_It yearn'd my heart._ That is, grieved it. Compare _Henry V._ iv. 3. 26: "It yearns me not when men my garments wear," etc. =Page 150.=--_Jauncing._ Riding hard. _Musits._ Holes (in fence or hedge) for creeping through. The word, also spelled _muset_, is a diminutive of the obsolete _muse_, which means the same. _Amaze_ here means bewilder. _Wat._ A familiar name for a hare, as _Reynard_ for a fox, etc. =Page 151.=--_Mr. John R. Wise._ Compare page 26 above. =Page 155.=--The cut is a fac-simile of one in _The Booke of Falconrie_ (1575), by George Turbervile, or Turberville (1520?-1595?), an English poet, translator, and writer on hunting, hawking, etc. =Page 156.=--_Cotgrave._ Randle Cotgrave, an English lexicographer, who died about 1634. His _French-English Dictionary_ (first published in 1611) is still valuable in the study of French and English philology. =Page 159.=--_John Skelton._ An English scholar and poet, a protégé of Henry VII. and the tutor of Henry VIII. He was born about 1460, and probably died in 1529. "His rough wit and eccentric character made him the hero of a book of 'merry tales.'" =Page 160.=--_Some in their horse._ That is, their horses, the word here being plural. Plurals and possessives of nouns ending in _s_-sounds were often written without the additional syllable in the time of Shakespeare. Cf. _King John_, ii. 1. 289: "Sits on his horse back at mine hostess' door"; _Merchant of Venice_, iv. 1. 255: "Are there balance here to weigh the flesh?" etc. =Page 163.=--_William Kemp dancing the Morris._ Kemp was a favorite comic actor in the latter years of the reign of Elizabeth. He acted in some of Shakespeare's plays and in some of Ben Jonson's, when they were first put upon the stage. In 1599 he journeyed from London to Norwich, dancing the Morris all the way. The next year he published an account of the exploit, entitled _The Nine daies wonder_. The cut here is a fac-simile of one on the title-page of this pamphlet. It represents Kemp, with his attendant, Tom the Piper, playing on the pipe and tabor. They spent four weeks on the journey, nine days of which were occupied in the dancing. At Chelmsford the crowd assembled to receive them was so great that they were an hour in making their way through it to their lodgings. At this town "a maid not passing fourteen years of age" challenged Kemp to dance the Morris with her "in a great large room," and held out a whole hour, at the end of which he was "ready to lie down" from exhaustion. On another occasion a "lusty country lass" wanted to try her skill with him, and "footed it merrily to Melford, being a long mile." Between Bury and Thetford he performed the ten miles in three hours. On portions of the journey the roads were very bad, and his dancing was frequently interrupted by the hospitality or importunity of the people along the route. At Norwich he was received as an honored guest by the mayor of the city.