_. [730] roost. [731] poultry. [732] God yield you, God reward you. Compare _Good den_, _God deven_ = good e'en. [733] moved, disturbed. [734] behave. [735] neck. [736] Perhaps we should read 'recetter,' for the sake of the rime. [737] saving your reverence. [738] as thou. [739] Toad; the same phrase occurs in Gosson, _Ephimerides of Phialo_ (Arber) 63, "I have neither replyed to the writer of this libel ... nor let him go scot free ... but poynted to the strawe where the padd lurkes." [740] Ed. 1575 gives this line to Chat. [741] cloaks or smothers. [742] what shall I call (it). Compare "_nicebecetur_," _R. D._ I. iv. 12. [743] 'cut' is often used in the sixteenth century as a term of abuse, especially for women. [744] Printed _mery_. [745] spit. [746] 'stoure,' uproar. Printed _scoure_. [747] served out, done for. [748] to 'leap at a daisy,' to be hanged. The allusion is to a story of a man who, when the noose was adjusted round his neck, leapt off with the words, "Have at yon daisy yonder" (_Pasquil's Jests_, 1604). [749] Ed. 1575 _where_. [750] Ed. 1575 _on_. APPENDIX The song at the beginning of the second act exists in an older and better version, which was printed by Dyce (from a Ms. in his own possession) in his edition of Skelton's _Works_, Vol. I, p. vii. It is not likely that the date of the composition is much older than the middle of the sixteenth century, and it may possibly be later. The following copy is taken from Dyce, but the punctuation and the capitals have been adjusted in accordance with the rules elsewhere adopted in the present work. Backe and syde goo bare, goo bare; Bothe hande and fote goo colde; But, belly, God sende the good ale inoughe, Whether hyt be newe or olde.